Tour de France Skiing Version

[Yung_Jimmy]

I saw a commercial for the Tour de France coming up in July, and I don't give a fuck about cycling, but it got me thinking: Is it possible to do something similar to the tour de france for skiing? There is already some type of tour de ski but it's some wack cross country type skiing and it's not what I had in mind.

You obviously couldn't take it in one straight route because no mountain has enough skiable terrain for that, but you could break it up into stages of like 20 different mountains or something. Have the best big mountain skiers from all over the world come out and start the first race in like Chamonix or a similar place, and whoever comes in first in that race gets a timed head start at the next mountain, and then the next one and so on(maybe throw in some freestyle features for added time reductions and style points). And you could have the final stage on the north face of mount everest or some wild shit like that.

The only liability I really see is the injury risk, but it's obvious that a lot of skiers just don't care when it comes to that so it shouldn't be a huge problem. Funding would also be an issue but we could just get some rich motherfucker like Jon Olson or Waka flocka to sponsor us and it'd all be good.

So, do you really think something like this is possible? I'd love to see it happen anyway.

 

[a_burger]

if it's a race no one will bother to hit freestyle features let alone do anything cool on them (see mogul skiing for a perfect example)

I'd rather see them have a start and a finish with 50-100 miles of mountains in between, Chinese downhill rules apply

 

[ascent_studios]

Also I see it as a massive liability issue. A bunch of skiers plummeting down the mountain at insane speeds in un groomed terrain, Shit would get fucked up

 

[Rennis_Deynolds]

cross country probably has something like that

 

[50Kal]

Artic man

 

[Kretzschmar]

Skiing needs a King of the Road that is raw and wild like Thrasher's and not the watered down pussy shit that Freeskier did a few years ago.

 

[250r]

they used to have this unofficial race on blackcomb. i wish i had done it while it was still going. the guy in the video does top of blackcomb to village(5000ish vert) in 5 minutes

they also had a snowboard comp at telus fest that was a race with jumps in it where you got time taken off for doing tricks.

 

[Yung_Jimmy]

cross country probably has something like that

Yea it's called the Tour de Ski but it's retarded. At points in the race they're literally walking up hill with their skis on, not anything close to what I had in mind.

 

[Yung_Jimmy]

cross country probably has something like that

they used to have this unofficial race on blackcomb. i wish i had done it while it was still going. the guy in the video does top of blackcomb to village(5000ish vert) in 5 minutes

they also had a snowboard comp at telus fest that was a race with jumps in it where you got time taken off for doing tricks.

That's what I'm talking about. For example, that would count as 1 stage in the whole race, and they would do that again on like 20 other mountains.

 

[casey_cope]

I mean, Vail resorts put on the epic mix race where the first 10 people to ski every single Vail resorts "Epic" resort, would get a life time pass