Summer stoke: Skiing in Chile

[Abubob]

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[Abubob]

Hey look! Fresh from Chile. Dan is a great skier right? But he's a lousy cameraman. But who am I to judge?

 

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[Edd]

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Stating the obvious but that is some serious athleticism.

ScottyGenius...yup, I could get used to that.

 

[ScottySkis]

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Love it.

 

[snowmonster]

This is the double pole plant as demonstrated by the very French Remy Lecluse. Remy is one of the extreme skiers that died in the Manaslu slide recently. Dan Egan isn't even mentioned. At least I don't think he is.

Thanks for this.

In the Goodman book, there's a portion there where they talk about a turn that Brooks Dodge invented to ski in Tuckerman. He called it the "dipsy doodle" where he planted both poles then pivoted on the tips of his skis. If I recall, this was his preferred technique in the steeps and narrows when he needed to make precise turns. I could not envision it until I saw this video. If it works for Dodge, Lecluse and Egan, it must be worth trying.

Also, if you watch The Edge of Never, Anselme Baud spends a lot of time teaching the young Kye Peterson how to make precise turns in steep terrain. I haven't seen the film in while but it sounds like this.

 

[JimG.]

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This is a truly classic clip...the fracturing cornice. Love it!

 

[Abubob]

This is a truly classic clip...the fracturing cornice. Love it!

What I can't find, though, is what movie this is taken from. Maybe I should ask Dan.


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[SIKSKIER]

After refreshing my memory with that Warren Miller piece,I forgot how good was in his prime.Very impressive especially with the old skinny skis.He can ski any way he wants and who a I critic the pioneer?

 

[bigbog]

Dan is certainly a soild skier and has made a career calling himself extreme skiing pioneer.Having said that I have never been that impressed with his skiing style/technique.I skied with him a few times when he worked out of Cannon Mt and of course is a very good skier but it used to bug me watching him ski steep terrain and double pole plant on one side.

Think he might have developed a little bit of a hallucination about that breaking-cornice?....that would suddenly appear every so often wherever he skied?...lol.
Hey...I LOVED seeing that untracked stuff(with John cruising through the untracked), great stuff...thanks SIKSKIER! Can't get enough of that....

SteveD

 

[Abubob]

Thanks for this.

In the Goodman book, there's a portion there where they talk about a turn that Brooks Dodge invented to ski in Tuckerman. He called it the "dipsy doodle" where he planted both poles then pivoted on the tips of his skis. If I recall, this was his preferred technique in the steeps and narrows when he needed to make precise turns. I could not envision it until I saw this video. If it works for Dodge, Lecluse and Egan, it must be worth trying.

Also, if you watch The Edge of Never, Anselme Baud spends a lot of time teaching the young Kye Peterson how to make precise turns in steep terrain. I haven't seen the film in while but it sounds like this.

I've heard of the dipsy doodle but a loooooong time ago. The only thing I could picture before watching the Remy vid was a tip roll.

You mean this Edge of Never?

 

[snowmonster]

That's the one. If I remember correctly, there was a segment where Baud was teaching Kye Peterson a variation of the two pole turn. It's a much longer sequence than the snippet shown at 1:50 above.