25 Most Recent SnowSk8r Blog Posts

My first snowskate video from 2002

Fri, Oct 30th 2009, 09:16 GMT

Just say "No" to Lift Operator BS

Mon, Dec 15th 2008, 06:17 GMT

I was at El Dora with Scharf on Saturday, and after a pretty full day of snowboarding, we took a few snow skate runs on the green lift. I've been personally snow skating this same lift for two years, and five days already this year. The first lift ride up, both operators commented on the skates, one said "Braver than I am" and the other just asked if they were fun, usual stuff.

Then, we were loading up for our third and final run of the day, when a new lift operator walks up and says "I can't let you guys load up with those things." Now, given the background I just gave, I genuinely thought he was just joking, and laughed and said "You're joking, right?" He kept a straight face and said "No." I pointed to the leash, like I have ever other time this problem has arose, but he said "That doesn't matter."

All this time, no one stopped the lift, so by now the lift was ready to pick us up. Scharf side-stepped it to talk to the guy, but I just sat down and started up the mountain. I looked back and saw Scharf talk to the guy as one chair passed him, then he got back in the loading area, and caught the next chair up. No one said anything to us at the top of the run, so we just did our run and left for the day.

As Scharf said afterwards, he should have just gotten on the lift. We both had leashes, we weren't violating resort rules and we knew it. He would have had to discuss it with a co-worker in asking someone to talk to us at the top, and in that process he surely found out he was in the wrong, not us.

Another snowskate video

Fri, Dec 12th 2008, 13:31 GMT

Chairlift Skeptics... A Snowskate Flick

Fri, Dec 12th 2008, 13:17 GMT

Courtesy of good old YouTube

Shut Up and Snowskate

Thu, Nov 20th 2008, 11:46 GMT

This video is a year or so old, but it's the best clip of snowskating I've found so far. Enjoy!

2007 Aspen Winter X Clip

Wed, Nov 19th 2008, 22:35 GMT

Snowskate or die....

Tue, Nov 18th 2008, 20:41 GMT

This is a test...[Nick, fix the pictures in ie]

SnowSk8r Back

Mon, Nov 10th 2008, 20:57 GMT

Well, after losing the domain, then buying it back. We're back in business. As well as our sister site, PowderPedia. Lot's of stuff doesn't work and is under construction right now, but most things should work decently well.

SnowSk8r Online

Tue, Jan 30th 2007, 01:41 GMT

SnowSk8r is a site dedicated to snow-skating, and is the first offspring of PedalBMX. This site runs off the same code and database as Pedal BMX. All members of Pedal are members of SnowSk8r and vice versa. This post is mainly to test the separation of blog posts.