Thread: THE STORM - Stoke!!!

I've probably watched this new episode of Salomon Freeski TV a hundred times already and it still gives me that overwhelming urge to get out there and ski pow. Won't be long now!

Loved this episode - fun vibe to it.

"Ooooohhhhh it's so good!" <---- awesome!

Great episode.

So good! Keep em coming man! Hopefully the storms roll through soon.

Steezy d spin

Great episode!

As always, you guys are absolutely CRUSHING it.

This rocked my socks. So awesome!

Love the description on YouTube:
"We skiers are a strange breed. When most of society is running for cover, we find ourselves rejoicing at the sight of a cold low pressure system circling on the Satellite loop. We yearn for the feeling of cold powder snow blowing in our faces. Inside a swirling maelstrom of snowflakes, we feel most free."

Well said, SFTV. Well said. Super good stoke! SO pumped for winter!

Oh man that made me miss those gnarly mid-winter coast storms, where the tourists are all off the hill after an hour and a half, the lifts are running at half speed, you go from hot and sweaty at the end of a run to freezing your balls off on the lift, your gear is soaked, but it's the best ever and you can't drag yourself off the hill cause no one is out and the trees are going off!

Love it. To add some words to accompany the video..

When a storm comes and goes without me, I missed something. I missed the action, the process. I'm not a genuine witness. Everything's done. On those brilliant, clear powder days, it's too easy to get caught up in the show. The snow is there as if it were some personal talisman handed to you to prove how lucky you are. There's inevitably a moment when you look back on a slope of deep snow and see your tracks. An artistic satisfaction arises. Look what I did! Admiring your own signature across a winter mountain, it's hard not to feel a tincture of ownership. In a full-on storm, this misconception is less likely. The calligraphy disappears almost as quickly as you descend. Your tracks fill in before you can find them again. Without an artistic trace to gloat over, it's easier to remain in the moment, easier to supplicate and quiet the ego. In the splay of snowflakes sharp as throwing stars, it's easier to focus and be subsumed in prescience. Its easier to be reminded that the origin of the mountain goes back to all that swirling, cold dust, and that the granite composing it is itself the offspring of heaven's earliest, coldest thunder and lightning-just like you. No one knows better than a skier amidst a storm that nothing is solid. Everything moves. Everything slides-beginning to end-downhill: personalities, civilizations, snow.

Wayne K. Sheldrake
Instant Karma
p.112

This is the closest I can get to explaining to people who don't get it why I do what I do.

Storm days sure do put a big smile on my face. Only a few more weeks.

Thanks for the comments, fellas! The more you like, the more we get to keep doing it - so thanks again.

Well done Mike D! That is some stoke of the highest quality.

Incredible. Incredible. Incredible. Love Wayne's quote about contrasting storm versus bluebird pow. The storm is the most raw and pure mechanism to bury you in the moment.

that backflip to faceplant was ridiculous.

And people thought I was weird as a kid loving to ski in the cold, wintry storm. fools they are.

great vid and love this quote:

Originally Posted by rip

Love it. To add some words to accompany the video..

When a storm comes and goes without me, I missed something. I missed the action, the process. I'm not a genuine witness. Everything's done. On those brilliant, clear powder days, it's too easy to get caught up in the show. The snow is there as if it were some personal talisman handed to you to prove how lucky you are. There's inevitably a moment when you look back on a slope of deep snow and see your tracks. An artistic satisfaction arises. Look what I did! Admiring your own signature across a winter mountain, it's hard not to feel a tincture of ownership. In a full-on storm, this misconception is less likely. The calligraphy disappears almost as quickly as you descend. Your tracks fill in before you can find them again. Without an artistic trace to gloat over, it's easier to remain in the moment, easier to supplicate and quiet the ego. In the splay of snowflakes sharp as throwing stars, it's easier to focus and be subsumed in prescience. Its easier to be reminded that the origin of the mountain goes back to all that swirling, cold dust, and that the granite composing it is itself the offspring of heaven's earliest, coldest thunder and lightning-just like you. No one knows better than a skier amidst a storm that nothing is solid. Everything moves. Everything slides-beginning to end-downhill: personalities, civilizations, snow.

Wayne K. Sheldrake
Instant Karma
p.112

This is the closest I can get to explaining to people who don't get it why I do what I do.

damn. that was awesome!

giggity!

This left a huge smile on my face. Can't wait!

Finally, about to take the first turns of the season but can't wait for a big classic storm

Stoked everyone enjoyed!

On the 3x a day program w/ this video. Mike D thanks for killing it on both sides of the lens to keep bringing the stoke. You da man.

Nice job, Mike. Really nice!

Awesome piece - as usual. You guys are setting a high bar.
Is there some special technique to survive face-planting humongous back flips?

That just made getting through the rest of my shift much easier. Been snowing all day here in SLC! Thanksgiving can't come soon enough!

Yeah! Keep it comin guys!