Paddy O'Connell

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Find the fun...even if it means being a little stupid. 📷: @timkemple • This is merely a taste of what happens when a bad idea becomes the best decision ever. Walking a bajillion miles on the White Rim Trail in Canyonlands NP in July when temps hit 110 degrees ain't too smart. But stills like this make you seem like a genius for saying, "Yeah, sure. I'm dumb enough to be tough enough for that." I'm absolutely crushed physically, my feet look like ground beef, and I'm basically a giant bumbling sunburnt mustached bug bite man-child at the moment. But I don't think my smile has ever been as big, nor my heart as full following an adventure. It was physically and mentally demanding, sure, but the hardest part was not peeing my pants from laughter. Plus, it was just a smidge pretty out there. • Thank you to all involved. I can't wait to see the art that comes from this. So much love to ya. Until the next wag baggin, foot stompin, suffer/giggle fest, here's to you all. You're my kind of crazy. • @camp4collective @willsaundersphoto @scubastevie @brettlowell @flaneur.photographer @laurentaylorsteele @malone.phillips @columbia1938 and the man with the plan, THE @timkemple

Paddy-deep. • This is one of my favorite turns ever, made during the greatest powder experience of my life. Cultural submersion in Japanuary 2016 with @sassglobaltravel. I like to look at it on summer days like today, when I can hear myself sweating. Ew, it's gross. • 📷: @lucasmoorephoto (ska-doosh) #WigglesAndJiggles

That one time I skied away from a T-Rex but everything was cool and ok because the snow conditions were blower and I wasn't as flippin' hot as I am right now. Dear Summer, c'mon, bro! (T-Rex by @dressersix) #WigglesAndJiggles

Some ski bum dreams do come true! • During my first year on patrol I scrounged together enough mullah to finagle a deal with Pete Wagner for a pair of skis in his showroom. With a pair of @wagnerskis on my feet and a cross on my back, I felt that I finally earned entry into the Telluride Tribe. Today, I picked up a pair of skis that Pete and I designed together, specifically for my personality and style, and that my sister @kittyoc and her soon to be hubby @lan.2k created top sheet art for (The Phoenix Feather Quill and Irish knots). I carry Telluride and my family in my heart during everything I do. Now, Wagner and my lineage will carry me into the depths and the magic of the turn. • Mind = blown, heart = exploded! • So much love and gratitude to the @wagnerskis crew and to my sister and LAN. Whoops-hoops-n-hollers coming soon! • #WigglesAndJiggles

"Nothin’ is more irresistible than booty poppin’ ski pants and a goggle-tanned face covered in wing sauce." • I've teamed up with @warrenmillerent for a new article series, SKI TIPS & WISE CRACKS, where I'll be exploring what ski bums do during not winter. Check out the first article, How To Stay In Apres Ski Shape This Summer. LINK IN PROFILE!!! • #WigglesAndJiggles • Big thank to @jessi_luwho for making it happen!

Oh, river trips, I love how you bring out the weird in us. Thanks @yeti, @backbonemedia, and @oars_rafting for a rockin' good time in Hells Canyon. #WigglesAndJiggles

When dirtbaggery meets early 90s rap video. Fly to the put in for a 3 day float in Hells Canyon? Sure, I guess. Thanks @yeti! #WigglesAndJiggles 📷: @thach_dog

He get it from his Poppa... Legend has it that in 1984 a fur fell from Dozza Boy O'Connell's lip caterpillar and grew to become a magnificent mouth brow and that soup strainer later grew a jiggly human who dug doin' thangs in them mountains... Thanks for teaching me the ways of the Stache, Dozza. #DadStache #WigglesAndJiggles

By personal growth, @anya_miller means expansion of the fuzzy bagel zone, aka the navel wiggle, aka the ninja jiggle. Thanks fer duh drawring, eh, Anya! (Or whatever you Canadians say) #WigglesAndJiggles

June 10, 2017. 'Cause it ain't over! This photo brought to you by the power of apple fritters. 📷: @wanderinwardell #WigglesAndJiggles

I work for Mr. Tunstall as a regulator. I regulate any stealing of his property. I'm damn good too! Mr. Tunstall's got a soft spot for runaways, derelicts, vagrant types. But you can't be any geek off the street, gotta be handy with the steel, if you know what I mean, earn your keep...and by steel I mean doughnuts. Thanks for makin' me look old timey as effffff, @thealchemistress! #WigglesAndJiggles #Telluride

This did not happen today, but I'm havin' that same a-ok, super happy feelin today. Hi5s, friends! #WigglesAndJiggles

Keepin' 'em zip tied through the super fun punchy slush yesterday with @backbonemedia and @blackdiamond. 📷: @oneill_dm Not pictured: @xxxanthe @johndicuollo @tucker_vest @bitzofliz and a lot of snacks. If you ski, apple fritters are equal to like, 500 push-ups. Science. #WigglesAndJiggles

May 31, 2017: still ski season. Just puttin' out the vibe on an Indy Pass wiggle, jiggle, & giggle mission this morn. 📷: @oneill_dm #WigglesAndJiggles Thanks @xxxanthe, @johndicuollo, @backbonemedia, and @blackdiamond for a great excuse to eat apple fritters on a mountain. Skiing = hungry

Who wants to ski frozen mank with beautiful views at 6am?! Friends who don't mind whiffing on a mission in order to eat coffee cake, salami, and cheese on top of Bridal Veil after a bushwhacking zig when we should have zagged, that's who. 📷: @semi_rad (@fitzcahall) #WigglesAndJiggles #Telluride

Oh, just me and my stache stunt double @_jhyoung_ putting the vibe out at @mountainfilm. Adventure films in Telluride are neat. Twinning facial hair is neaterest. #WigglesAndJiggles #Telluride 📷: @bitchin_camaro

May 19, 2017: celebrating 33 years on this planet and 4 years of recovery today with a lil pow skiing in one of my favorite places in the universe. Scientists and medical professionals would describe my attitude as super duper f-wording grateful and stoked to the max. Thank you and thank you and thank you and thank you. Video and commentary by the flying fruit, Mango himself. #WigglesAndJiggles #Gratitude #Telluride #MyHeartMightExplode

I'm currently writing about days like this (and wanting days like this to be current). BREAKING NEWS: I really like skiing. That is all. #WigglesAndJiggles

Oh, just a hot shave in a huge logged structure. I'm really getting into this rugged elegance lifestyle. Thanks #HotelTacoma and @toyotausa for keeping me muddy, well groomed, and pampered in a flannel. Where's my vanilla latte?! 📷: the uber talented @dylanvanweelden (check him out, bro!) #WigglesAndJiggles

Flannels and road trip songs on kdnk.org right now. Afternoon Delight with Barn Darlington and PaddyO has returned! Tune in now. #WigglesAndJiggles

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