McConkey

**Westbasinchutes** · 09-10-2013, 09:12 PM

Pioneer and Legend.

**LightRanger** · 09-10-2013, 09:16 PM

Originally Posted by mntlion

just got tickets for the Oct 5th show: anyone else going?

Quite likely. Will post when I know for sure.

**Bronic** · 10-08-2013, 10:09 PM

Fantastic film. Tells an amazing story about an amazing guy. Download it now. Its on itunes

**freebeerisgood** · 10-08-2013, 10:24 PM

Who else made it out to Squaw for the premier? What a turn out!
That film made me feel like like I needed to quit my office job, quit being a bitch and spend every day in the mountain.

**FJ62** · 10-09-2013, 09:48 AM

Saw the film at last night's Seattle showing. Loved it.

Biggest revelation: McConkey's dad and Zoolander's dad are basically the same guy.

**LightRanger** · 10-11-2013, 09:05 PM

If anybody has a line on a ticket to the screening at the Palace on Monday, this idiot neglected to buy one because he thought he was going to the show at Squaw last weekend. Fail. I know. PM me, please.

**TahoeJ** · 10-11-2013, 09:35 PM

The movie was really well done. I suspect at any screening there won't be a dry eye in the house.

The amount of old footage was pretty amazing and really brought the whole thing together. It's one thing to have people talking about way back when, it's another when there's actual video.

**ACH** · 10-11-2013, 09:59 PM

Attended the Seattle premier.
Packed house, with more familiar faces than I could shake a stick at.
The contrast between the entire hall laughing at Shane's antics and the silence
during which, you could have heard a pin drop in the auditorium, at one point near the end was telling.
We lost someone special, however this film is a fitting tribute and a reminder to explore the edge of our own frontiers.

**Hott Butt Mud** · 10-11-2013, 10:23 PM

Great film!

McConkey was, and is still, my favorite ski movie character. I grew up idolizing the man and it's been good to see him as a real person on film and not just a ski movie star. The movie does an excellent job of giving us a picture of his entire life's work.

**Skihuckster** · 10-12-2013, 09:33 PM

After watching that, became clear to me that Shane HAD to die the way he did. I mean, think how wrong it would be if he had a car wreck or cancer or missed a landing and ended up quadriplegic.

Like many of you, Shane has always been my inspiration for going bigger or partying harder or pushing limits further. But before this I had always assumed he lived a charmed life. This movie turned me upside down. That guy navigated some major bullshit growing up and earned everything he got and then some. Shane should be the poster child for anyone who struggles with a world that only gives a shit about a select few...fuck em, do what makes you happy. Then do it harder, faster, and naked.

**Chugachjed** · 10-13-2013, 09:07 PM

Why can I only buy it on iTunes??? I don't want a 3 pack.

**TahoeJ** · 10-14-2013, 11:19 AM

Originally Posted by Chugachjed

Why can I only buy it on iTunes??? I don't want a 3 pack.

First. World. Problems.

**Sinecure** · 10-14-2013, 02:22 PM

If anyone has a spare ticket (or two) for tonight's show in SF, please PM me. I'd love to go, but apparently sold out. I could pick it up on the Peninsula, east bay or at show.

**jtran10** · 10-14-2013, 04:15 PM

Watched it friday night ATT on demand. Really great movie. Inspiring and sad. A real picture into details of his life I wasn't familiar with. Watching it with a completely unfamiliar GF was fun too. She was blown away by everything he did.

Definitely recommend to anyone

**Njord** · 10-14-2013, 06:10 PM

My copy showed in the mail today... a must see for anyone that "grew-up" skiing in the past 20 years. MSP did a great job showing/honoring someone as inspiring as Shane.

Njord

**whyturn** · 10-14-2013, 06:15 PM

Very inspiring. You have one life, live it

**melotime** · 10-15-2013, 05:26 PM

What an epic tale with the most tragic of endings.

The historical footage and perspective is awesome and put together so well.

**The Duke of Hurl** · 10-16-2013, 12:01 AM

Gentlemen,

You've made a fitting tribute to one of our heros.

Thank you.

**media310** · 10-17-2013, 02:09 PM

MSI and Red Bull Media hit a homerun with this one. The Jackson, WY premiere last night was incredible! "His biggest fear was getting a 9-5 job" so awesome...

**Buster Highmen** · 03-26-2019, 11:00 AM

Hard to believe it's been 10 years.
Rage on Shane.

**Self Jupiter** · 03-26-2019, 11:44 AM

Legend. RIP

**GAPERsauraus REX** · 03-26-2019, 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by steepconcrete

He was my hero.

RIP

I'll never forget the day I got a poster tube in the mail from Shane, and it was loaded with a signed poster and a bunch of other cool stuff. Volant Machete era, summer of 2000. Poster is up in my kid's room now.

That summer I had tagged along with my dad at masters race camp in Mount Hood and spent alot of time with Shane's mom, Glen. She was awesome, and I think the "no way, you're Shane McConkey's mom!," gave away my admiration for Shane. Never asked for anything from him, but later in the summer all the stuff just showed up one day. Class act. RIP and love to his family.

**Long duc dong** · 03-26-2019, 12:15 PM

I will never forget my one encounter with him. It was mid-May in 2002, I lived in Tahoe at the time. Squaw had reduced their operations to just a few lifts, with Granite being the only one with good terrain. Like usual, I hiked Direct Chute on Granite Peak 4-5 times, then made slush turns down Corkscrew for a few laps when it softened up. Then I took Shirley up and hiked up the Palisades. It was a long hike from Shirley, I was going to hit Tube Chute, bank skier's right and use reverse traverse to access the Light Towers, ski down and hike out the bottom. I had been doing that regularly at that time.

When I was about halfway to the top of the Palisades I looked back and noticed another skier making the hike. He was a ways back from me. I kept looking back at him and noticed he was absolutely flying. He was hiking FAR faster than any human I had ever seen, and I was hiking Granite 4-5 times a day at that point so I thought I was in pretty good shape. I got to the top and relaxed for a bit. When he got there my jaw dropped, it was Shane McConkey, my greatest skiing hero. He had his chute and was going to ski base the Palisades on stealth, no one was aware. He was super cool and friendly, he just asked that I be a bit quiet about this. I dropped the Tube and hooked left to go to the Light Towers. I waited for a bit, but then decided I did not want to do anything to draw attention to what he was doing. I skied the Light Towers down and hiked out the bottom, still starstruck over seeing my hero. It was one of the most amazing moments from my time in Tahoe, and I will never forget it.