The Endless Season of alpine skiing just passed 359 months

[PB]

Yeah yeah yeah ...... e'ry body makes nice and then y'all shit on the free heelers.

[Jonathan S.]

Yeah yeah yeah ...... e'ry body makes nice and then y'all shit on the free heelers.

Exactly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHHitXxH-us

[optics]

Nobody here would be posting anything negative were it not for how the OP has continued over the years to negatively

[Jonathan S.]

I'll post a link soon to a Google Sheet that solves all those equations.

[Endlessseason]

Lol. No escalation or debate here. When this topic came up 20 years ago, I remember it was the first time some people ever realized that alpine (downhill) skiing is distinct from nordic (cross-country), which is distinct from telemark.
In the past 30 years, in everything written or reported about my venture, it's described as the "longest documented alpine, or downhill, ski streak." That it meant 'on snow' seemed too obvious to have to go out of my way to specify.
Whether Colorado Tom has a longer telemark streak or not doesn't affect me because mine is alpine.
Whether or not Gordon has more months on alpine gear doesn't affect my streak, because not all of his months are on snow. He chooses to include skiing on plastic bristle mats. That's his call, but again, it makes my streak distinct from his because all my months are on mountain snow.
I've never claimed to have the longest "ski" streak. But I do, in fact, have the longest all alpine/downhill snow-skiing streak.

[Buster Highmen]

All the divisive didactics just makes me sad. It's a nice achievement, some performance art. Just leave it like that.

[Endlessseason]

All the divisive didactics just makes me sad. It's a nice achievement, some performance art. Just leave it like that.

Buster, very enlightened comment. I just removed a paragraph of my post that could potentially sound as though I have something against tele. I don't.

[telefreewasatch]

Buster, very enlightened comment. I just removed a paragraph of my post that could potentially sound as though I have something against tele. I don't.

Speak for yourself!
Nice run. May it continue a lot longer.

[skiJ]

All the divisive didactics just makes me sad. It's a nice achievement, some performance art. Just leave it like that.

+2 go get 'em, Endless-

skiJ

[Jonathan S.]

[...] I just removed a paragraph of my post that could potentially sound as though I have something against tele. I don't.

Aww, come on, where's the fun in that!
(I go so far in my tele antagonism as to waste weeks of my life each season and thousands of dollars to organize a ski race series that embarrasses the few telemarkers who haven't gotten the memo on that. Well, okay, that's not the goal, but it is an ancillary benefit. Even better is when some of them show up yet see the folly of their ways and convert!)

However, even I will admit (under some duress) that if a telemarker and I ascend the same slope (whether via mechanized means, skinning, or hiking), then ski down the same snow-covered mountain together making turns, we're doing the same thing ... although the telemarker is doing it far worse.
(Am I being sufficient antagonist toward tele? If not, I can try harder!)

But if the distinction is that this is the longest monthly non-telemark-turning-down-a-mountain ski streak ... well, we'd have to survey all the TAY'ers with over 30 years.
The ones I've skied with were not telemarkers. But possible that the early years of their streaks including a few months accomplished via tele.
Given that the TAY list is no longer publicly maintained, pretty much impossible to determine now.

Lol. No escalation or debate here. When this topic came up 20 years ago, I remember it was the first time some people ever realized that alpine (downhill) skiing is distinct from nordic (cross-country), which is distinct from telemark.

I'd be surprised if people two decades ago on PowderMag forums didn't know the distinction between downhill skiing vs cross-country skiing.
Ditto for people not being aware of downhill skiing via not parallel turns on fixed-heel gear but instead telemark turns on telemark gear.
But then again, life is full of surprises -- especially how some skiers still persist with telemark!

Whether or not Gordon has more months on alpine gear doesn't affect my streak, because not all of his months are on snow. He chooses to include skiing on plastic bristle mats.

Okay, I didn't know that, as he didn't mention it during our discussion. If so, agreed, that doesn't count, as the whole point of such an impressive streak is to being chasing impermanent snow around the continent (or globe).
Especially since some employees at the U.K. "dry" slopes must have skied there every month since the places first opened.

[Core Shot]

Endless seems to have provenance

You can’t sell an antique or historical item without a record of who owned it.
This obsessed skier has written logs of every ski run.
Does anyone else have that?

I say he wins the contest.
Or at least ocd respect.

[Endlessseason]

I'd be surprised if people two decades ago on PowderMag forums didn't know the distinction between downhill skiing vs cross-country skiing.

I'd be surprised too if that were the case. Just as I used to do back then, you can see that I wrote cross-country and downhill in parentheses. As references. That's because most skiers DO know what those are. Where word comprehension used to get a little muddled, and still does, judging by a couple comments even in this thread, is with the terms Nordic, Alpine and Telemark.

[skinipenem]

Endless seems to have provenance

You can’t sell an antique or historical item without a record of who owned it.
This obsessed skier has written logs of every ski run.
Does anyone else have that?

I say he wins the contest.
Or at least ocd respect.

I agree.

Mad props Endless. Very cool endeavor.

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[jackstraw]

However, even I will admit (under some duress) that if a telemarker and I ascend the same slope (whether via mechanized means, skinning, or hiking), then ski down the same snow-covered mountain together making turns, we're doing the same thing ... although the telemarker is doing it far worse.
(Am I being sufficient antagonist toward tele? If not, I can try harder!)

Umm, the thing is I've seen you ski and you are unequivocally wrong. You're very fast on the way up, but good gawd it's ugly on the down. Keep practicing!

[PNWbrit]

Umm, the thing is I've seen you ski and you are unequivocally wrong. You're very fast on the way up, but good gawd it's ugly on the down. Keep practicing!

Priceless.

[Jonathan S.]

Umm, the thing is I've seen you ski and you are unequivocally wrong. You're very fast on the way up, but good gawd it's ugly on the down. Keep practicing!

You're joking, right?
Otherwise, I'll start posting pictures of myself and let the peanut gallery post judgement.

[telefreewasatch]

Pics or it didn't happen...

[Jonathan S.]

Priceless.

Priceless indeed -- both the various outings from which I culled the following pictures, and the mere concept of a telemarker mocking the downhill skiing abilities of a former NCAA alpine ski racing coach.

Pics or it didn't happen...

It definitely happened.

[byates1]

welp that settles it. sheffy is the best skier on the mountain.

[PB]

..... who likes to ski with his mouth open
NTTAWWT

[dookeyXXX]

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It's been a few years since I posted a ski streak update, but this might be of interest...
The day before yesterday, I finished my 359th straight month of downhill skiing. I once wondered if I'd ever have a chance to ski in the month of August heh. Tuesday I hiked to the top of Devil's Castle at Alta, clicked into my alpine bindings and answered my much younger self by skiing my thirtieth August in a row.
28 days from now, on the Palmer Snowfield of Mt Hood in Oregon, 30 consecutive years of alpine skiing at least once every single month of every single year will be complete. Three decades of skiing non-stop.
Yeeeehaaawwww!!

Much Respect!

I may actually be more impressed that you have made it 30 years without any streak ending injuries…

[NW_SKIER]

Priceless indeed -- both the various outings from which I culled the following pictures, and the mere concept of a telemarker mocking the downhill skiing abilities of a former NCAA alpine ski racing coach.



It definitely happened.

I don't know. Looks like your arms are flailing a bit.

[Jonathan S.]

welp that settles it. sheffy is the best skier on the mountain.

Not if you come back East this winter!
(Or at any of the skimo races I organize.)

[Jonathan S.]

..... who likes to ski with his mouth open
NTTAWWT

At a certain threshold on the FunOMeter, mouth-wide-open excitement is mandatory.

[powdrhound]

..... who likes to ski with his mouth open
NTTAWWT

Anyone who wants more air flow than their nose alone allows?
Or wants to push their humid breath away from their glasses or goggles?