Friday Fun: How To Get First Chair at Squaw Valley, CA with Shane McConkey In this video, Shane murders and maims about 8 people in order to get first chair at Squaw with his Volant Machete skis. This really shows how cool Volant was. They gave Shane full creative freedom with designing skis (Volant Spatula was the first reverse camber, reverse sidecut ski) and even creating their commercials. Not many ski […] Friday Fun SnowBrains | November 6, 2020 3 Comments
Sherry McConkey Begs Truckee Town Council to Do Something About Tourists Trashing Lake Tahoe, CA Sherry McConkey has joined the campaign asking local authorities, who are being accused of not doing enough about the disruption caused by the influx of tourists to Lake Tahoe, CA hotspots, to step up and make a difference. Many long-time Lake Tahoe residents believe the appropriate authorities are not properly handling tourism and the traffic issues that coincide, and that […] SnowBrains | August 17, 2020 18 Comments
Helping the Community: Why I’m Auctioning Off My Pair of Shane McConkey Tribute Pontoons View this post on Instagram A post shared by Adam U (@adamcu280) Professional skier, marine biologist and musician Adam Ãœ is trying to be the change he wants to see in the world. Related: SkiDUCK: Skiing & Snowboarding for Disadvantaged & Underprivileged Children & Older Kids That’s why the Mt. Baker, Washington local is auctioning off his limited edition pair […] Industry News SnowBrains | June 19, 2020 0 Comments
McConkey Features in List of Greatest Sports Documentaries of All-Time Esquire UK have put together a list of what they think are the greatest sports documentaries of all time. Why have we shared it with you? Because it includes one of our favorite documentaries of all time, featuring one of the best skiers of all time, Shane McConkey. Related: GNAR: The Legacy of Shane McConkey Compiled by a British magazine, soccer […] SnowBrains | June 12, 2020 0 Comments
VIDEO: Full Movie – CLAIM: The Greatest Ski Movie EVER! Featuring Shane McConkey and Sean Pettit MSP brings its award-winning approach to the table with CLAIM, The Greatest Ski Movie… EVER! Related: GNAR: The Legacy of Shane McConkey This time poking fun at themselves and the industry as a whole. Claim features several longtime MSP all-stars as well as newcomers including Sean Pettit. Featured Video SnowBrains | June 5, 2020 0 Comments
GNAR: The Legacy of Shane McConkey Shane McConkey will forever be remembered as one of the greats of freestyle skiing, but today his legacy lives on not only in his skiing but also in the game of GNAR, his brainchild with Robb Gaffney, the author of Squallywood, the unofficial guide detailing exactly how to shred all the best lines in Squaw Valley Ski Resort, CA. GNAR, […] Laughs Lucy Ferneyhough | May 2, 2020 2 Comments
Shane McConkey’s Wife & Daughter Lives Saved By Carbon Monoxide Detector Free skiing visionary Shane McConkey’s (1969-2009) wife and daughter, Sherry and Ayla, were saved last night by their carbon monoxide detection system in their home. Sherry, who posted on Instagram today about what had happened, said her carbon monoxide detector went off in her home late last night. She said that that the detector was old, and may have been […] Industry News SnowBrains | December 20, 2019 0 Comments
Shane McConkey: Free to Ski “Whether it was steep, extreme descent or new freestyle, what we were doing was freeskiing, free to ski our own style on our own terms” –Â Shane McConkey There are so many words said about Shane. Â There is practically no ski or outdoor magazine, which hasn’t written about Shane, but when it comes to the legend it seems like it’s never […] Featured Article Claire Weiss | August 28, 2019 0 Comments