VIDEO: First Ever Backflip Pond Crossing Last spring, Ben Pichotti became the first person to ever successfully complete a 360º pond crossing at the Cushing Crossing at Squaw Valley, USA. This year, a skier successfully completed a backflip pond crossing at the Alyeska pond crossing. It does make us wonder what’s next? Rodeo flip pond crossing? 720º pond crossing? Pond crossings very well may likely take on a life of their own and start catering to tricks and build better jumps as this one in Alyeska had. We’ll see. A skier successfully completed a backflip pond crossing […] SnowBrains | April 16, 2015 0 Comments
Mammoth’s Closing Day: Bikini Skiing, Snowball Fight Parties, Pond Crossing, & Sluffalanches… Today was Mammoth’s closing day. Girls were in Bikinis, people were in costumes, and all we did was train-ski and start sluffalanches and do pond crossings at the base of Chair 23. The skiing was great from start to finish today. The last gondola was at 2pm and it transported you to a bizarre snowball fight-BBQ-last run of the year party. […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | May 26, 2014 4 Comments
1st Ever 360º Pond Crossing | April 12th, Squaw Valley, USA skip to 2:41 to see Ben huck his 360 to full pond crossing Squaw Valley held its annual pond crossing on April 12th, 2014. Squaw was the first place to ever do a pond crossing and it has been imitated at ski resorts all over North America. Ben Paciotti was the first to ever do a 360 pond crossing and it was pretty impressive. We don’t think too many people will ever pull this off successfully. Ben is a pond crossing master not to be taken lightly. […] SnowBrains | April 16, 2014 2 Comments
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