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SnowBrains Podcast #36 | Scot Schmidt – The Original Freeskier

Brought to you by Ikon Pass: My guest today is the legendary Scot Schmidt: Scot was the very 1st professional freeskier in North America. He created the genre, and he did it with style. Scot’s intro into the ski industry was him dropping a 100’ cliff at Squaw Valley Palisades Tahoe, California in the 1983 Warren Miller Ski Movie, and […]

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Podcast | March 15, 2022
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VIDEO: “The History of Freeskiing”

The guy’s voice in this video is abrasive. The information that the video displays is quite good. Freeskiing has come a long, long way. From essentially not having an identity at all, to Scot Schmidt, to Shane McConkey, to Fat Skis, to Rockered Skis, to Double Corks, to the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. That’s the definition of progression. Where it will go from here, is tough to predict. We know about triple corks, we know about pushing Alaska lines even further, […]

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Miles Clark | November 18, 2013
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Scot Schmidt Interview on Shane McConkey

Powder Magazine brings us their 2nd installation of ICONS featuring Scot Schmidt talking about Shane McConkey. “In episode four of ICONS – an exclusive series featuring renowned athletes from a variety of sports talking about the influence of Shane McConkey – we feature the extreme skiing master himself, Scot Schmidt. Produced by Red Bull Media House, ICONS features outtakes from the feature biopic “McConkey,” which premiered […]

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Scot Schmidt Avalanche Interview: “I Got My Ass Handed to Me By a Massive Avalanche”

“I didn’t know anything about big mountains. I basically got my ass handed to me by a massive slide and I was lucky to have walked away from it. That experience alone put me on a whole different path. If I hadn’t have had that experience I wouldn’t have been as cautious and as intuitive and as conscious.” – Scot Schmidt Robb Gaffney […]

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