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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 Ü 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 […]

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SnowBrains | June 19, 2020
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VIDEO: Full Movie – CLAIM: The Greatest Ski Movie EVER! Featuring Shane McConkey and Sean Pettit

SnowBrains | June 5, 2020
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GNAR: The Legacy of Shane McConkey

Use GNAR to compete with your friends while skiing.

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, […]

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Lucy Ferneyhough | May 2, 2020
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Shane McConkey’s Wife & Daughter Lives Saved By Carbon Monoxide Detector

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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 […]

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SnowBrains | December 20, 2019
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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” – Shane McConkey There are so many words said about Shane.  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 […]

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Claire Weiss | August 28, 2019
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VIDEO: Shane McConkey Squeezes Through Tight Line on Squaw Valley’s Illegal “Tram Face”

“One of the wildest things about this legendary line (now called Sluiceway) is that Shane never scouted it. We’d hiked up it in the summer and he obviously had a general idea how it played out, but when I went to scout it the afternoon prior to shooting, he couldn’t join me. He skinned up in the darkness of early […]

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SnowBrains | August 14, 2019
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VIDEO: Matthias Giraud Performs Naked Ski-BASE Jump Dedicated to Shane McConkey

Steven Agar | July 1, 2019
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Why Shane McConkey & Scott Gaffney Were Great Together | Scott Gaffney Interview:

SnowBrains | July 30, 2018
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