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Tahoe Backcountry Report: Skiing in a Video Game… Digitized, Overly Smooth, Fake Texture Snow in Made-Up Terrain

Report from December 20, 2021 The snow out there skied like a video game… It looked digitized, overly smooth, fakely textured, made-up terrain. It skied like… well, it’s skied weird as hell. Chalky, powdery, smooth, predictable on right turns. Breakable crust, catchy, hooky, scary on left turns. The terrain was fantastical:  fake rock spires, seam-ripping spines, perfectly hewn planer faces, […]

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Miles Clark | December 21, 2021
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