Found this a few months ago.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OH6WJsvCWA4&feature=shared
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Found this a few months ago.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OH6WJsvCWA4&feature=shared
We were in Chamonix a few years ago outside the guide office and someone mentioned Blizzard of Ahs and Glenn, and Glenn walked by.(Same trip waiting for the Tram at Grandes Montets --"see that guy--he won the FWT/ See that woman--she won an Olympic medal in the 50's." Interesting place, Chamonix)
Every time I see him post on Instagram, he makes me smile. He is truly one of a kind. Maybe one day I'll actually meet him.
Just listened to a couple year old Powell Movement podcast with Plake. Good history including his outlaw days crammed into an hour. Worth a listen. Just missed him at three different ski areas by a day or two each last week. Would have been cool to take a few laps with the posse on my home hills. Met him 20 or so years ago at Kirkwood and he was a super cool and gracious guy to chat with for the few minutes I got to.
Nobody isn't posting in this thread. Too bad or he would learn all about Glen Plake.
Couldn’t help but notice that GP was rocking his PSIA pin.
My buddy took his level 2 exam with Plake. They both passed.
I remember.
Dude is a legend.
Love that he's still skiing and touring around.
It's like he's still a ski bum.
did he score a clipped ticket? if so, ya know hes still bumming it…
Similar story to old goat. Was in chamonix a few years ago hanging in the courtyard in front of the aiguille du midi after a day of skiing and Plake walks by with a new pair of skis he's taking to Concept to get mounted. We talked for a few minutes, mentioned that we had met him a bunch of years ago when he was doing his tour stopping at small east coast ski areas and shops. During that tour, I was working at a shop at the time and got to hang with him for a while there, then my brother ended up taking some park laps with him and was trying to teach him how to 270 onto a rail or something. The guy's stoke for skiing is eternal. A few of us have also ended up getting some shop work done at Concept, cause if they're good enough for Plake, then they're probably a shop worth supporting.
It's nice he turned around because he was pretty much a full douchebag skier elitist in the late 80's early 90's.
I skied the Valle Blanche with him 2 winters ago in Cham and he was an absolute legend of a human being. He's buddies with our guide and showed up last minute to join us. Enjoyed some sausage & cheese with him on the train ride back to town and hung out a bit with him and Kim later in the trip. One of the more gracious guys in the space I've ever met.
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I got to ski with Plake when he came to my rinky dink place in Ohio on his Down Home Tour when I was a freshman in HS. As someone mentioned upthread, he is infectous with his laugh and love for skiing.
Long live Plake!
Sounds like Plake had the royal tour of Bogus Basin. Based on what the general manager of Bogus said and the crew I hang with up there, they gave him a fun tour of all of our brush cuts and stashes. Too bad I missed out on ripping around with him that day. Certainly gave some friends of mine a good ego boost considering what one of them went through a number of years ago after losing his arm after a moto crash.
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love how he makes every turn FuN ;)
Plake was never a douche elitist. If anything— he was among the first to live the dream in this industry. Hell— he created a new industry.
Fact— there is no Seth Morrison or Shane McConkey without Plake.
Double fact.
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my son was Glen Plake for Halloween once
I was thinking about Glen today when I was skiing his signature model Elan Ripstick Tour 104 - great ski!
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I sell them at the shop - not everyone knows who I’m talking about when I say “Glen Plake can’t be wrong”
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this pair looks sweet with the orange ATK FR 15 Evo
I have the Ripstick 106, and was thinking the tour 104 would be the perfect complement. Duh?
it’s pretty sweet
Sheet, if had a nickle for every time I gave someone a poor impression, acted like a dumb ass or anything else like that I'd be rich! the best part about growing old is finally growing up!Quote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
I saw a clip from today of Glen doing a perfect Lincoln loop in the park at some little midwest or east coast ski hill. Isn't he like 60 now? That was sick.
Paying 250 bucks a day to ski at the bigger resorts makes me kinda wanna do a little small resort tour like Glen does.
This is the way^^. Last resort experience was Alta in twenty and it turned me off on the popular resort scene. I’ll give my money to independent hills.
Meh. I love big hills. I cannot lie. But you need a season pass or an ikon or epic.
Small hills are fun. But boring as hell. That’s when I learned to tele. Could have wonged or plaked instead.
You’re so kore. Aren’t you a flatlander?
Free invite to Core Shot to come to Silver Mtn Idaho next year when the conditions are good. You can chase me my crew around for a day or two. Guarantee you won’t be bored. I’ve skied a ton of smaller hills and can’t say i’ve been bored, unless conditions have a guy stuck on a couple runs. Hell, I’ve been bored at Big Sky when not much was open early season.
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Define small hills
Unless you grew up in the Midwest you have No idea how small small can be.
Cheers to those of you out west that have decent vert and terrain for fair prices.
Well I was talking independents not just small. Small to me is a place like Anthony Lakes, Pomerelle, Soldier etc…
I realize that you could get bored on the stuff in the Midwest but that’s not the context I thought we were discussing.
There’s great skiing at the larger independents, White Pass, Mission, Forty Nine Silver, Bogus, etc etc. Look at the Indy Pass and Powder Collective. There’s great skiing all over the West at independent ski areas.
^^^ agree 100%
My comment about small was in the context of another posters comment about plake going cross country to small areas. The west has amazing Indy mountains. May they long exist. But Midwest small is really really really small. .
PS. Skiing small is still better than not skiing.
But 210-600 vert is tough to be entertained on if you have gone bigger. I don’t care how much pow drops. It’s still small vert. But anyone that can make the best out of it and smile has mad respect from me. Hat tip to plake.
I used to travel to every ski area in Idaho to film for the Idaho Ski Area Association. It was a blast at those small hills. Many are strictly run by local volunteers and they do it for the love of skiing. The skiing wasnt always great but the people around you are salt of the earth when it comes to the sport. I wouldnt want to ski any of them on a full time basis but taking a tour of a number of them is well worth it and a lot of fun.
Along the lines of the recent discussion on this page, a buddy of mine just got this article published in skimag. Stoked for him!
https://www.skimag.com/adventure/ski...wder-triangle/
Elitist douchebag = complaining that your hill is too small. Question- What's the best ski day of your life?Plake's answer: "The last day I skied." If you know, you know.
SKI E O
Plake's front plate. I chuckled.
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Maybe I share Plake's mindset because I grew up spending hours and days skiing on small midwest bumps around the Great Lakes, but if you ask me, the day you pass up skiing because your only option is too small, or too boring, then that is the day when you have lost the entire point of skiing.
Stenmark grew up skiing a tiny bump too. Nobody remembers him either
It’s probably why Core Shot lives in flyover land now, lost his skiing soul