Blast from the past, from a hill near you! Where are they now?

**FrankZappa** · 07-22-2006, 12:57 PM

The other day when I was compiling stuff for the PM Chronology thread I found this old article. Where it came from I have no idea. Magazine, newspaper... beats me. - Anybody out there remember?

It had been 'bout 40 years since skiin' had started up here in the U.S. when it was published, and I think we must be pushin' another 35 years now. I really enjoyed the content, and some of the quotes are classic.

These ski bums are from all over the country, and appearantly my mom had met a few here and there (ref. the notes). It must have been a smaller world back then.

OBernhardfranz, take note, I think it was you asking about the "Jet turn" a few months back. The memory of that hippie doin' the "Superjet turn" was always hidin' out in the back of my mind after first seein' that pic as a young teenager. - and the quote: "...some buddies learned this stunt on mescaline: "You hear music and when you jump man, you stay up a long, long time."" - too classic! I'm bettin' there's a pair of Jetstix hidin' under those bluejeans.

So, Does anybody know/remember any of these old ski bums? Where are they now?

Well, enjoy & sorry 'bout the torn/missing corners.

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**FrankZappa** · 07-22-2006, 12:58 PM

Where are they now? Part II

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**FrankZappa** · 07-22-2006, 01:00 PM

Where are they now? Part III

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That it.

Later...

**P_McPoser** · 07-22-2006, 01:11 PM

That's cool

**Dr. Send** · 07-22-2006, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by FrankZappa

How can you even ride that far in the backseat? It doesn't seem physically possible.

**FrankZappa** · 07-22-2006, 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by Dr. Send

How can you even ride that far in the backseat? It doesn't seem physically possible.

Use Jet Stix. Turn form = "Jet turn". it was a turn that was around for a lil' while in the 70's.

**splat** · 07-22-2006, 04:41 PM

That's how I learned to ski. And when you went straight up the side of a Volkswagen-sized mogul, you'd plant your pole on the top of it, rocket your skis up into the air (if you did it well, it was like a one-armed handstand on your pole) and pivot the turn on your pole. It was a different ski world then.

**The AD** · 07-22-2006, 04:57 PM

Oh man, this girl needs some sunscreen. I bet her face looks like an old catcher's mitt today.

**Toby** · 07-23-2006, 12:00 AM

^ Yeah, that's a before/after shot. That's her on the right, 20 years later.

**Rasputin** · 07-23-2006, 02:11 AM

Originally Posted by splat

you'd plant your pole on the top of it, rocket your skis up into the air (if you did it well, it was like a one-armed handstand on your pole) and pivot the turn on your pole.

Geez, I like doing those turns in moguls, I must be an anachronism.

**MacDaddy** · 07-25-2006, 03:57 PM

Originally Posted by Dr. Send

How can you even ride that far in the backseat? It doesn't seem physically possible.

I can! I do!
I suck! but I ski fast until I crash!

**iceman** · 07-25-2006, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by MacDaddy

I can! I do!
I suck! but I ski fast until I crash!

Yet you have 2222 posts, an auspicious number. Something must be working right.

**Art Shirk** · 07-25-2006, 04:47 PM

Check Biebl dishing about mescaline on page two. New hero.

**mtnbikerskierchick** · 07-25-2006, 05:00 PM

Classic, Zappa, Classic! Thanks for all the old articles and pics! It's been a blast looking at all this stuff!

**Hacksaw** · 07-26-2006, 08:28 AM

Cool photos Tom.

**Buster Highmen** · 07-26-2006, 08:46 AM

Originally Posted by FrankZappa

Anybody out there remember?
...

This came from a Sports Illustrated article I'm pretty sure. I remember Biebl's remarks since I was floating in similar spaces.

**FrankZappa** · 07-26-2006, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by Buster Highmen

This came from a Sports Illustrated article I'm pretty sure. I remember Biebl's remarks since I was floating in similar spaces.

Thanks Buster. Thats what I was thinkin' after talkin' to the "head pack-rat" (mom) in the family the other day.
And circa must have been 1970 after various date/age calculations.

**irul&ublo** · 07-26-2006, 11:39 AM

**FrankZappa** · 07-26-2006, 11:55 AM

Good one irul. Got it a lil' bigger (please)?
Meh on the binders... but I dig the sticks (note my user title)

**irul&ublo** · 07-26-2006, 12:00 PM

Don't have it any bigger...only photo of Airborne Eddie I could find.

I saw Wayne Wong at Alpine this year. He was skiing with a group that looked like they hired him for the day. He was wearing a fartbag.

**Hacksaw** · 07-26-2006, 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by FrankZappa

Good one irul. Got it a lil' bigger (please)?
Meh on the binders... but I dig the sticks (note my user title)

Did you notice the MV2 skis? I still have a set in my rack. Sadly, they don't have Besser bindings, only Markers....

**fiddler** · 07-26-2006, 01:44 PM

Originally Posted by FrankZappa

Good one irul. Got it a lil' bigger (please)?
Meh on the binders... but I dig the sticks (note my user title)

Winter of 1978-79 I started skiing again. I borrowed skis belonging to a friend's dad, old brown Rossignols with Besser plate bindings. They were from Michigan where those bindings were made. Wow, they worked but if you lost a ski in deep snow or steep terrain they were a royal pain to get back on.