Urban snow skiing. A nutty video of a guy skiing through town.

[kayakjohnny]

What a freak! Looks kind of fun though. Cool soundtrack as well.

http://www.yourdailymedia.com/video/watch/14219/

(2:25)

[frogmarch]

1. For a while I thought

he was skiing in Lead/Deadwood.

Fun to watch!

[kayakjohnny]

2. Is that a nickname for a town?

Sounds like Leadville or Glenwood, which happens to have the nickname, "Deadwood", by some of the locals. And both fairly near each other.

[frogmarch]

4. Lead and Deadwood are right next to

each other in the northern Black Hills of South Dakota. Lead is pronounced "leed."

Central City is between them. It's very small. I've lived in Lead, Central and Deadwood.

Our house in Deadwood was atop a hill, and we had to climb 136 steps to reach it from the street where we had to park our pickup. I always thought Lead/Central/Deadwood (none of them is very big) were the only places in the U.S. where someone's car could slide off a road and end up on someone's roof.

[freshwest]

3. They were skiing in the downtown streets here and in Portland a winter or so ago.

Outside my window. where it's flat, they were skiiing and using snowmobiles to get around because the cold had turned the slush into ice under the snow. It was nice watching but it wouldn't have been so great trying to work in it.

[lumpy]

5. Who needs a mountain ?

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[trof]

6. British Columbia?

The sign on the bus read 'BC TRANSPORT'.
???
Cool, anyway.

[distantearlywarning]

7. Pittsburgh, PA

In February, 2010, we got 2 feet of snow in one day during the East Coast Snowpocalypse (and then 3 more feet over the next three weeks). It basically shut down the city for a week. Nobody could get to work or anything.

These enterprising young skiers decided to "urban ski" Pittsburgh during that week and made a great video of all the fun they had. Pittsburgh is a great location for that sort of thing (when we get enough snow all at once - winters are often more rain than snow here), because the whole town is built on miles and miles of extremely steep hills with staircases all up and down the sides.

Anyway, if you want to see some really great urban skiing, take a look at the Pittsburgh video: http://youtu.be/COQk76u0DU8

[graywarrior]

8. That was worth watching!

[MilesColtrane]

9. Anybody recognize the song he was using as a soundtrack?

[polly7]

10. I love that!

It's hard to find a hill around here, period, so occasionally we hook a rope to the back of a snowmobile. Fun! I'd love to be skiing at Banff or Jasper, but you do what you gotta do.