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Winger for the Weekend #124
Alf Engen developed the technique for skiing deep powder snow in the late 1940s at what is today Alta Ski Resort. It wasn't until the mid-1980s that snowboards became both widely available and widely allowed at resorts across the United States. When you think about that timeline, snowboarding's entire history and modern evolution has occurred in just a cough more than a quarter-century, which is pretty amazing. This week's Winger is an amusing look into the beginnings of a sport. Denim was a bit more ubiquitious back then and things moved a bit slower, but the stoke and optimism is pretty infectuous. It'd be amazing to have footage like this of Alf and his crew back in the day.
United States / English 
10 Feb 2012, 2:24PM
"You don't need any athletic ability" Dahahahahaha!