About this episode

The episode discusses skiing in Tahoe, the concept of hallowed ground, and the impact of social media on these special places.

With five feet of new snow on the Sierra Crest in April, Tahoe is finally getting the snow we should have gotten in March. As a result, the boys are back to skiing, with a couple days at the resort and a backcountry mission to the Eastern Sierra for the annual Green Creek Chute-Out. The boys talk about the concept of hallowed ground – places with spiritual significance and importance, and how social media has led the charge in exploiting these places, resulting in “hollowed ground”. The concept of gatekeeping is also discussed, and asking, is gatekeeping actually a bad thing when you are trying to protect hallowed ground from abuse of the masses? Other topics include new ebikes launched at Sea Otter, lift line DOPE or DERPs, is AI music a plague that should be resisted, upcoming events to check out, discovering the original ice cream man song has racist affilations, and CALL US BACK, GORDO!     2:30 – Winter isn’t over yet – recapping a busy late season Palisades pow day 11:25 – DOPE or DERP – The Rogue Single in the lift line 16:20 – DOPE or DERP – Smacking your snowboard off the ground to remove snow 18:08 – Pow Bot went wing foiling and Trail Whisperer got some hero…

People in this episode

Hosts: Pow Bot, Trail Whisperer

Topics covered

• skiing
• hallowed ground
• gatekeeping
• backcountry
• social media
• ebikes
• AI music

Keywords

• skiing
• hallowed ground
• gatekeeping
• backcountry skiing
• ebikes
• AI music
• Green Creek Chute-Out
• Jackson Hole

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sea Otter

Places: Sierra Crest, Tahoe, Eastern Sierra, Jackson Hole, Sierra Nevada

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