#skiing

[vintage-sweden]

"Anna Nordenfalk skiing behind a horse", ca. 1920, Sweden.

[pixierainbows]

Thinking good good snow things happening

So very excited for Special Olympics skiing !!!

[foldingfittedsheets]

For reasons known only to adolescent girls my friend Kate and I started communicating with extremely loud calls of, “Ka-kaw!” at some point during high school.

When trying to locate each other on the quad in lieu of cell phones we made do with good old fashioned screeching. The first call was always a lower tone. When one of us heard the cry we’d immediately echo it back at a higher pitch like dinosaurs playing Marco Polo.

This was probably obnoxious for all our classmates but man did we zero in on each other right quick. It was great. I never had to look for her in a huge crowd I just had to unleash my lack of social decorum in sonic waves. My only defense was that we only used it for out of doors. We weren’t monsters.

It served us extremely well the one time we went skiing together. She was a newer skier and got off the ski lift before I did after a stroke of bad luck and poor planning on our parts. By the time I had my skis on the snow I couldn’t see her. Worried, I took off down the mountain, not spotting her.

I planted my skis when I realized I must have passed her somehow. She couldn’t have made the same time as me. I threw my head back and shrieked, “Ka-kaw!!”

The sound cut across the cold thin air, sharp and carrying. To my delight and the surprise of several snowboarders going past me there was an answering “Ka-kaw!!!” from further up the mountain, reverberating joyously.

I’ve had this turkey post pinged several times, I can only say that I’m glad my friend and I aren’t the only bird girls out there.

[pamietniko]

off season

Snoqualmie, Washington

[easternblocrelics]

Somewhere in Czechoslovakia Color slide 1970s

[tomb-of-madeline]

synthetic snow - a comic about a far future ski competition that turns girls into snow.

what to say about this comic. i wish i hadn't made it, i'm not happy with it. i had a tendonitis flare up while working on this comic, in retrospect it was not worth push through that pain, i made it so much worse. i feel tingly pins and needles in my hand just looking at it. i suppose, after a year, i accept this comic. i don't hate it and i don't want to bury it forever.

anyway, thanks for reading!

-madeline❄️💖

[californiastatelibrary]

You might see this image and think to yourself, "Wait, are those people playing baseball on skis?" and the answer to that question is yes.

Between 1940 and 1975, the Silver Belt Race was held at Sugar Bowl. It was a giant slalom run that began near the top of Mt. Lincoln. In 1955, the contestants played a baseball game on skis after the race. Contestants included: Bill Beck, Warren Miller, Chris Schwarzenbach, Doc Howard, Suzi Harmon, Joyce Conner, Gardner Smith, Steve Knowlton, Yves Latreille, Joan Auckenthaler, John Jay, Cathy Cary.

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[nature-hiking]

Fresh snow on the mountains - Zillertal, Austria, february 2022

photo by: nature-hiking

[veranavera]

Taking a trans pride flag up 131 mountains in the Northeast, parts 64-65

Gile - 64b/131:

West Ragged - 64a/131:

Okemo - 64/131:

Snow - 65/131:

And a nice photo of Katushka on Gile :)

Thanks for reading this far!!!

[littlefleamart]

(source)

[sunnythedawg]

May i see more swap papyrus in your style

Papyrus collection

[imustbenuts]

🙃 jfc we have a audio blasting bot swarm problem on this hellsite.

hi person who is seeing this post by searching for your tag of choice. have u seen the above shitheads and tried to report on sight bc they were blasting some video with autoplay? is your search now not working?

native tumblr blocking is breaking your endless scrolling search. apparently too much posts being excluded from the load results in the load failing, so if you reported and blocked these guys, thats whats causing it. 2nd post im making for those who might not have seen my 1st post due to the aforementioned reasons.

heres how to get the functionality back until tumblr mods gets off their ass to cleaning up the mess on desktop.

get firefox with any adblock that allows for custom blacklist/filters. im using firefox with Ublock Origin. so get this if nothing else.

go into the settings of your adblock plugin and slap the following line in the blacklist/filter. it will kill any dailymotion embedded videos too btw. remember to hit Apply Changes or Save or whatever equivalent thats present in your adblock.

https://geo.dailymotion.com/

so something like this:

now all the botted videos will be broken and unable to load. no more audio blasting. but it will look like this:

make sure the bots are unblocked so the search function actually works. again, too much blocking somehow breaks this hellsite's search bar.

tagging the relevant affected tags these bots are using. in the meantime, Report spam and/or bot but dont block. like this to preserve functionality:

uhhh feel free to spread this and queue it from time to time ig. maybe if we mass report hard enough tumblr mods will actually step the fuck up

...eventually

[pixierainbows]

Pixie be all signed up for Special Olympics skiing start in January !

and .

The Mountain is so so SO close to be being cold enough for First Snow !!

So excited for skiing again !!!

[sovietpostcards]

"Blue Snow" by Orest Vereisky (1967)

[inumbrapugnabimus-maybe]

The LU boys as things my brothers have done: part 1! part 2