Beech Mountain Resort celebrated the end of its ski season last weekend with a March 12 “pond skimming” contest.
The festive event drew a legion of fearless skiers and snowboarders who tried to speed down the slopes with enough momentum to skim across a small man-made pond built in to the middle of the hill. This video captures several of the triumphs, as well as a few of the less successful attempts.
Video by Jake Frankel
Music: “Big Noise from Krekel” by Mad Tea Party
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2 thoughts on “Slip-sliding away: Video of the Beech Mountain ‘pond skimming’ contest”
maggie7
Good video! Looks like fun
ashevillain7
In fairness, that is not so much a pond as it is a puddle. Anyone who made it across that puddle is effectively skiing on the snow surface just below the couple inches of water and not actually skiing their way across on the water itself. Put some more water in there if you want to do it right!
Good video! Looks like fun
In fairness, that is not so much a pond as it is a puddle. Anyone who made it across that puddle is effectively skiing on the snow surface just below the couple inches of water and not actually skiing their way across on the water itself. Put some more water in there if you want to do it right!