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  • Tahoe Remembers Shane McConkey with the Pain McShlonkey Classic

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    Posted about 2 years ago by Courtesy of powdermag.com by Tess Weaver

    Shane McConkey was remembered and celebrated Sunday (March 27) in a day of extreme snowlerblading, outrageous costumes and general hilarity that only his home mountain of Squaw Valley could deliver.

  • Honoring Shane McConkey For The Make-a-Wish Foundation

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    Posted about 3 years ago by Erin Edwards

    One of the most influential skiers in history, Shane McConkey, changed the world of free skiing forever. Whether it was doing the impossible on skis, making friends laugh or doing handstands for his daughter, Shane brightened the world of those around him. Shane died on March 26, 2009, while filming in the Dolomite Mountains of Italy.

  • McConkey Base Jumping in NZ

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    Posted over 4 years ago by Shane McConkey

    I’m in Fiordland National Park in New Zealand right now. We are doing a base project for Red Bull New Zealand.

Shane McConkey

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Date of Birth:
December 30, 1969
Hometown:
Squaw Valley, CA
Sponsors:
Red Bull, K2, Sessions clothing, Dalbello ski boots and Marker bindings.

Career Highlights

    • 2005: Nominated for Laureus World Sport Award - World Alternative Sportsperson Of The Year, Ranked #1 Powder Magazine Reader Poll and Won Powder Magazine�s Full Throttle Award again
    • 2004: Ranked #2 again in Powder Magazine�s Reader Poll, Won Powder Magazine�s Full Throttle award, Won Powder Magazine�s Best Helmet Cam award, Went ski base jumping all over Europe and even got to bust a double front off the Eiger and Got Married in Thailand
    • 2003: Ranked #2 in Powder Magazine�s Reader Poll, Won the Chinese Fruity DH at my own event! (Beat Daron Rhalves!) and Skied bitchen lines that closed out to 500ft cliffs and then aired off em with my parachute
    • 2002: Ranked #1 in Powder Magazine�s Reader Poll and Invented world�s greatest powder ski! The Volant Spatula with reverse camber and reverse sidecut
    • 2001: ESPN Action Sport Awards Skier of the Year, Red Bull Ultra Cross�s Big Air Comp - 1st and Ranked #1 in Skiing Magazine�s Top 25 skiers in North America
    • 2000: Nea Award Winner - Freeskiing Male, Bridge Day Championships - 5th Overall 3rd Exit Style Winner of Judges Choice Award, Gravity Games Big Mtn. Champion, Gravity Games Skiercross - 6th
    • Gravity Games Big Air - 7th, X-Games Skiercross - 5th, Japan Core Games Skiercross Champion and Jonny Moseley Invitational - 3rd
    • 1999: ESPN X-Games Skier Cross - 2nd Place, IFSA World Tour of Freeskiing - 5th, US Freeskiing Nationals - 5th and World Tour event at Andermatt - 3rd
    • 1998: IFSA World Tour of Freeskiing Champion, European Freeskiing Champion, U.S. Freeskiing Nationals - 2nd Place and Canadian Freeskiing Championships 4th Place
    • 1996: IFSA Overall World Tour Champion - Unofficial tour, European Freeskiing Champion, U.S. Freeskiing Championships - 4th place and World Extreme Skiing Championships - 6th place
    • 1995: U.S. National Freeskiing Champion, South American Freeskiing Champion, Pro Mogul Tour Overall - 16th - 1st seed and Japan Super Mogul - 7th
    • 1994: South American Freeskiing Champion, World Extreme Skiing Championships - 2nd, Pro Mogul Tour Overall - 8th - 1st seed and Pro Mogul Tour Event at Copper Mtn. - 1st

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