Published by GravityFed on 27 Aug 2010
Remember this classic?
Time to start digging out the gems from the gfed archives. And yes, there are a lot of them. One of these days we’ll get to featuring them one-by-one again
For now, enjoy the
Farmer Dave Profile…
“Dave Van Dame is an Alta skier and a local legend because of his skiing technique. I first saw his unmistakable tracks in the backcountry in the winter of 1992 and thought, “What the hell made those?” It looked as if a snowmobile made about 40 turns side by side. It was not until we got closer that it became apparent the tracks were made by a skier. The snakey grooves were cut side by side and about a foot apart and took up an entire snowfield. I think I was with Matt West at the time and he said, “Oh, that’s the work of the snow farmer, he’s out here in the backcountry a lot…”
Read entire story in two parts…


