Shane McConkey was born on December 30th, 1969. After that, he simply changed the ski industry forever bringing us rockered skis, intelligent humor, naked skiing, ski BASE jumping, next level skiing, and Saucer Boy.
Shane dominated the skiing world achieving high level success in moguls, race courses, big mountain, park, skier cross, big air, all of it.
Shane called Squaw Valley, USA home and he exported the infamous “Squaw Attitude” to the masses while thoroughly making fun of it all the time.
Shane created Saucer Boy to make even more fun of the ski industry and all the of wanna-be-pros and their overly serious behavior.
Shane was exactly what the ski industry needed exactly when we needed it.
Shane made skiing cool again.
Thanks Shane.
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Fitting opening image of Shane in his birthday suit on his birthday, he would have loved it.