Daring Skiers Take Snowless Skiing To New Heights With Absurd Stunt Reel

How often do you go through a pair of skis? One season? Three seasons? A decade?

It all depends, really, on what you do with them. Some (myself included) fall into the “tools not jewels camp.” They don’t seek out rocks, per se, but if the decision is between a few core shots or not farming some early-season pow, they’ll take the former option. Then, there’s a bonus third option: those who seem to treat their skis with outright disdain.

Enter BPC, the series of videos that involve plenty of skiing but literally zero snow. The fourth chapter has just been released, and it’s every bit as entertaining as the previous outings. Included are staircases, gravelly hillsides, rock faces, and a piece of giant machinery at sea. All become skiable, or some approximation of that.

Tap or click below to watch BPC 4.

The guys behind BPC hit it big time with BPC 2, which dropped two years ago and, since then, has racked up almost one million views on YouTube—no small feat for a video about a niche activity within a niche activity. Most people don’t ski, let alone ski in places you aren’t supposed to. Still, the sheer craziness of BPC clearly struck a nerve.

Then, more recently, members of the crew showed up in the music video for the Foo Fighters’ new song Of All People, giving their antics the high-budget treatment (more to come in our upcoming print issue).

Still, as epic as that music video was, the shakier, grainier footage they returned to recently with BPC 4 feels right. Everything about this approach to skiing is unpolished. It is, probably, what most would call a bad idea. But, applying the horseshoe theory of ski decisions, there are decisions that are so bad that they circle back around and, actually, turn out to be really, really good. 

Or, at least, good for viewing. All the bumps, scrapes, bruises, and dislocated digits that went into BPC 4 must have been the opposite of fun. Something else, however, must keep BPC coming back. Maybe they’ve discovered a revelation. Is it not just powder that’s overrated? Could it be that any snow at all is, too? 

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