Enter the Volant Spatula, a pure powder weapon released in 2002 as freeskiing legend Shane McConkey's brainchild. Thanks to the internet, the story and inspiration behind these incredible sticks ...

It had been four days since his close friend Shane McConkey had been ... reverse cambered ski born from the Spatula." More recently, Gaffney wrote, McConkey discovered BASE jumping, "and quickly ...

“Shane became what he was in part because ... after much lobbying from McConkey, with the Spatula, a ski initially scoffed at by some in the industry as looking like a water ski.

I was snowboarding at Whistler Mountain in Vancouver last Thursday when I heard the news that big-mountain skier Shane McConkey had been killed in a ski BASE-jumping accident in Italy. Born in ...