When The Need To Ski Takes You To The Ocean.

Chuck Patterson slaloms down “Jaws” in Maui.
Credit: Salomon Freeski

Here is former Freeskier Chuck Patterson handling several big ones off Maui in 2011 on skis.  He’s experimenting with the idea of skiing down monster waves like Pe’ahi or “Jaws”, shown here. We do wonder, however, what he is doing with those poles. We guess that’s part of the experiment.