Who is the greatest underrated skier in the modern era?

Horton

I am doing some research for a future Distance From Center show and got to thinking…..

Who is the greatest underrated or unknown skier in the modern era?
I define the modern era as 1980 to present.

Horton

Clarification: unknown men's slalom skier. The greatest unknown 3 event skier in the world is CLEARLY Martin Kolman

Than_Bogan

Well he's certainly unknown. To me anyhow.

Ilivetoski

Cale

Wish

+1 on Cale considering he holds down a full time pharmacists job, a dad, and cannot ski year round do to living in the Midwest. And he's on some waky ski design 😉

The_MS

Wim
T-Mo
Natalie H

Horton

@MS
First of all I am pretty sure that Natalie is (was) not a men's slalom skier and she was not unknown when she was skiing.

Wim? yea I see your point.

T-Mo? darn good skier but as well known as I would expect.

@Ilivetoski Yea maybe. Cale is my first guess.

jcamp

Patrice Martin was a great slalom skier, although he is primarily known for overall and tricks.

Rednucleus

Steve Miller, Marysville WA

Not_The_Pug

- Dirt

The_MS

Sorry I didn’t read your next post.

The_MS

Tyler Scott

aspski

Nate Smith
Will Asher

Nando

Not exactly unknown, but Jeff Rogers has always seemed underrated, or at least overshadowed, to me. The guy held the world record and always had a day job. He's such an unassuming guy that I think he kind of gets overlooked.

Horton

@aspski

Horton

@Nando you think Rogers is underrated? Really? He ALMOST makes my Mt Rushmore list. He is a titan of the sport.

@aspski you almost received a QUADRUPLE Panda for that.

Nando

@Horton, just sayin' that if you ask a lot of serious skiers, he's either down their list of all-timers or they forget about him. I'm with you- not just a titan, but a LONG-TIME titan of the sport.

Horton

@MS
I gave you crap about Natalie but I'm thinking about it and I think April Coble is a massively underrated 34 mph skier

The_MS

@Horton April is top 5 all time in my book. Lots of titles and she skied on top until 41/42

Horton

@ms the thing about April that just blows my mind is the way she maintains rope tension so well all the way out to apex.

Than_Bogan

It's hard for me to disagree with Cale -- remarkable athlete who just happens to be part of the same Denali Project that I am.

But I do think @Nando has a point, and it's because Jeff Rodgers probably should be on Mount Rushmore, and yet I don't think I would have even thought of him sitting here on my own.

Orlando76

I feel this is a vague topic or maybe I misunderstand it. 1980 was almost 40 years ago, heck I wasn’t even born yet.
On this side of the land mass if you say Terry Winters people say Terry Who? When I feel his name should be at number 5.
The other would be Robert Pigozzi. Granted he’s a young buck and hasn’t proven his ground well enough but the guy is a beast.
And yes, Burdick should be up there.

Mike Gile

Noah and Vennesa

Chet

Sonny Berry, Jeremy kovak, Kreg Llewellyn,

Chet

Ok not so modern but I agree that Martin he is sooo good

Horton

@Mike Gile ?

Horton

@Orlando76 I am perfectly willing to debate the definition of modern era. There is no wrong answer unless you are the guy who says that Nate Smith is underrated

block

Maybe not greatest of all but Mike Esay(Spell check)? Was very good.

Horton

@block never heard of the guy or I don't remember. Give us some details. Who was this guy?

ToddF

jason Paredes, or Tom Brantly practices without a course right?

Horton

@ToddF I'm pretty sure that's not true about Jason. Now Tom is a freak and yes he maybe the greatest underrated skier in the world.