A Quick Chat with Skiing Legend Glen Plake | UNITED STATES, OREGON | 01/11/2010, by Ski Waheenie

Here is a quick yet entertaining interview that skiing the backcountry was able to take of Glen Plake a couple weeks ago. STB ran into Glen and his wife Kimberly during his Down Home Tour, where each year Glen and Kimberly travel to a region of the United States and show up unexpectedly to all the ski resorts in that area to build stoke around skiing.

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