OverstreetWhere did slopestyle skiing come from and when? I am talking about rails and jumps and halfpipe.
I remember skiing the pipe at gore in the mid 90s. Something like 96 maybe? Before that they had a snake run of berms. Also were some skiers in the park as soon as that opened. The pipe was "snowboard only" but I don't remember the park ever being that there.
Park skiing evolved over time. The skiboard and then the popularizing of the twintip were the big things that helped it take off. Pretty much as early as there was a feature to hit people were hitting it on skis. But that skiing didn't really resemble todays skiing.
Back then moguls was where it was at for freestyle skiing.