this is me leaving the bathroom after having a massive curry the night before

I need to know the story behind this picture.

I wonder if it’s fake. The mountain lake water in early May has got to be really cold for waterskiing.

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Where’s the jet

Mt. St. Hell YES!

This person is waterskiing. He’s being towed behind a boat.

Well then where’s the jet smarty pants?

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My guess is that it’s fake. I live just south of there and grew up inundated with Mt. St. Helens media and I don’t recall ever seeing this.

First thought was fake too. But this could have been taken from the Gorge looking northwest…just west of The Dalles maybe.

Anybody know where the boat waves are lol

Boeing

Have you ever seen a jet ski?

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He has swung wide, outside the wake. You can see the skier's own wake coming from the right, and the boats wake would also be to the right.

There was Sully's plane....

Love like he is wearing a wetsuit.

Nah, not so bad with a dry suit. People who like water skiing are out doing it whenever possible. Pic could still be phony though. I'm not sure how you couldn't hear that eruption over the boat noise for example, and how the person taking the pic would be controlling their faculties very well.

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Then where are his skis? This man looks to me like he's wake boarding. Just 1 board, not 2 skis.

Why is it “water skiing” and not “wake skiing” then?

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Swift reservoir?

Correction. He is slalom skiing. This is in 1980. Wake boarding was invented in 1990.

But also possibly Skurfing.

Single skis with 2 foot bindings are a thing.

He is actually slalom water skiing on Lake Merwyn.

Water skiing on a single ski is the only way I ever did it.

Incorrect. In English the phrase for this is “piloting a helicopter.”

He's not riding the wake. He is towed by a rope and has swung wide, way outside the wake.

It's a slalom ski, with one foot behind the other. Much more nimble for zipping around buoys, because you can turn the ski using both legs. In this picture he is way outside the wake to the starboard side of the boat and is starting to cut back towards the centre.

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