Ken Block Goes Backcountry

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If you have not seen the Ken Block Gymkhana videos, or his segment in the latest season of Top Gear, go watch them. When you get back, I have something for the skiers/snowboarders.

Take a rally prepped WRX STI, and one of the best rally drivers in the world, who also happens to be a great snowboarder and sponsored by DC... and you get this...

my favorite part is when he shreds some ridge hippie's powder 8's in a wrx with tank treads... sweet. I think it goes without saying that I want one of these... though to be perfectly honest, the expy with chains on would not be a bad 2nd place...

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