The Five Biggest Stereotypes in a Ski Town - Which one are you?
The post The Five Biggest Stereotypes in a Ski Town appeared first on POWDER Magazine.
View ArticleThe Jaded Local’s Crystal Ball - Let's hope that this year will be better...
Fires, floods, hurricanes, Nazis in the streets… 2017 was a mess and it should come as no surprise that my predictions for the near future are suitably dark. Extrapolating current trends is a grim...
View ArticleCool-sounding Names for Crappy Ski Technology - "Revolutionary" ski tech...
1. Telemark Look, I understand that hippies can be annoying and the bindings always break or rip out, but you have to admit that at the end of the day it’s a cooler-sounding word than “randonee” or...
View ArticleThe Pleasure of Not Doing Anything Rad - The pow-day program was in full...
It wasn't their fault. Tired from the shred-fest that is Jackson Hole's upper mountain on a powder day, the Rad Bros simply had no frame of reference for the happy idiot in the bandana and...
View ArticleIt’s Time For Ski Towns To Start Anti-Marketing
In 1970, the late great Hunter S. Thompson ran for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado, where Aspen was just starting to blow up. Thompson ran on a platform of tearing up all the pavement in town,...
View ArticleConfidential Notice: For Internal Super Evil Ski Corp Distribution Only
Ladies and Gentlemen, Undoubtedly, we’re all cognizant of the impending threats to our business model: Backcountry skiing is growing more popular, snowboarding has plateaued, climate change is throwing...
View ArticleHot Dog 2: The Sequel
Thirty-five years ago, the most seminal Hollywood ski movie was, um, released on the public, exposing them to the stunt skiing of Tahoe legend Tom Day, the boozy antics of Squaw Valley misfits, a...
View ArticleJunk in the Truck: 2013 Dynafit Huascaran
If zee Germans can maintain this kind of rapid-fire product development, it's going to put real pressure on an industry that would prefer to spend it's money on developing shiny new marketing...
View ArticleJohn Clauson is Kicking Cancer
Soon after that, Clauson was diagnosed with leukemia. He has health insurance, but he and his family have had to travel to Denver for aggressive chemotherapy, and he still faces more treatment and a...
View Article