Last Thursday, I skied for the first time since recovering from lumbar fusion surgery. I use the term “recovering,” as that’s the blanket term for whatever time it takes to restore the functionality that the surgery was meant to ameliorate. It’s been 14 months since...
Larry Prosor didn’t just document the birth of extreme skiing in America, he ignited it. The spark was lit by a nine-page barrage of eye-popping images lovingly displayed in the pages of Powder magazine, titled Ski to Die. If the editors at Powder had never seen a...
Twenty-five years ago, even astute ski industry insiders wouldn’t have predicted that tiny Swiss brand Stöckli would one day be the darling of the specialty retail channel. Then as now, Stöckli’s deepest roots are in the race community, and its ski line reflects this...
When I first raised the topic of composing a weekly newsletter with Realskiers.com founder Peter Keelty, he coughed, bit down on the Salem that was forever dangling from his lips and curtly advised me that I would run out of topics in a month. This will be the 332nd...
Suppose you’ve decided that this is the year you’re finally going to spring for new skis. Let’s add to this scenario the likelihood that you’d prefer to get a good deal on your prospective purchase. To help guide you through the thicket of decisions in front of you,...
