Every day of every ski season, well meaning but untrained bootfitters at general sporting goods stores cheerfully guide skiers into the wrong boots. This is not due to any inherent wickedness of 20-something man, but because real mastery takes time to...
The average American skier buys a new ski every 8 to 10 years. (Please don’t tell Donald Trump we alluded to any American as “average.”) For every gear junkie adding to his or her arsenal every other year there’s someone who, as far as the ski industry is concerned,...
A recent newsletter opened with the sobering statistic that the typical American skier buys a new ski only every 8 to 10 years. As the ski market will have re-invented itself several times over during any given decade, we thought a little coaching might be in order....
On Being LIght (from Snowbird Secrets) Wind slab on Silver Dipper in Snowbird’s Mineral Basin Mineral Basin, on the backside of Snowbird, is a bowl so large if it were any bigger it would be a lake. When storms move into this corner of Little Cottonwood Canyon,...
The device responsible for making skiing an accessible sport instead of a risky form of recreation is the alpine boot. If it isn’t set up to function properly, the expensive slat it’s meant to control and the binding to which it’s connected won’t operate as their...
