Controlled Fall: Collected Ski Stories is perhaps the most curious compendium of ski tales ever assembled. Author’s note That all these stories are the product of one brief career in ski “journalism” is perhaps frightening. The pieces assembled here—some...
The Fall Line by Nathaniel Vinton reports on the race season of 09/10 on a granular level—focusing on Lindsey Vonn and Bode Miller—but it is much more than that. The book is nothing short of a superb history of World Cup racing, an insider’s analysis of ski...
“The Story of Skiing and the History of Snow” goes the tagline of Porter Fox’s superb—and scary—volume and that says it all. Maybe the key quote: “The ski industry itself has been surprisingly slow to react to climate change, given that it...
When I orchestrated equipment reviews for Snow Country Magazine 25 years ago, all skis looked similar but the quality of the on-snow experience was all over the map. Today skis come in a wild array of widths, sidecuts and baselines that impart all sorts of...
