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, visibility collapses to a range so dense it should serve as the optical equivalent of Absolute Zero...
When Jon Weisberg, founder of SeniorsSkiing.com, suggested I single out skis that would be particularly well adapted for senior skiers, I didn’t immediately warm to the idea, if only because I was already plenty busy trying to test and review over 100 models a season....
For decades, retailers, rental shops and ski distributors have supplied the secondary market with their used and/or unsold inventory. While there will continue to be a robust secondary market, where the gear that stocks them comes from and how it’s distributed could...
I was one of the many midwives who attended at the birth of the Salomon boot in 1979. I translated Salomon’s encyclopedic Boot Bible into English and later condensed parts of it into one of the first bootfitting manuals. I trained the North American field force,...
You can’t go home again. The past is another country. Nothing lasts forever. There must be 1,000 such homilies that share the same, sorrowful observation. No matter what we cherish about the past, it ain’t coming back. I’ve spent decades refining the peculiar craft...
