BOA Takes Control

BOA Takes Control

A scant three seasons ago, there wasn’t a single alpine boot adorned with the now-familiar BOA® dial.  As the 2026 season commences, there isn’t an alpine boot brand that doesn’t deploy a BOA® cable retention system in at least one product across a broad swath of its...
The Impact of Tariffs on the U.S. Hard Goods Market

The Impact of Tariffs on the U.S. Hard Goods Market

“Nobody knows anything.” This pithy epigram by the celebrated screenwriter William Goldman was aimed at the movie-making biz, but it is equally applicable to a ski trade trying to adapt to the exigencies of a market battered and bruised by sudden shifts in tariffs. ...
From Snowbird Secrets: On Being Light

From Snowbird Secrets: On Being Light

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...
2026 Silver Skier Selections

2026 Silver Skier Selections

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....
Another Cornerstone of the Ski Trade Wobbles

Another Cornerstone of the Ski Trade Wobbles

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...