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...
“You must know, deep inside, that what you are doing is important, meaningful – vital. That someone somewhere needs it to be special, that you have thought about them, and that you care.” – Master Carpenter Callum Robinson, author of Ingrained: The...
