Four weeks ago, I posted a Revelation and attendant podcast titled, “Fear of Flying.” In it, I divulged that I have developed a syndrome that it turns out is not all that uncommon, at least among skiers old enough for membership in AARP. Several readers responded to...
Or The Many Shades of Perfect Americans tend to treat all athletic endeavors as metaphors for war. Our most cherished spectator sports are either grounded in a military ethos (football) or are brutally confrontational (NASCAR, cage fighting) and this winner-moves-on,...
I’m an optimist by nature. Try to keep this in mind as I air my misgivings about the future of American skiing. As the thoughts I’m about to share were incubating, they started to coalesce around five points, all of which turned out to be more complex than I at first...
The snow-clad skis in this rack will one day adorn a similar rack inside a tent at a ski swap. If you can’t stomach dropping a grand on a new pair of skis, the secondary market offers an abundance of options to buying new. Fall is ski swap time, as well as...
What’s wrong with this picture of the Peruvian lift at Snowbird, gateway to idyllic terrain? Not a damn thing, unless, like your esteemed Editor, you suffer from FOHL. Photo by “Guru” Dave Powers. I don’t remember the first time I felt it, at least...
