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...
It’s been a rough first half of the ski season. The 24/25 season began with a whimper, not a bang, when most major ski brands belatedly realized their sales targets were unattainable. Unsold skis were clogging the supplier-to-retailer pipeline; even shiny new models...
To describe skiers as a resilient lot wouldn’t be wrong, just woefully insufficient. Skiers are determined to ski no matter how many battles with gravity they have lost. Many have been brutally mauled, patched back together and hustled back into the fray while their...
