In one of last season’s Revelations (Back to Boot Basics), I wrote: You could make the argument that the purpose of the Alpine boot is to put the skier in this forward-biased position and hold him or her there through thick or thin. Reading these words triggered a...
Look, I know you’re busy and my weekly Revelations don’t always respect that. So allow me to show unusual sensitivity and cut to the chase. I want your money. Not all your money and all the gaudy trappings that go with it, just a snippet; you won’t even notice it’s...
Aging is a bitch. Nothing and no one is immune from its predations. I mention this not to impress you with the depth of my insights (the likes of which are unavailable elsewhere), but because we humans have a tendency to hope some things will last forever, or if not...
It isn’t often that a seismic cultural shift can be traced to a single, defining moment, and even more rare that this historic tremor should issue from the world of skiing. Yet on October 16, 1988, a former U.S. National Ballet Champion and heretofore little known...
Last week I outlined the backstory behind the creation of Tecnica’s Mach 1 collection, a fairly straightforward chronology of how a panel of bootfitters exerted a major influence on product development that continues to this day. The code name for the project is...
