Revelations

The Boot-Buying Decision Tree

At the risk of reiterating an axiom with which all skiers should be familiar, your choice of boots is infinitely more important than your choice of skis. Yet most skiers have only the foggiest notion of how to select their ideal boot from the myriad choices...
Are You Ready?

Are You Ready?

It snowed in Reno last night. There’s nothing like waking to a fresh blanket of snow draped over every inch of the...

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The Family of Skiers

The Family of Skiers

Once upon a time, the family of alpine skiers was a relatively tight-knit bunch of risk-takers regarded by the general...

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Lessons in Humility

Lessons in Humility

Last season I introduced a Realskiers Test Card app, allowing both our regular cast of specialty shop personnel and...

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The Vanishing Ski Bum

The Vanishing Ski Bum

The ecology that allows the ski bum to flourish has always been delicate. In order to survive, the ski bum often is...

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On Anticipation

On Anticipation

[With the ski season looming just over the time horizon, the communal anticipation of skiers everywhere begins its...

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Deceptively Fast

Deceptively Fast

I can already feel the headwinds of protest this pensée is likely to engender, so to mitigate their ferocity, allow me...

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