Scot Schmidt blasting off in Greg Stump's classic film, Blizzard of Aahhh's. Photo courtesy of Rod Walker. I first...
The Things We Do for Love
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Revelations
Lessons from the Front Lines
Jackson in action on the front lines at Bobo's in Reno, NV.For seven of the last ten days I’ve been perched on a...
Unsubstantiated Speculation
Why 98mm-Waisted Skis Rule the All-Mountain Category Ours is an era of unrivaled specialization in the ski department....
Carpe Skiem
A talented boot fitter is a terrible thing to waste. Now is the time. Not to go skiing, but to prepare for frolics...
What Makes a Great Ski Great?
These are but four recipes in the current Head ski cookbook. One bedrock principle of marketing is to draw public...
Are You Ready to Ski?
[The process of evaluating next season’s crop of new models begins in earnest this month, inspiring this rumination.]...
Are Today’s Boots Any Better?
Last Saturday a customer of my generation was perched on the boot bench at Bobo's enduring a somewhat frustrating...
The Lessons of 2014
The first week of spring seems a propitious moment to look back on the lessons we learned from our stewardship of...
The Wacky World of Women’s Equipment
Back Story Allow us to peel back the veil of time to an epoch 20 years ago. Fat, powder-specific skis were just...
What Makes a Star a Star?
At Realskiers, we believe that the measure of a great ski is how well it performs in conditions for which it wasn’t...
Are Your “New” Skis Really New?
A Face Lift Every Season Realskiers recently posted a list of 254 skis from 11 major brands, indicating which...