Your Esteemed Editor in the company of Scot Schmidt, Greg Stump, Bruce Benedict and Fleppy the Flamingo shortly before...
Where I’ve Been & Where We’re Heading
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Revelations
On Altitude, from Snowbird Secrets
The hike to High Baldy passes along the top of the Chamonix Chutes. Photo by Eric Hostetler.No matter where you go,...
The Great Insole Debate
A fierce debate has been raging within the narrow corridors of the ski trade for longer than the Thirty Years War. If...
Is Rocker the New Cap Ski?
If you don’t have the time to read the long-form answer to the question posed in the title to this entry, I’ll give...
How Fat Got to be Where It’s At & Where It’s Going Next
Why Fat Skis Need Fat Knees The Atomic Magic Powder first touched snow in 1990, a then ludicrously short (180cm) ski...
Import/Export
The Two Dominant Families of Ski Design Exploit and Inspire Each Other For most of the last century there was only one...
Two Numbers to Know
The Savvy Shopper: Buying BootsSki boots are the most commonly replaced piece of equipment because when they stop...
On Heads and Tails
How Sidecut Still Matters in The Age of Rocker I don’t want to come off as some geezer who gets misty recalling the...
Embellishments & Elaborations
All serious ski testing for next season’s crop of new and returning skis is over by mid-March, as that is when final...
Adventures Below the Zero Line
Where Did My Skis’ Camber Go? Now that we are firmly planted in the Age of Rocker, a lot of marketing focus has been...
Ski Trends for 2013
Field Report Conditions could not have been much better for ski testing at the dealer trade fairs held the second week...