During my tenure as Editor of Realskiers.com, one of the benefits of membership has been a long-form ski review,...
A Dearth of Data
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Revelations
The Reckoning to Come
This isn’t the typical season-opening salvo from Realskiers.com that my Dear Readers and Dear Listeners have come to...
ChatGPT AI Has Ski Patter Down Cold
If you thought that the quality of ski journalism - in particular the branch devoted to the world of in-resort, Alpine...
Seven Things We Think You Know
One of the foundational elements of many misunderstandings is cemented in place when one side of a relationship...
Stymied
We skiers are a resilient lot. We have to be. The sport that feels embedded in the most elemental fibers of our being...
Another Reason to Get New Boots
Please note that I’m going to intersperse my narrative with comments from real skiers either uttered from the boot...
On Being Early
There are few things in skiing that work quite as well as being early. Every powder addict in the world knows the...
Skier, Know Thy Feet
Wherever there’s snow on the ground, the frenzy has started. Last season, the U.S. ski market hit high-water marks in...
Enlightened Self-Interest Explained
One of the principal benefits of membership in Realskiers.com is the right to correspond with yours truly one-on-one,...
Seven Skis That Transcend Their Genres
Ever since Doug Pfeiffer and Sven Coomer orchestrated Skiing magazine’s first on-snow ski test, how to usefully...
How It’s Supposed to Work
I’ve recently returned to the front lines - known colloquially as the bootfit bench - as there’s snow on the ground...