With a Little Help from My Friends

With a Little Help from My Friends

By most objective measures, Realskiers.com is my web site. I own it. I’ve contributed nearly every word of content for the past five seasons. I’m responsible for the hundreds of ski and boot reviews posted on the site every year. No one else composed any of the 33...
Crud, Wet and Beers

Crud, Wet and Beers

The annual Masterfit Boot Test concluded this past Sunday after a 5-day ordeal in which some 35 volunteer testers donned 98 boot models and sallied outside to put them through their paces at Silver Mountain, Idaho. If you’re one of the thousands of skiers who would...
Back to Boot Basics

Back to Boot Basics

If you are reading this Revelation on the day of its issue, then I am en route to Silver Mountain, Idaho to assess the state of affairs in the 2018/19 Alpine boot market. The occasion is Masterfit’s America’s Best Bootfitters annual Boot Test, the most respected, most...
A Potpourri of Pungent Opinion

A Potpourri of Pungent Opinion

The slender rationale for this week’s Revelation is that most recipients of this weekly trickle of wisdom, rarely, if ever, drop by the mother ship, Realskiers.com, to indulge in Revelations past. I’m just web-savvy enough to realize that if an email isn’t consumed in...