You’re taking off for a weeklong winter vacation. Should you take your skis with you or leave them behind? A Realskiers member recently shared the following suggestion: I would like to see your (article) recommendations for Eastern skiers going to the Western...
On Vibrations (from Snowbird Secrets) At Realskiers we focus our energies on equipment, but skiing isn’t about the stuff; it’s what you do with the stuff that matters. To ring in the New Year on the right note, the first post of 2015 is an abbreviated...
While most of my posts here are devoted to matters pertaining directly to alpine equipment, on occasion I ruminate on why it is we ski in the first place. This is one such reverie. Be reassured I’ll soon be back on the gear beat with nuts-and-bolts previews of...
On Being LIght (from Snowbird Secrets) Wind slab on Silver Dipper in Snowbird’s Mineral Basin Mineral Basin, on the backside of Snowbird, is a bowl so large if it were any bigger it would be a lake. When storms move into this corner of Little Cottonwood Canyon,...
I once owned a chalet Near Squaw Valley When I skied every day of the week. Once I learned, “bend zee knees” I caught a disease: I turned into… an equipment freak. Alas, the chalet went to wife #2; I cried for half a day. But I wasn’t half as blue As...
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