How You Can Help Save Christmas

How You Can Help Save Christmas

Dear Readers,   To fill you in on some essential background: The Stump-Bertoni Prize for Excellence was created to correct a grave injustice.  As of two years ago, Realskiers.com had never won an award, if you can believe that.  The fact that no such award – one...
Cascading Rivulets of Thought

Cascading Rivulets of Thought

  As the photo above attests, I’ve been composing my thoughts about skis and skiing for a long time. This week’s Revelation recaps the 2020/21 season as captured in the pages of Realskiers.com.  Oh, what a year it’s been.  The ski community has gone...
52 Weeks

52 Weeks

Your Esteemed Editor en route to his next descent in the Wasatch backcountry. If you’re a skier, and you believe in the afterlife, this is where you wind up. (Provided you’ve been very, very good.)   We skiers are a resilient lot. One year ago, give or take a day...
The Things We Do for Love

The Things We Do for Love

Dear Readers who regularly devour my weekly Revelations know that I have already written at length on the subject of Why Skiers Are Better than Everyone Else. Last Friday I was reminded of my timeless prose as I spent 45 minutes traversing a very short stretch of road that connects I-80 to Route 89, my proscribed path to Alpine Meadows. As I voluntarily descended into this automotive miasma, I could make out the dim form of the interstate traffic snaking down from the west, two dense strands of tightly linked vehicles stretching beyond the horizon.