Enlightened Self-Interest Explained

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, that I might address and ultimately resolve your most urgent, ski-related issues.  As skiing, in my view, reaches into all aspects of one’s being...
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...
Realskiers.com Trounces Field to Earn Second Stump-Bertoni Prize for Excellence

Realskiers.com Trounces Field to Earn Second Stump-Bertoni Prize for Excellence

In a stunning upset that in retrospect appears inevitable, Realskiers.com has been awarded The Stump-Bertoni Prize for Excellence for the second year in a row.

For those cave-dwellers who snoozed through Realskiers.com’s first triumph in this gilded competition, permit me to bring you up to speed. Then as now, the battle for this cherished trophy (metaphorically speaking – the S-BP lacks sufficient funds for a memento commensurate with its prestige) was fierce, extending both of its eponymous founders to previously unknown limits.

The final ballot was determined by leg wrestling over Stump’s furious protest; he cogently argued that this sort of bias against the vertically challenged has no place in a free society. Bertoni imperiously overruled Stump’s evermore strident complaints, citing a lack of legible documentation, tardy submissions and a tendency to perspire copiously when provoked.

This year’s competition was no less fraught.