Another Cornerstone of the Ski Trade Wobbles

Another Cornerstone of the Ski Trade Wobbles

For decades, retailers, rental shops and ski distributors have supplied the secondary market with their used and/or unsold inventory. While there will continue to be a robust secondary market, where the gear that stocks them comes from and how it’s distributed could...
A Change in Plans

A Change in Plans

You can’t go home again. The past is another country. Nothing lasts forever. There must be 1,000 such homilies that share the same, sorrowful observation.  No matter what we cherish about the past, it ain’t coming back. I’ve spent decades refining the peculiar craft...
Swimming Against the Tide

Swimming Against the Tide

“You must know, deep inside, that what you are doing is important, meaningful – vital.  That someone somewhere needs it to be special, that you have thought about them, and that you care.”  – Master Carpenter Callum Robinson, author of Ingrained: The...
A Dearth of Data

A Dearth of Data

During my tenure as Editor of Realskiers.com, one of the benefits of membership has been a long-form ski review, accompanied by test scores complied by our small volunteer army of testers. Long-form reviews are still a principal component of the Realskiers’ membership...
Re-Thinking the Fundamentals

Re-Thinking the Fundamentals

What if you had the chance to start over with a clean slate, not with something as monumental as a relationship – normally too complex to even contemplate – but something with more definable behavioral boundaries, like a ski test card, to choose a random...