An exciting new ski mountaineering race, The Five Peaks,  has succeeded in rousing me from my blogging slumber. Oh, to be young again and see a race up and down the seductive Ten Mile Range above Breckenridge! How can anyone with young legs resist? A race that starts with a skin climb of about 4000 [...]

While picking up milk at the grocery store today I checked out the magazine rack to see if I would be tempted buy the Olympics issues of any of the ski mags. I wasn’t very optimistic, but neither was I ready to see just one option: Ski magazine. It had a pretty pathetic dozen or [...]

Thursday night it was standing room only at the Wort Hotel in Jackson when the Jackson Hole Historical Association hosted an evening with Pepi Stiegler and Tommy Moe reminiscing about their lives as skiers and Olympic champions. Both men succeeded in landing jobs in Jackson many years ago  because they were Olympic champions, but neither [...]

Please read Michael Pearlman’s excellent post Ski Patroller Death Highlights the Real Price of Powder Turns on New West about the ski patrollers we too often take granted. It is sad that it takes the loss of one of these very professional and dedicated people to remind us that they risk their lives so we [...]

In a few years virtually all cell phones will be smart phones having a sophisticated display screen capable of showing in real time, on a large scale satellite photograph or topomap, the location of the user and the location of a buried victim and accurately indicating the distance and direction to the victim, plus the victim’s depth.

When all is said and done, skiing (and snowboarding) us all about the snow. Its is not about how new or expensive our gear is, or how fancy a resort we’re skiing at, or how great we think we look in our new parka, or how steep a pitch we just aced, what it is [...]

I live near Jackson Hole and every year I toy with the idea of buying a season pass there, but I balk at its price tag, this year it is $1970. If I took advantage of its summer price discount I’d pay only $1675. If I skied 50 days I’d end up paying about $33 [...]

“Dear skiers! Downhill skiing demands awareness. Advanced skier’s speed while descending the slope can reach 100 km/hour. In the places of mass skiing inexperienced and undisciplined skier is the serious danger for the others.” From the Bukovel Ski Slope Rules and Etiquette. “Obeying the rules will help you to have an exciting and effective rest [...]

I wonder how many people representing the various sectors of the ski industry are in Copenhagen? Current trends in climate change certainly don’t look good for the ski industry, do they? Yeah, I know, compared to the health insurance industry, or the banking industry, the ski industry is pretty small potatoes, so when its future [...]

Winter storm warning. Such a pregnant with meaning phrase for skiers. Right in there with “I am pregnant” or “I love you”.  So many possibilities and so much hope springs to mind when skiers hear or read these words in this order.  More normal people may cringe and curse at the prospect of dangerous roads, [...]