Yes, I have something to say.
.One of the cool things about doing this blog is that I get to talk to a lot of interesting people. There’ve been interviews with great women skiers like Suzy…
A chat with Maria Baker of Nobody’s Princess: Snow Pants Made By Women, For Women
(Photo: Maria Baker, Chief Pant Splitter) Who here has had a problem with snow pants? Yep, I see you over there. A better question would be who hasn’t had a…
A chat with Nikki Champion, Utah Avalanche Forecaster
Thanks largely to COVID-19, backcountry skiing promises to be bigger than ever this year. This is hardly a surprise. In the backcountry, there's no social distancing, capacity limitations, or reservation…
A Chat with Poppy Gall, Outdoor Clothing Innovator: From ISIS to POPIA.
Did you ever find an outdoor clothing brand you really liked, only to have it disappear from the retail landscape? That was Isis Clothing for Women, a pioneering brand that…
The ski film “DREAM JOB” is hysterical. Here’s a chat with its producer, Colleen Gentemann.
Fall is ski movie time. Warren Miller Entertainment, TGR, Matchstick, Level 1, gear companies – these are just a few that produce ski films, year after year year. To me,…
A chat with Joel Gratz, OpenSnow founder and chief meteorologist
Now that it's post-Labor Day, you can't shake a stick without seeing a forecast for the coming ski season. NOAA, Farmer's Almanac, The Weather Channel, Accuweather...these are only a few;…
You have questions, I have answers.
As you can imagine, I get a lot of emails from people asking me all sorts of questions. So chalk it up to laziness, chalk it up to efficiency, I…
A chat with Hilary Engisch-Klein, 2018 inductee to the US Ski Hall of Fame
Before Donna Weinbrecht won the first gold medal in freestyle skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics, there was Hilary Engisch-Klein. (You can read my 2012 interview with Donna here.) Hilary…
A chat with Christy Mahon, record-breaking ski mountaineer.
Sometimes you run across someone whose accomplishments are so extraordinary that it’s hard to believe one person could’ve done them all. Yet with Christy Mahon, I’ve found exactly that. Christy…
A chat about fear with fear expert Mermer Blakeslee.
For many of us, skiing is a head game. Get past the fear, and suddenly things become a lot easier. So who better to talk to about this than Mermer…