Straight to the Point: Tahoe, Your Skin Tracks Are Too Steep
As old as time—how steep, or not steep, to set the skin track? In this Op-Ed, it seems Tahoe might have a too-steep problem.
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The VPR Desk
Volume, Proximity, Repetition: a time-honored argument technique, and also our home for opinion pieces, esoterica, podcasts and audio rambles.
The High Route Podcast Episode 26: Backcountry Business with Cripple Creek Backcountry’s Doug Stenclik
The past several years have seen a topsy-turvy world generally and a boom-bust cycle regarding backcountry skiing/riding business. Doug Stenclik offers insight into the business operations of selling items like touring boots and bindings. Business, when it comes to skins and skimo, for example, isn’t always rainbows and unicorns. There are supply chain snafus, dry winters, and the undeniable fact that backcountry touring requires some know how and elevated heart rates.
Leave a Little Magic for the Rest of Us
Social media, digital mapping, and opening the gates: here’s a perspective on revealing secrets in the Northeast and possibly snuffing out some of the magic along the way.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Skiing. (1)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Skiing: Thoughts on skiing and its place in the cosmos—it’s a big wide place out there.
The High Route Podcast Episode 25: See You Tomorrow—Author Jeremy Evans on Snowboarder Marco Siffredi
An interview with Jeremy Evans, the author of See You Tomorrow: The Disappearance of Snowboarder Marco Siffredi on Everest
