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Skiing the Way You Live Your Life 1 Sep 2008 | 10:45 am
“I have a theory about skiing,” said my friend Pat Peeples. “Do you want to hear it?” Through the urgent sweep of the windshield wipers and the thick curtain of blowing snow, I could just make out th...
The Ski Bum as Zen Master 1 Sep 2008 | 10:45 am
This is the interactive part of the magazine, so you’ll need two common items easily found in the typical American home: a pair of scissors and your wallet. Got ’em? OK, now I want you to take all th...
November 1990 Volume 19, Issue 3 1 Sep 2008 | 10:44 am
There’s a helicopter run up in Canada—British Columbia, to be more accurate—called Freefall. At the top of Freefall is a small, open field. A glade of charred, limbless tree—all that’s left of a light...
The Big Chill 1 Sep 2008 | 10:43 am
Global warming ain’t The Greenhouse effect is a hoax. In fact, the opposite is happening: We’re on the cusp of a new Ice Age. Yes, pilgrim, the globe is inexorably locked into…the Refrigerator Effec...
January 1991 1 Sep 2008 | 10:43 am
There I was on my first “backcountry” skiing experience, crunching along a dark trail at 4 a.m., when I stumbled over a mogul and slammed nose-first to the snow. It was one of those crystalline Vermo...
Straight Priorities 1 Sep 2008 | 10:42 am
It was the trickle of cold rain that snuck in my collar and rolled like an ice cube between my shoulder blades that convinced me that trying to ski West Virginia at Christmastime was a stupid idea. Th...
The Cold War 1 Sep 2008 | 10:42 am
Sixteen months ago, the first smashing blow crunched through the concrete of the Berlin Wall, and the two Germanys were divided no more. Across Eastern Europe, other walls fell. It was a revolution, a...
Up for Renewal 1 Sep 2008 | 10:41 am
When I was a subscriber, years before I worked here, the first Powder of the season made me do really weird things. It would show up in my Washington, D.C., mailbox in mid-August, on a day when the he...
20.2 1 Sep 2008 | 10:41 am
Taos was the place to be last year. Storm after storm tracked through the south, leaving New Mexico gasping in powder while the northern half of the country skittered and scratched on hardpack that ta...
Why Heli? 1 Sep 2008 | 10:39 am
OK, that’s it. The fun’s over. Turn off those helicopters and give me the keys. Helicopter skiing is too dangerous, too expensive, too remote, and too decadent. Burn those Miller Softs while you’re at...
