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The First Issue of the Season (Yes, a Real Magazine!) is Out Now

Take a look inside of the 2020 Fall Issue of The Skier's Magazine, featuring skier Connery Lundin shot by Guy Fattal on the cover. → Read More

Go to a Damn Boot Fitter

Go to a boot fitter. We cannot stress this enough. Expensive? Yes, but so are those sweet pair of mid-fats that you mounted with Shifts this year. → Read More

Forgetting My Phone Led to an Unforgettable Day Skiing

Mark’s a Taos local, doctor in Santa Fe, and a former mogul skier. At 62, he can still lace a zipper line. → Read More

The Race To Open is Exactly What Skiers Need Right Now

So for skiers, let me posit that this year—and I cannot believe I’m saying this—skiers need the Race to Open. Let the cold war commence. → Read More

A Small Ski Area Reminded Me That Skiers Don’t Need Much

The joy we found in hunting for pockets of fresh snow, far away from the crowded mega-areas closer to home gives me hope. → Read More

Is Skiing Good For The Health of Glaciers or Speeding Their Demise?

Closely examine any photo of the Horstman T-Bar, or any glacier other glacier T-Bar, and you'll notice something peculiar—it sits about 10 feet higher → Read More

Bode Miller Launches Online Ski Academy, Plans Physical School in Big Sky

When Bode Miller officially retired from ski racing in 2017, the natural question sports journalists asked was, "Who's next?" Now Miller himself hopes to → Read More

MSP Drops the First Trailer of the Season With “Huck Yeah!”

The footage has us ready for ski season to start yesterday. → Read More

WATCH: After Devastating Injury, Skier Returns to Alaskan Spines

This film, shot in 2017 by Antoine Frioux but released just this spring, finds Permin neck-deep in Hokkaido powder and dicing Alaskan spines. → Read More

Pink Algae Bloom in Italian Alps Sparks Climate Concerns

Glacier ice normally reflects 80 percent of the sun's energy. But the darker the color on the snow surface, the more quickly they increase in temperature and melt. → Read More

Watch: This Freewheeling Ski Film Spotlights Revelstoke’s Rowdy Scene

Captured during the 2019-2020 season, this Henry Banfield (AKA Hondro) film takes us on a ride through Revelstoke's playful and serious terrain. His crew → Read More

Fashionable Summer Apparel For Bodies Shaped by Skiing

Skiing a 100-day season tends to make our bodies… morphologically unique. As one skier told our marketing team, “I weigh 200 pounds and 180 of that is in → Read More

Salt Lake City Nears Decision on Ski Traffic Solution

Utah Department of Transportation is closing in on a transit solution to traffic congestion in Little Cottonwood Canyon, home of Alta and Snowbird. The → Read More

You Can Still Ski at These U.S. Resorts

If you're lucky enough to nab a reservation, that is. → Read More

These High School Seniors Will Graduate by Chairlift

Sometimes all you have to do is ask. That was how it worked when Kevin Carpenter, the principal of New Hampshire's Kennett High School, rung up the → Read More

WATCH: Being a Pro Skier is Mostly About Mastering R&R

After a second-place finish on the Freeride World Tour, including two perfect runs in Hakuba and Andorra, Hedvig Wessel is looking some R&R. → Read More

Skiers Return to Mount Hood After 59-Day Closure

The chairs at Timberline Lodge spun again this week for the first time in 59 days. Following Oregon Governor Kate Brown's executive order on May 12 → Read More

The 10 Best Ski Area Mascots, Ranked

tWe're not here to split hairs about chair placements and tap choices. The selection of a mascot is the single most important choice a ski area can make. → Read More

Oregon’s Timberline Lodge to Open to Skiers Pending Executive Order

Timberline Lodge ski area on Oregon's Mount Hood bumped its last chair for the season on March 16—or so they thought at the time. Gov. Kate Brown declared → Read More

This Psychedelic Ski Film Depicts Life Under Lockdown in the Pyrenees

In Spain's Val d'Aran, one of the only parts of the country on the north side of the Pyrenees, the coronavirus lockdown was particularly severe. For 53 → Read More