It’s a scary time in the ski media world. Several notorious ships that had been anchored at their respective ports for a good long while have just in the past month drawn those rusty weights from the bottom of the sea and sailed off for distant and in a few cases unknown horizons. First Matt Harvey left his post as senior editor at Freeskier with no obvious candidates to replace him. Maybe Nate Abbott will just take that spot over and publish more of his own photos, but it’s too early to tell. Then came the announcement that freeskiing’s jowled frontman, Jeff Schmuck, would be ending his ancient (for the internet) history with Newschoolers and would move on to be an editor at SBC Skier, an interesting career move given that the 70 people who actually live in Canada pale in comparison to Newschoolers’ 187,000 registered users. Maybe he just wanted to watch print media die first hand? Maybe Prime Minister Stephen Harper wanted Canada’s most successful ski media personality back working for the home team.
