Over the course of the past 19 months I have lived in/on tents, couches, guest beds, floors, crawlspaces, basements, attics, RVs, snowcaves, and real caves throughout various continents. Skiing is to blame for this lifestyle.
My most recent home of 3 months, a gently used 24′ Winnebago Majestic, provided me a few lessons about life. Here the lessons to live by, specifically for a life in a House On Wheels:
-Stay clean
-Don’t even think about trying to have a girlfriend.
Those are skateboarders.
As tastemakers, trend-setters, and king-makers within the action skiing/freeride-styling community, it’s our pleasure to (once again) announce this most breaking news: PBR IS DEAD! My hunch was that another, better-tasting-although-equally-cheap tall boy would emerge to replace PBR as the go-to parking lot tailgate, road soda, pocket soda, and all the other hipster euphemistic drinking experiences, and I was right.
The ski world was rocked last week by the heist of $6,400 worth of US Ski Team Gear at Copper Mountain. The news initially raised hopes that Olympic skiing had made significant gains in popularity and fashionability since adding superpipe and slopestyle. Ski team gear has always been stored in clearly labeled boxes in unlocked, unguarded rooms. No one has ever bothered to steal as much as a t-shirt.
We don’t like to think about money in skiing. Unfortunately, it’s a sad reality that skiers with bigger sponsors get bigger video parts and ESPN gives more air time to corporate-backed athletes. BUT, it’s nice to know that in this greasy-palm world, there is at least one skier who looks at the big picture.
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It’s being reported that Jamie Pierre died in an avalanche in the backcountry around Snowbird today.
Jamie Pierre always existed in a world completely separated from anything the average skier could fathom. As a kid, I remember passing around a full page photo of a Jamie cliff drop in Powder magazine. He was a tiny speck against a gargantuan brown cliff. It was the kind of photo that can scare you if you look too closely at it. As far as we were concerned, the dude was Superman.
When you hear “Fatcan Poles,” what do you think of? Stupid question. You think of a pole that has an internal insulated beverage-holding chamber and a screw off top. Obviously.
While five more seconds of thinking will make you realize that a pole-flask would be a rather skinny can, it doesn’t really matter. We’ve finally got the product we’ve all been waiting for. This will be skiing’s answer to that stupid leg bag snowboarders wore in 2005 and then skiers wore from 2007-2009 (obligatory two year delay). Snowboarders will be clamoring for ways to ironically embrace holding poles, nerds will be burning their Camelbaks, and Hot Possie will remain about the same. But…
Alright nerds, listen up. You’re all pumped for ski season— ready to destroy weekends once again. That may be motivation enough to keep in good shape by going to lax camp or the track or whatever is you do when you’re not looking at your iPhone. For the rest, you’ve only started thinking about getting back in shape now that you heard resorts are opening. Well, not to fret. Here’s a few last-minute do’s and don’ts of pre-season training that should get you on the hill and slaying in no time.
La Nina is a baby, and like all babies, people try to put a positive spin on her. Any reasonable human being realizes that she could grow up to be a real son-of-a-bitch same as she could end up a success.
Every hack in the game has tried to put a prediction on what this La Nina winter will bring to every major (and minor) ski region on this continent, but once again, we all know it’s bullshit. So instead of trying to predict the future, we bring you a curmudgeonly analysis of the past, which is the only reliable way of predicting the future anyway.
Josh Malczyk, the Line/Full Tilt marketing dude and a frequent BroBomb comment contributor, is also one of the few TMs/marketing guys who can still hold it down on the mountain, and compared to his aging contemporaries, in the park. While it wasn’t always Sleepless in Seattle, the keys to industry riches and desk jobs are the same as they’ve been for almost five years now– work for free for any ski company that will let you intern.
Brobomb: Where did you grow up skiing?
Josh: Mt Southington, CT on the weeknights (I grew up down the road) and Okemo Mtn in Ludlow, VT on the weekends.
So first of all, what do you have to say for yourself for your backwards-hat-at-an-angle-with-folded-bandana look?
Sherpas Cinema and Public Ritual spin a controversial b-side
Amid all the buzz for All.I.Can, another little gem from Sherpas Cinema – in collaboration with Public Ritual – is quietly causing its own stir. The short film The Man and the Mammoth originally aired on Salomon Freeski TV last spring, but this season it’s touring some of the film festivals with an alternate ending, after the original edit raised controversy among audiences, and surprisingly, even between the producers themselves.
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