For the vast majority of the skiing population, days on snow are limited to weekends and vacations, with the bulk of the week spent in school texting the girl in the front row or at work complaining about your spouse. Thus, many comb the internet for ski content to satisfy their vicarious cravings until the next time they click in.
In an age where even multinational corporations put so much emphasis on social media that they’ll pay some idiot to Tweet about iced coffee because they can’t figure out how to communicate in brief and misspelled spurts of grammar, your online ski persona can do as much to dictate your standing in the ski community as your actual skiing skills. So take heed of the following advice, which will help you manage your internet skiing career from your first post on NS as a toddler to your last avi forecast on TGR as a crinkly, bitter, randonee-ing old man.
Newschoolers
So you’ve grown old enough (7) for your parents to give you a MacBook, an iPhone, and that matching XXXL teal-colored suit you wanted for Christmas that sags on your 130 pounds like a wet mop. You took some ski lessons way back when, but haven’t used your poles in any functional role since. It’s time to get online.
