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BY ROB STORY IF YOU’VE EVER LIVED MORE THAN A WEEK in the mountains, you know how deeply skiers revere jam bands. You’re aware that Phish hails from Vermont and String Cheese Incident calls Colorado home. Perhaps you’ve popped a psilocybin cap and di

Thirty-five years ago, the most seminal Hollywood ski movie was, um, released on the public, exposing them to the stunt skiing of Tahoe legend Robbie Huntoon, the boozy antics of Squaw Valley misfits, a number of questionable scenes, including a 17-y

By Sierra Davis and Matt Hansen Try this glove on and you will ooh and ahh. That’s how luxuriously smooth this deerskin mitt feels both inside and out. The interior consists of a Primaloft thermo-plush lining that’s like putting your hand in a cloud,

This is not the first time Bebe Wood has appeared in a magazine. That came in 1950, when she was one of Sun Valley’s “ski bums” featured in LIFE magazine. She was 25 years old, living the dream now familiar to many generations of skiers: waiting tabl

By Kimberly Beekman “When it came to parenting, I felt equipped to handle many difficult scenarios—“Mom, I’m a pyromaniac,”“Mom, I’m a vegetarian,” “Mom, I hate Bruce Springsteen”—but the one I was utterly unprepared for was exactly what I got: “Mom

It starts with an itch. You may feel a general sense of unease accompanied by a sore throat, wooziness, or headache. You scratch, only to discover a bumpy, red rash has developed under your armpits, around your belly button, and in areas typically hi

Nikolai Schirmer Age: 27 Hometown: Tromsø, Norway Occupation: Filmmaker As a self-taught skier and filmmaker, Nikolai Schirmer thought that making a living in the ski industry was impossible—until it became his reality. Growing up in a Norwegian town

By Matt Hansen THE FALL LINE DROPS AWAY STEEPLY, at least 40 degrees at the crux. The top of the north-facing chute is full of bumps before it narrows into an hourglass-shaped couloir littered with rocks and stumps that don’t quite get covered up unt

Words by Gabe Schroder AS HUMANS, WE ARE CONSTANTLY BOUND BY THE RULES OF GRAVITY, constraining us to a terrestrial existence. But as skiers, we can manipulate this force, bending the laws of physics to achieve human flight. Skiing allows us to conne

By Megan Michelson Photos by Zach Doleac Martin Bobillier’s alarm goes off at 7:50 a.m. Which gives him just enough time to peel an orange over the trash can, throw on ski pants, and rush out the door to catch the 8 o’clock bus. It’s a clear Wednesda

By Sierra Davis All Contacts Kelly in accounting [Auto Reply All] Out of Office What you write: Hi, thank you for your email. I am currently out of the office without access to email. However, I will reply as soon as I return next Monday. If you requ

Words JOHN CLARY DAVIES Photography ERIK SEO The life, many near deaths, and rehabilitation of Alex Schlopy ALEX SCHLOPY STOOD ON A CLIFF. The edge was not an unfamiliar place for the professional skier. But this was different. He didn’t have skis on

Day One: Preparation and Organization Choose your Objective Make sure it sounds cool when you tell other people about it, like the Apocalypse Couloir in Death Canyon (good job on that one, Jackson). We’re looking for names like Ultimate Armageddon Sh