New Favorite Person
Teacher's Son
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New Favorite Person
TEACHER’S SON
It was a dreary day at Government Camp, OR. Temperatures hovered around 33 degrees. Humidity was 99.9 percent. Chris “Topher” Newett and I had intended to hit the local rail yard, but something caught his eye just off the main...
Interview
Self-Taught: Piper Kunst’s Flow State
Piper Kunst engaging in the ultimate flow at her home mountain, Alta, UT. Photo: Rocko Menzyk Learning by doing has been core to Piper Kunst’s process since she was a kid. From cutting her edges in Colorado with her family...
Locale
Where The Mountains Rise Up From The Sea
The wooden floor of the Nes Gard boathouse shakes as dozens of fists pound on tables in harmony. Mist clouds the bar windows as puffs of steam escape from the sauna outside, spilling out over the dark waters of Lusterfjord. Mark...
Delicacies
Øyvind’s Loaves by the Dozen
Flour, water, pumpkin seeds, walnuts, oats, salt and yeast. A simple recipe to fuel a long ski day in Norway. On a highly anticipated trip to western Norway in 2025, I was looking forward to many things: skiing above the...
Event
Natural Selection Ski 2026
It’s not often that Olympians, Freeride World Tour champions, street skiers and film icons come together to compete on the same playing field. Natural Selection Ski provided this arena in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains, and this spring, 12 skiers dropped in...
Photo Gallery
Arc'teryx Academy Women of Winter
The following appeared as a physical exhibition featuring large-scale prints at the Arc’teryx Backcountry Academy in Mammoth, CA, February 20-22, 2026. In May 2025, Lucy Sackbauer, Tonje Kvivik, Julia Niles, Angela Percival, Megan Bell and I flew into British...
Event
Kings and Queens of Corbet's 2026
There’s a new king and queen in town. Twenty-four athletes dropped into the 2026 Kings and Queens of Corbet's competition on Friday, and Salt Lake City, UT, skiers Tristan Lilly and Piper Kunst made a couple's sweep of the podium....
Straight Line
For Max Martin, Every Day Was a Powder Day
Every ski town has its local hero. For the town of Jackson, WY, that person was skier Max Martin. Max Martin passed away on January 18, 2026, while skiing in Hakuba, Japan. He was 32 and was about to celebrate...
Straight Line
I Wish I Was There
I’ll never forget the time I skied at Alta, UT. I was on a trip with my family almost 15 years ago, and we stayed in Park City, assuming we’d bounce around and ski a different resort each day. That is,...
Media Review
Tony Harrington's Defining Moments
When Tony ‘Harro’ Harrington told me he was dropping a copy of his new book, Defining Moments, in the mail for me in October, he warned me that I wouldn’t be prepared for what was about to arrive on my...
Straight Line
Slingshot Dreams
Soft snow lingers in the shade while skiing some of the Portillo, Chile, classics, many of which dump out at the shimmering blue Laguna del Inca. Kylie Fly, Stephen Erikson and I landed at the airport in Santiago, Chile, in...