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Keepin' On with Jackie Paaso
Jackie Paaso has lived it all on the Freeride World Tour. From podiums and injuries, to near defeats and comebacks, the Bethel, Maine native has ridden a decade of ups and downs on the FWT. She even met her partner,...
Interview
Rainer Hertrich's Endless Winter
To ski every day for over eight years, Rainer Hertrich sacrificed a lot. He put aside relationships, and pushed through injuries. He even took midnight runs on travel days to make the flight from northern to southern hemisphere without missing...
Culture
Zen and the Art of Ski Maintenance
The edge, my friend. That is all you need to worry about—the tiny sliver between doom and grace. That place at which a point is made, where two surfaces converge. For now, think only of that. Think of the samurai,...
Interactive Feature
MT. BAKER 2019-2020 SEASON RECAP
View interactive feature Mt. Baker is a family affair. Of course, there’s Duncan, Gwyn and Amy Howat steering the ship with their mantra of culture over cash. But it’s much deeper than that. I first visited the hill sometime in...
Yodel
Ski Ya Next Spring
During a normal year, these would be our weekends to slather on the SPF 50 and bust out garish spandex. We’d party in the parking lot with brats roasting away on tailgate grills. “Take one if you want one,” we’d...
Interview
Tatum Monod Drops In
When Tatum Monod burst onto the freeski scene in 2014, the ski world was awaiting her call. After Sammy Carlson, Sean Pettit, and crew had started bringing park skiing prowess into the backcountry, the young Canadian represented a long-awaited link...
Interview|Profile
Simon Dumont Hits Back with 'Resurrection'
“I figured the best way to let people know I'm alive is to ski,” says Simon Dumont. The 33-year-old from Bethel, Maine made his X Games debut at 14, holds nine X Games medals, a world-record quarterpipe air, and is...
Interview
Boot-Stompin’ Ski Town Music: An Interview with Cousin Curtiss
Live music and après go together like bluebird pow and goggle tans. Nobody knows that better than mountain town musician Curtiss O’Rorke Stedman, who goes by the name Cousin Curtiss when he’s up on stage. Curtiss’ fast-paced, high-energy stage presence...
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Mike King's 'Feast or Famine' Takes Us Home
Freeskier Mike King insists he’s more of a professional farmer than a professional skier. He’s spent the last three winters skiing all over North America as an 686 and Lib Tech athlete, but his roots as a farm kid from...
Culture|Yodel
A New Wilderness: COVID-19 Through the Eyes of a Backcountry Skier
On March 14, I woke up in my sleeping bag. I put on down pants, stuffed cold toes into stiff boots, and set to melting snow for water, taking my hands out of big mittens just long enough to turn...
Travel|Yodel
The Not-So-Great Euro Escape
The plan was northern Italy. Snow had been hard to come by in Europe all season, as, after a frenzy of early season storms, the faucet had shut off across the continent. The deeply secluded valley a few hours north...
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100 Perfect Days
THE 100-DAY SKI SEASON HAS A SPECIAL KIND OF MYSTIQUE. Hitting a round, yet arbitrary, triple-digit number pushes a skier into a particular echelon of people who’ve given themselves over to the sport—if only for a season. I’ve only managed...