Podcasts about snowboarders

Etienne was a top ATV in the early 2000s. At the peak of his career after getting the opportunity to film for Mack Dawg a back injury forced him to slowly step away from snowboarding. This episode goes beyond surface-level snowboard talk, diving into the real-life challenges that come with life after being a pro. The conversation touches on addiction, injuries, loss, parenting, fatherhood, trauma, and the power of letting go. Enjoy! This episode discusses sensitive topics including addiction, trauma, and loss. If you're struggling or in need of support, please don't hesitate to reach out to someone you trust or seek help from a mental health professional. You're not alone, support is out there. Presenting by Monster Energy Supported by Vans, Baldface Lodge, The Source Shop, The Scandinave Spa, Gibbons Whistler #airtimetv #airtimepodcast #snowboardpodcast #snowboard #lifecoaching #lifecoach

Snowboard professional, steelhead junkie, and born-to-hunt late bloomer—Eric Jackson didn't take the usual route to duck hunting. He tells about his Mom introducing him to boards about the time most kids learn to ride bicycles, how his older brother was a huge life influence, and why his Dad swapped shotguns for fishing rods. But fate had other plans. We dive into how ducks led to elk, why chasing steelhead is therapy, and how snowboarding's fearless rebel soul now meshes seamlessly with Sitka camo. Don't miss his stunning films ALIGNMENT and RIVER—raw portraits of what drives him.     Watch Also: Brothers on the Run: Traveling the World's Longest Navigable Road https://www.redbull.com/int-en/shows/brothers-on-the-run     Visit the Legendary Brands That Make MOJO's Duck Season Somewhere Podcast Possible: MOJO Outdoors  Alberta Professional Outfitters Society Benelli Shotguns BOSS Shotshells Bow and Arrow Outdoors Ducks Unlimited  Flash Back Decoys GetDucks.com HuntProof Premium Waterfowl App Inukshuk Professional Dog Food  onX Maps  Use code GetDucks25 Sitka Gear Tom Beckbe USHuntList.com   Like what you heard? Let us know! • Tap Subscribe so you never miss an episode. • Drop a rating—it's like a high-five in the duck blind. • Leave a quick comment: What hit home? What made you laugh? What hunt did it remind you of? • Share this episode with a buddy who lives for duck season.   Want to partner? Have or know a story to share? Contact: Ramsey Russell ramsey@getducks.com

In 2002, 23-year-old French snowboarder Marco Siffredi vanished without a trace while attempting to snowboard down Mount Everest's treacherous Hornbein Couloir. This gripping episode of Disaster Strikes explores the tragic story of an elite extreme athlete whose deadly obsession with conquering Everest's most dangerous descent route led to one of mountaineering's most haunting mysteries. Discover Marco's meteoric rise in the world of extreme snowboarding, his groundbreaking first successful descent of Everest, and the fatal final expedition that turned him into a legend. Host Kaycee McIntosh examines the thin line between calculated risk and deadly obsession in this cautionary tale of ambition, skill, and nature's ultimate indifference. 00:00 Introduction to Case Knives 00:20 Welcome to Disaster Strikes 01:00 The Story of Marco Sidi Begins 01:50 Marco's Early Life and Influences 03:21 Marco's Rise in Extreme Snowboarding 06:56 The First Everest Descent 08:45 The Obsession with Hornbein Couloir 11:20 Ruff Greens 12:28 The Final Expedition 17:20 The Mysterious Disappearance 22:16 Legacy and Lessons 26:33 Conclusion and Reflection   Email us! thecruxsurvival@gmail.com Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thecruxpodcast/ Get schooled by Julie in outdoor wilderness medicine! https://www.headwatersfieldmedicine.com/ Primary Sources and Comprehensive Accounts Books: Evans, Jeremy. See You Tomorrow: The Disappearance of Snowboarder Marco Siffredi on Everest. Falcon, 2021. ISBN 978-1-4930-5303-2. [The most comprehensive English-language account of Marco's life and disappearance] Chandellier, Antoine. La Trace de l'Ange: La vie de Marco Siffredi. Editions Guérin, 2005. ISBN 2-911755-83-9. [French biography] Original Magazine Feature: Cook, Trey. "The Disappearance of Marco Siffredi." TransWorld SNOWboarding Magazine, Volume 19, February 2006. [Original definitive account of the disappearance] Online Articles and News Sources Comprehensive Articles: Serena, Katie. "How Marco Siffredi Vanished Without A Trace While Snowboarding Down Mount Everest." All That's Interesting, December 15, 2024. https://allthatsinteresting.com/marco-siffredi "The Disappearance of Marco Siffredi." TransWorld SNOWboarding, September 8, 2013. https://www.snowboarder.com/gear/the-disappearance-of-marco-siffredi Rue, Hayden. "Marco Siffredi: Disappearance of the Snowboarder on Everest." Hayden Rue Blog, September 1, 2023. https://haydenrue.com/mountaineering/marco-siffredi/ Funnell, Rachael. "What Happened To Marco Siffredi? The First Person To Snowboard Down Mount Everest." IFLScience, December 5, 2024. https://www.iflscience.com/what-happened-to-marco-siffredi-the-first-person-to-snowboard-down-mount-everest-79487 Renda, Matthew. "The Unsolved Case of Marco Siffredi." Tahoe Quarterly, April 23, 2021. https://tahoequarterly.com/best-of-tahoe-2021/the-unsolved-case-of-marco-siffredi "Snowboarder's disappearance shrouds Mount Everest." Men's Journal, December 5, 2019. https://www.mensjournal.com/travel/snowboarding-mystery-shrouds-mount-everest Bocco, Diana. "Inside Marco Siffredi's Bizarre Daredevil Mt. Everest Death." Grunge, March 10, 2023. https://www.grunge.com/1128610/inside-marco-siffredis-bizarre-daredevil-mt-everest-death/ Recent Everest Ski Attempts: "American Skiers to Attempt Everest Descent." Gripped Magazine, September 17, 2024. https://gripped.com/news/american-skiers-to-attempt-everest-descent/ "The American Everest Ski Project Aborts Hornbein Couloir Attempt." Sports Illustrated, October 6, 2024. "Americans Abort Attempt to Ski Everest's Hornbein Couloir." ExplorersWeb, October 6, 2024.

Great to be able to catch up with Aaron McCarthy after his first foray into Euopean competition, coming home with a win. Jamie & Leigh spoke about his journey from The Rock to the world, and what's next for 2025!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How did a Canadian former Olympian build a one billion dollar narco empire? A few months ago, the feds added a new name to their 10 most wanted list: Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic athlete and middle class Canadian kid who managed to build himself into a powerful narco kingpin. But how the hell did a middle class kid from small town Canada go from being one of the world's best snowboarders to ordering numerous hits across Canada, moving thousands of kilos from Mexico through the US, and having a 10 million dollar bounty on his head? This is a wild one! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gustavo Lopes conta detalhes da entrevista com Augustinho Teixeira, atleta de snowboard. O bate-papo completo está disponível no podcast 'Eldorado em Campo'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Die Liste an Jobs, die Andy Rieger gemacht, Firmen, die er gegründet und Ideen, die er umgesetzt hat, ist noch länger als sein Bart. Denn Andy macht einfach mal. Und was er anfasst, wird auch meistens etwas. Weil er es mit Leidenschaft macht. In dieser Folge von A Story Beyond Sports erzählt der Sport Marketing Manager, Bike- und Mental-Coach, Vater und Gründer unseren Hosts Lena und Andi, dass er im Herzen eigentlich Snowboarder ist, warum er trotzdem das Bike vorziehen würde, wenn er sich entscheiden müsste, dass Mountainbiken auch im hohen Alter mit der richtigen Motivation noch erlernbar ist und was die wichtigsten Grundlagen einer guten Mountainbike-Technik sind. Unsere HOSTS https://www.instagram.com/saralenaniebaum/ https://www.instagram.com/andiwittmannofficial/ Unser GAST https://www.instagram.com/andyrieger_guide_coaching/ Produktion https://saralenaniebaum.com/ Musik https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Drone Views, The Big Let Down Unsere Kanäle https://www.alpina-sports.com/de/ https://www.facebook.com/ALPINASports/ https://www.instagram.com/alpina_sports/ https://www.tiktok.com/@alpina_sports https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiy6wx--9McYjycyzWdOfWA

Charlie Hoch is a former pro snowboarder turned cannabis entrepreneur, which makes him the perfect guest for 420 week. When I say pro snowboarder, while Charlie competed amongst the likes of Travis Rice and was on the podium at some big events, his snowboard career won't be what defines his existence; his success in the cannabis world will be. From developing the original ice bong to building his 100+ SKU empire today, Charlie could use snowboarding instead of having it the other way around, and on the podcast, we talk snowboarding, weed, and more.  Charlie Hoch Show Notes: 4:00:  His 420 plans, Wolf Creek, how smoking a bowl in the backcountry changed his life, going from handrails on his skateboard to big mountain lines 14:00:  Fort Lewis, focusing on his sticker business and becoming a pro snowboarder, 20:00:   Stanley:  The brand that invented the category! Only the best for Powell Movement listeners.  Check out Stanley1913.com   Best Day Brewing:  All of the flavor of your favorite IPA or Kolsch, without the alcohol, the calories or sugar. 22:00:  Close calls, sponsorship, money, making a name for himself at comps, making it work with nothing, photo/video, contests, Alaska, and how does snowboarding end 37:00:   Elan Skis:  Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better. Outdoor Research:  Click here for 25% off Outdoor Research products (not valid on sale items or pro products) 39:30:  Founding the Eyce Brand, the weed business, selling his company and buying it back, the products and brands he's involved in, and who he's smoked weed with 51:00:  Inappropriate Questions  

Paul and Andy were joined by Lightweight boxer Josh Padley, Snowboarder turned runner Aimee Fuller and the big man Mighty Michael Van Gerwen. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Leute, der Spaß ist vorbei, Tereza hat uns erwischt. Deswegen jetzt eine echte, todernste Inhaltsangabe: Heute wird es emotional, denn Dankbarkeit ist angesagt. Außerdem Jugendsünden, Unterhosen, eine wilde Osterpredigt, süße Snowboarder und der missratene Sohn. Was wollt ihr denn noch???? Genießt den Ritt durch die Gefühlswelt euer frechen Osterhasen und fühlt euch geknuffelt! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alex Deibold is an Olympic medalist with over 100 World Cup starts under his belt. Alex's success began at the Stratton Mountain School, and then he made the US Team at 18.  While he was on the team, he never totally fit in. The world of snowboarding had a “high school” style popularity system and the fact that he liked the gym and working hard earned him the dreaded jock label is the sea of cool guys. But regardless of the lack of funding, sponsors, or fanfare, Alex was able to make the dream happen. It's a fun episode, and Nate Holland asks the Inappropriate Questions. 4:00:  From everywhere he's lived, travel, getting into snow, Jib Fest, Olympics, the chain of events that gets him to SMS 11:00:  X Games, US Open, talent vs work ethic, not fitting in, the jock label, and Baum    22:00:  Stanley:  The brand that invented the category! Only the best for Powell Movement listeners.  Check out Stanley1913.com   Best Day Brewing:  All of the flavor of your favorite IPA or Kolsch, without the alcohol, the calories or sugar. 25:00:  Snowboarding is like HS, boardercross, getting on the US Team, not making the Vancouver team, and not having financial backing 41:30:   Elan Skis:  Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better. Outdoor Research:  Click here for 25% off Outdoor Research products (not valid on sale items or pro products) 43:30:  Sochi lead-up, struggle, Lake Louise podium, no pressure in Sochi, getting the bronze, opportunities, and post-Olympic hangover     60:00:  Expensive taste, not making the 2018 Olympic team, bad teammates, not going to his last Olympics because of injury Palmer and Nate Holland 76:00:  Inappropriate Questions with Nate Holland

Sean Lake is the founder of BUBS Naturals, a supplement company honoring the legacy of Glen “BUB” Doherty, a Navy SEAL and Sean's best friend. Former professional snowboarder and marketing executive, Sean brings a unique blend of grit, entrepreneurial spirit, and heartfelt purpose. His mission: create clean, effective products that fuel performance and give back to veteran communities.In this episode, we sit down with Sean Lake—former pro snowboarder, team manager for legends like Shaun White, and now founder of BUBS Naturals. Sean shares the raw, inspiring story of how his best friend Glen “BUB” Doherty's legacy lives on through a company built on integrity, performance, and purpose. We dive into the world of collagen, MCT oil, and the supplement industry, but what shines most is the story of friendship, loss, and building something that matters. What we cover:- Sean's journey from pro snowboarder to brand builder- Building a supplement brand rooted in purpose - The legacy of Glen “BUB” Doherty and the founding of BUBS Naturals - How the SEAL community inspired Sean's mission- Balancing business growth with staying mission-driven Timestamps:(00:00) – Intro: Who is Sean Lake and what is BUBS Naturals?(04:12) – Snowboarding beginnings and ski bum days(09:30) – The story of Glen “BUB” Doherty(15:45) – The moment Sean knew he had to start BUBS(26:08) – First product launch and what set them apart(01:02:19) – Giving 10% to veteran charities: Why it matters(01:08:41) – Building trust in a noisy supplement industry(01:14:07) – Living a life of self-improvement(01:20:16) – What Glen stood for, and keeping that mission alive(01:27:33) – Final reflections: Purpose, performance, and legacy*** LINKS***Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what's happening between episodes of the show.Connect with Sean:InstagramBUBS NaturalsConnect with Brett:InstagramXConnect with Harry:InstagramXConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaX - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinX - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It's a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIAMaui Nui- 15% OFF. Use CODE: MEATMAFIA

Before we roll into this episode full steam, here's some basic information: this interview was recorded in the fall of 2023. That was when a group from the US, including Jimmy Chin and Jim Morrison, planned to approach Mount Everest's north side to attempt to ski the Hornbein Couloir. The project was part of a larger documentary project. This past fall, in 2024, that team made another attempt but was reportedly stymied by poor conditions. All this is to say that back in 2023, skiing the Hornbein popped up in the news cycle. Around then, I reached out to Jeremy Evans for an interview. He's the author of an excellent book I read titled See You Tomorrow: The Disappearance of Snowboarder Marco Siffredi on Everest. This episode of The High Route podcast is that interview with Jeremy Evans, the Tahoe-based author of this good read. We mostly discuss the book and the protagonist, Macro Siffredi. Siffredi was a Chamonix-based snowboarder who arrived on the extreme descent scene with extraordinary flare in the late 1990s. In 2002, Siffredi disappeared as he descended the Hornbein Couloir on Everest's North Side. He was 23 years old at the time. Although the podcast is not a book review if you enjoy climbing and ski/ride adventures and examinations of human nature and what motivates us in the mountains if you pick up the book, you'll find it doesn't disappoint. Further, Thanks to Evans for his incredible patience as we sat on this episode—we got caught up in life and building out The High Route, but we are deeply appreciative of his time and for making the efforts to illuminate more about Siffredi's life.Thanks for listening, and have a good day, The High Route Team.   If you are new to The High Route, we are a reader and listener-supported enterprise focusing on human-powered turn making. Our mission is simple, but it takes real deal calorie burning to piece it all together.We are also excited to announce Issue 1.0 of The High Route magazine is shipping. Fancy paper. Good reads. High-octane photos. And some fine mountain ranges. And turns. You can learn more about our subscription options here.The theme music for The High Route Podcast comes from Storms in the Hill Country and the album The Self Transforming (Thank you, Jens Langsjoen). You can find a link to the album here—there are so many good songs on this album. And if you think you've spotted a UFO in the past or visited the 7th dimension, "Beautiful Alien" is a good tune to start with.  

The Jim Rome Show HR 2 - 3/7/25 The FBI has added a former Olympic snowboarder to their top 10 most wanted and Tennessee Volunteers guard Chaz Lanier joins the program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ferrall talks about the US Snowboarder now on the FBI Most Wanted List, Brock Nelson getting traded to Colorado and other NHL Moves, recaps all the action from Thursday's games, and previews Friday's action.

AP correspondent Haya Panjwani reports on an Olympic snowboarder wanted in the US

VLOG March 4 Eric Adams to DC, 4 amicus briefs incl for special prosecutor: https://patreon.com/posts/city-of-maybe-in-123361259US v. Javice, Chase fired the snowboarder: https://matthewrussellleeicp.substack.com/p/extra-in-charlie-javice-trial-formerIran plot case: https://innercitypress.com/sdny54dmcmahonmehdiyevicp020625.htmlUN Volker Turk is a hypocrite and a censor: https://innercitypress.com/ungate4ohchrturkicp030325.html

In this exciting episode of the Ninja Selling Podcast, host Eric Thompson interviews Fancy Rutherford live from the Ninja Installation! Join them during a lunch break on the final day of the Installation to get a fresh, first-hand perspective on the Ninja Selling experience. Fancy, a successful real estate agent in the Truckee and North Lake Tahoe resort market, shares her initial takeaways and insights as a first-time attendee. Eric and Fancy delve into her unique background as a professional snowboarder and how the persistence, resilience, and sales skills honed in that career have seamlessly translated to her thriving real estate business. Listeners will hear how Fancy's natural inclination to serve and build relationships, exemplified by her proactive client care during a heavy snowfall season, already embodies Ninja principles. Discover her “light bulb explosion” moment regarding pre-listing packets, and her commitment to integrating the Ninja 5 into her daily routine. Tune in to hear Fancy's genuine enthusiasm and discover why she believes the Ninja Installation is a must-do for anyone serious about taking their real estate business to the next level. Find even more inspiration and practical advice within the Ninja Selling Podcast Facebook group. Share your feedback by leaving a voicemail at 1-800-254-1650. Explore upcoming Ninja Selling Events and unlock personalized guidance with Ninja Coaching. Episode Highlights: Introduction to Fancy Rutherford and Live from Ninja Installation Market Focus: Truckee and North Lake Tahoe Resort Properties From Professional Snowboarder to Real Estate Success Transferable Skills: Persistence, Resilience, and Self-Promotion $17 Million in Sales Volume and Early Success Being a Ninja Before Knowing Ninja: Client Care During Snowstorms Service and Value Leading to Unexpected Transactions Building Client Relationships Through Lifestyle Connection Becoming a Conduit to the Resort Lifestyle Art Show Client Event: Fostering Community Three Big Takeaways from the Ninja Installation (So Far!) Takeaway 1: Committing to the Ninja 5 Daily Habits Mindset, Skill Set, and Action: Keys to Success Takeaway 2: The Power of Larry Kendall and the Ninja Process Process-Focused Approach for Client Comfort Ninja System Works Across Markets and Personalities Takeaway 3: Pre-Listing Packet Game Changer The Impact of a Printed, Overnighted Pre-Listing Packet Gesture of Care and Standing Out from the Competition Print vs. Digital and Kinesthetic Learning Final Thoughts and Recommendation to Attend Ninja Installation Key Takeaways: “Persistence and understanding what challenges are possible to overcome… and not knowing when [clients] have the fear of the unknown, being able to walk them through that next step.” “As a ninja, we don't take a transactional mindset… We take a long term approach. We're always looking at ways to help and to serve and add value. Always looking for ways to be relevant.” “I have been a peer to my clients. I think truly that's the biggest thing, making these connections… We can just have a human to human conversation as opposed to it being a transactional conversation.” “Larry Kendall is incredible. The way that he absorbs energy from the people around him and the way that he adjusts for each situation… and has such a process for working with buyers and sellers and community members to really make people comfortable.” “The idea of… having a listing packet that is professional delivered to their door before you even get over there and see them was earth shaking – a game changer.” “It's the gesture of wow, you care.” “Coming together in a room with a hundred people who are all focused on their careers and getting to learn from a ninja master has been eye opening.” Links: Website: www.NinjaSelling.com/Podcast Email: TSW@NinjaSelling.com Phone: 1-800-254-1650 Podcast Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/TheNinjaSellingPodcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/NinjaSelling Instagram: @NinjaSellingOfficial LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ninjaselling Upcoming Public Ninja Installations: https://NinjaSelling.com/events/list/?tribe_eventcategory%5B0%5D=183&tribe__ecp_custom_2%5B0%5D=Public Ninja Coaching: www.NinjaSelling.com/course/ninja-coaching/ Guest Contact: Fancy Rutherford Tahoe Mountain Realty

It's been a great winter at Holiday Valley, where they're gearing up for a busy week with kids off from school. Dash Hegeman joins us.

It's been a great winter for Holiday Valley. Now as February break begins, families are heading down to Ellicottville for what will be a busy and exciting week, says Dash Hegeman, Marketing Director for Holiday Valley.

Wade McKoy is one of the legendary photographers who put Jackson Hole skiing on the map. With 50 Jackson seasons under his belt, Wade's shot 5 generations of Jackson Hole Skiers and Snowboarders and, in turn, has documented the history of the elite in snow from one of the iconic destinations in the US and beyond.  On the podcast, we talk about coming up in the South, learning to ski in Jackson Hole, The Hostel, The Air Force, breaking speed records, Jamie Pierre, and so much more. Wade knows how to tell a great story which makes for an entertaining show and it closes out with another Jackson Hole legend, Jeff Leger, asking the Inappropriate Questions. Wade McKoy Show Notes: 4:00:  Inventing the Gelande Quaff, growing up in the South, learning to ski in Jackson, 50th season, Bob Woodall, working with patrol, climbing in Georgia, and hitting a tree at 45 mph 20:00:   Stanley:  The brand that invented the category! Only the best for Powell Movement listeners.  Check out Stanley1913.com   Best Day Brewing:  All of the flavor of your favorite IPA or Kolsch, without the alcohol, the calories or sugar. Ski Idaho: The best, least crowded, skiing in the world, happens in Idaho 23:00:  Ski photography, his diary, Powder Magazine, NY v LA ski media, shooting principals, Pepi Stiegler, The Hostel, going to jail for skiing, the rivalry with patrol and shooting the Jackson Hole Airforce 41:00:   Elan Skis:  Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better. Outdoor Research:  Click here for 25% off Outdoor Research products (not valid on sale items or pro products) 43:00:  Snowboarding in Jackson, the best of Jackson Hole, Nobis, and shooting the land speed record 54:00:  Jamie Pierre's record, his photo blew up because it was his first digital one, 52:00:  Why didn't he become a bigger name, Blank, the 2019 Road Gap, Mountain State, 2025 Road Gap   67:00:  Inappropriate Questions with Jeff Leger aka Dr. Huckinstuff WADE'S KICKSTARTER LINK

Our guest this week is one of the OG's as a cross-over athlete in action sports! Surf, Skate, Snow, and Moto! He is also an incredible Artist as if that isn't enough! Talk about talent, everything this guy puts his mind to, his commitment, and balls out approached, he has succeeded at an incredible pace! From hitting huge Moto jumps at Anaheim Stadium at 12, to picking up snowboarding at 19 years old, going pro, and landing a Cover in Transworld Snowboarding in less than 5 years. He traveled the world competing in all these sports, had pro-models, started companies, and even had an Art Gallery called “The Mint”! He is a surf coach, does surf lessons, helps kids reach their potential, and loves volunteering and giving back working with Mauli Ola Foundation. Nothing he has done was half-ass and his life is a Great example of someone giving it 100% in everything he does! We welcome to the show. Mr. Mark Richard “SCABS” Gabriel!!! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

These are pretty fucked up times, so what better way to break the tension than with a conversation with Scott Losse.Uncle, Comedian, Biker, Snowboarder, IT guy - After seeing a string of laughable Reels about gravel bikes, anodized parts making you a better rider, and the joys of chihuahua ownership, I had to reach out to connect for a chat to get to know him better.Scott started doing stand-up in 2009 after being motivated by a person you wouldn't expect, and since then has been featured on Dry Bar Comedy, Laughs on Fox, and Sirius XM Satellite Radio. You can also check out his album Popular Doughnuts on SpotifyThis renaissance man was a blast to talk to and I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did. Huge thanks to Rollingdale Cycle for sponsoring the My Back 40 PodcastSave 25% at Dynamic Cyclist when you use the promo code MB40 at checkout.Save 15% at Redshift Sports when you use the code MB40Save 50% off your first month of coaching at Cycling 101 when you use the code MB40 at checkout.Thanks to Spandex Panda for their support.Thanks to Lakeside Bikes in Invermere for keeping me rolling!

In the state of New Hampshire, one of the biggest fears for skiers and snowboarders were realized in tonight's edition of the New England Nightly News.

There is what we think is right or how things work and then there is the right way. Loosing control to get control. Is that how that works? Try it. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.   Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lonnie-jones/support     Please subscribe and share.   Want lonnie to speak at your event?  Contact:  lonjones@bellsouth.net   Check out YouTube for the live eye view while the episode was being recorded.  Also look for archived lessons, Skits, and videos showing/explaining some of the rope stuff we talk about.  YouTube.com/@LonnieJones   Visit www.lonniejones.org  to find links to original art, swag, 550guys and the following books: "Cognitive Spiritual Development: A Christ Centered Approach to Spiritual Self Esteem"; "Grappling With Life. Controlling Your Inside Space"; "Pedagogue" The Youth Ministry Book by Lonnie Jones; "If I Were a Mouse" a children's story written and illustrated by Lonnie Jones; "The Selfish Rill, a story about a decision" A fantasy parable by Lonnie Jones.      T-shirts, stickers, prints and other art at www.teespring.com/stores/lonnie-jones-art   https://lonnie-jones-art.creator-spring.com/listing/buy-podcast-swag?products=46     #www.worldchristian.org #tkminc2001@twlakes.net #www.hcu.edu #hpcitizensfoundation.org Faulkner.edu/kgst  graduateenrollment@faulkner.edu      

Grund: Zu viele Praktikanten statt ausgebildeter Journalisten. «Das ist alles birenweich», kritisiert Roger Schawinski. Bei Somedia wird gefeiert – Verleger Silvio Lebrument spricht von Champagner und Umarmungen. Weitere Themen: · Im Skigebiet Lenzerheide ist gestern Mittag ein Snowboarder abseits der Pisten in einer Lawine ums Leben gekommen. · Im Sommer 1989 brannte in Chur ein Asylheim, vier Menschen starben. Jetzt zeigt eine Recherche: Es dürfte ein Anschlag von Neonazis gewesen sein. Die SP Chur fordert nun eine Aufarbeitung.

Nick Baumgartner's life is the definition of out-working everyone and never giving up. This product of northern Michigan grew up with a traditional ”Yooper” work ethic and an enthusiasm you can't coach. While Nick's original passion was football and he played at the collegiate level, that didn't last and snowboarding took over. While he started with slopestyle, Nick became a force on the boardercross circuit and had to battle through four Olympics before he finally earned his Gold Medal. It's an incredible story, and US Snowboard Teammate Jonathan Cheever asks Inappropriate Questions. Nick Baumgarten Show Notes: 4:00:  Barcelona, Yooper, going out in the bitter cold, being loud, the importance of older brothers, football, wrestling, snowboarding, HS, funding snowboarding, and making it quickly 22:00:  Stanley:  The brand that invented the category! Only the best for Powell Movement listeners.  Check out Stanley1913.com  Discount Code: Powell1913 Best Day Brewing:  All of the flavor of your favorite IPA or Kolsch, without the alcohol, the calories and sugar. The best skiing you don't know about is in Idaho; head on over to www.skiidaho.us to find out more 25:00:  Image, a different time in the US Team, bar fights, first podium, discretionary spot over Palmer and Powers, and Vancouver Olympics  42:00:  Elan Skis:  Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better. Outdoor Research:  the best outerwear is designed and tested in the brutal elements of the Pacific Northwest Insta360 Video Cameras:  Buy the X4, at checkout, use the code Powell and get a free ski pole or snowboard split board pole mount    Discount Code: Powell 49:00:  X-Games, not going to 2011 Worlds, injury to winning X, riding through pain, and breaking his back     71:00:  4th place in his 3rd Olympics at 36 years old, getting ready for his 4th Olympics, qualifying for the 2022 Games, his pump track, watching Lindsay, getting 10th, and then getting Gold    95:00:  Inappropriate Questions  with Jonathan Cheever  

Tony Harrington, aka "Harro"'s story to legendary photographer was a master class in following your passion. To make your dreams come true. In part 2 of his podcast, we talk about the biggest project of his life, “Defining Moments,” a 1300+ page book that documents Harro's 40 years of adventuring in the world of both surf and snow. We talk about the athletes, the travel, and the money.  His Inappropriate Questions are asked by another legendary dude, “Sick Rick” Armstrong Tony Harrington Part 2 Show Notes: 4:00:  Ski bum or hotel, travel, 200 covers, money, family portraits are the bread and butter, and the state of print 20:00:  Stanley:  The brand that invented the category! Only the best for Powell Movement listeners.  Check out Stanley1913.com   Best Day Brewing:  All of the flavor of your favorite IPA or Kolsch, without the alcohol, the calories or sugar. Ski Idaho: The best, least crowded, skiing in the world, happens in Idaho 23:00:  His book “Defining Moments”, Mike Prickett, random projects, missing 9/11 with a legendary ski and snowboard crew, and personal drama 42:00:   Elan Skis:  Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better. Insta360 Video Cameras:  Buy the X4, at checkout, use the code Powell and get a free ski pole or snowboard split board pole mount Outdoor Research:  Click here for 25% off Outdoor Research products (not valid on sale items or pro products) 43:00:  Surfers he liked to travel with, surfing AK, when weather doesn't line up, and the Joneses   53:00:  Partying in AK, guns in AK, Matt Reardon, McConkey, Morrison, Nobis, and flying a Russian mig, 67:00:  Inappropriate Questions with Sick Rick Armstrong

Our guest this week is a world-renowned Super Star for his graffiti and fine art in vivid large scale multi-layered paintings and murals. This Surfer, Snowboarder, Designer, and Prolific Artist has crushed over the last couple of decades with his artwork installations and murals seen around the world. From Buildings, Basketball courts, to Skateboards, shoes, cars, and apparel, there is nothing too small or too big! His celebrity client list is very impressive including NBA stars, Rappers, Actors, including collaboration commercial work with some of the biggest brands in the world like Apple, Nike, Target, Red Bull, Volkswagen, Adidas, Boost Mobile, to just name a few. He also has a big heart and uses his artwork to support charitable causes raising money for children's hospitals and disaster relief efforts. We welcome the show the one-eyed artist and the only person I know with 3 first names Mark Paul Deren A.K.A. “MADSTEEZ"!!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today we're sitting down with Russell Winfield, a snowboarding legend and the first Black professional snowboarder, to hear about his incredible career. Russell shares stories from his unique childhood of pursuing hockey, writing, and music as well as how he navigated a sport that wasn't always inclusive, and the lasting impact he's made on snowboarding culture. We dive into his passion to influence the next generation of riders and his thoughts on the evolution of the industry. Get ready for an inspiring conversation filled with grit, determination, and plenty of Russell's signature charm and wisdom.At Athletic Brewing, we craft brews with flavor that fills your cup, variety to change things up, and a thirst for fun that can't be quenched! Our NA beers are anything but boring. This January, ditch the dull side of dry and reimagine the month with us! Athletic January is here and you're invited.Learn more about Athletic January at AthleticBrewing.com

Bereits vor Wintereinbruch sollte man die Ausrüstung kontrollieren: Kanten schleifen und Belag wachsen. Schliesslich die Bindung richtig einstellen lassen, im Fachgeschäft Skifahren und Snowboarden gehören immer noch zu den beliebtesten Wintersportarten. Leider verletzen sich dabei auf den Schweizer Pisten aber jedes Jahr rund 60 000 Menschen. Dabei sind über 90 % der Unfälle selbstverursacht. Auf der Piste gilt Helm tragen und Rücksicht nehmen auf andere. Zudem muss die Geschwindigkeit jederzeit dem Können und der Piste angepasst werden. Snowboarder sollten einen Handgelenkschutz tragen. FIS-und SKUS-Regeln einhalten!

AP's Lisa Dwyer reports on Gondola rescue at a ski resort over the weekend.

Die Themen: Bär rammt Snowboarder von der Piste; Kretschmer bleibt Ministerpräsident in Sachsen; Merz muss eine Brandmauer abreißen; Ökonomen kritisieren CDU-Wahlprogramm; Machte Scholz ARD wegen Duell Druck?; Linke überprüft Heizkostenabrechnung für Bürger; CNN befreit aus versehen Assad-Offizier aus Gefängnis und Griechisches Essen ist Weltmeister Host der heutigen Folge ist Markus Feldenkirchen (DER SPIEGEL). Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte: https://linktr.ee/ApokalypseundFilterkaffee

Als das Zürcher Psych-Rock-Quintett letzten Herbst mit ihrer 13-minütigen Debütsingle zum ersten Mal auf sich aufmerksam machte, wurden wir über Nacht zu Fans. Nun veröffentlichen EMZYG ihr entfesseltes und uferloses Debütalbum «52 Blue» (ohne die angesprochene Single übrigens). Im Interview erzählen Gianna Bollinger und Sersha Rafferty, warum das Album nach einem einsamen Wal benannt wurde, warum Snowboarder:innen das dankbarste Konzertpublikum sind und wieso die Band vor einer ungewissen Zukunft steht. Und natürlich hören wir musikalische Inspirationen der Band, die's übrigens auch in einer von der Band kuratierten Spotify-Playlist zu hören gibt. (Link unten) +++ PLAYLIST +++ · 22:53 – CRISPY SKIN von SQUID · 22:49 – DRUGSTORE DRASTIC von THROWING MUSES · 22:46 – ELECTRIC RELAXATION von A TRIBE CALLED QUEST · 22:43 – CAREY von JONI MITCHELL · 22:39 – AVALANCHES von JONI · 22:34 – THE KILLING MOON von ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN · 22:28 – I'M COMIN' DOWN von PRIMAL SCREAM · 22:19 – FALSE FLAGS von PRIMAL SCREAM · 22:14 – COUNTRY GIRL von PRIMAL SCREAM · 22:09 – HAZLEWOOD von TOOTHPASTE · 21:55 – HEAVEN IN YOUR ARMS von SALUTE & JESSIE WARE · 21:52 – FOUND YOU AGAIN von FANTASY OF A BROKEN HEART & JORDANA · 21:49 – BORN, DIED von HOOTON TENNIS CLUB · 21:46 – SEASICK von THE RILLS · 21:42 – A GIRL LIKE YOU von EDWYN COLLINS · 21:39 – GUESTROOM von ANNA ERHARD · 21:36 – GETTING REMINDERS von EFTERKLANG FEAT. BEIRUT · 21:33 – LOW SUN von HERMANOS GUTIÉRREZ · 21:28 – DENN SIE WISSEN, WAS SIE TUN von TOCOTRONIC · 21:25 – I'M NOT PROUD von POLLY MONEY · 21:18 – INNOCENT MONEY von PRIMAL SCREAM · 21:14 – KEEP PUSHING von CLIPPING. · 21:08 – STAY HERE von FORT ROMEAU & GOLD PANDA · 21:04 – SWEET LOVE von SYLVIE KREUSCH · 20:56 – PICK IT UP von EMZYG · 20:47 – MIND FALLS von EMZYG · 20:39 – COWS & PREDATORS von EMZYG · 20:32 – GARDIENNES DU MYSTÈRE von EMZYG · 20:26 – LA ULTIMA PIEDRA von EMZYG · 20:21 – MONEY von WIDOWSPEAK · 20:15 – BELLS RING von MAZZY STAR · 20:10 – SURRENDER von EMZYG · 20:03 – HOLLOWED EYES von EMZYG

In 2002, Ryan James Wedding was a member of Team Canada at the Salt Lake City Olympics. Today, if you know where he is, the police will pay you $50,000. In the 22 years in between, he's alleged to have been a part of everything from trafficking and distribution thousands of kilos of cocaine to a series of contract killings in Ontario. How did an Olympic athlete come to this? It's a story police and reporters and still trying to untangle...GUEST: Calvi Leon, reporter, The Toronto Star We love feedback at The Big Story, as well as suggestions for future episodes. You can find us:Through email at hello@thebigstorypodcast.ca Or by calling 416-935-5935 and leaving us a voicemailOr @thebigstoryfpn on Twitter

Revelstoke boarder Mateo Massitti is part of the next generation of backcountry riders. At 19, he left the contest scene to chase something different and landed in Revelstoke. Now 23, he's been honing his skills under the legend Dustin Craven, leveling up each season. He even helped build the Natural Selection course this summer! No doubt there's a bright future for this kid. Tune in! 

This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Oct. 17. It dropped for free subscribers on Oct. 24. To receive future episodes as soon as they're live, and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription. You can also subscribe to the free tier below:When we recorded this podcast, Norway Mountain's adult season pass rates were set at $289. They have since increased by $100, but Hoppe is offering a $100 discount with the code “storm” through Nov. 1, 2024.WhoJustin Hoppe, Owner of Norway Mountain, MichiganRecorded onSeptember 16, 2024About Norway MountainOwned by: Justin HoppeLocated in: Norway, MichiganYear founded: Around 1974, as Norvul ski area; then Vulcan USA; then Briar Mountain; then Mont Brier; and finally Norway Mountain from ~1993 to 2012; then from 2014 to 2017; re-opened 2024Pass affiliations: Freedom Pass – 3 days each at these ski areas:Closest neighboring ski areas: Pine Mountain (:22), Keyes Peak (:35), Crystella (:46), Gladstone (:59), Ski Brule (1:04)Base elevation: 835 feetSummit elevation: 1,335 feetVertical drop: 500 feetSkiable Acres: 186Average annual snowfall: 50 inchesTrail count: 15Lift count: 6 (1 triple, 2 doubles, 3 handle tows)The map above is what Norway currently displays on its website. Here's a 2007 map that's substantively the same, but with higher resolution:View historic Norway Mountain trailmaps on skimap.org.Why I interviewed himWhat a noble act: to resurrect a dead ski area. I'll acknowledge that a ski area is just a business. But it's also a (usually) irreplaceable community asset, an organ without which the body can live but does not function quite right. We read about factories closing up and towns dying along with them. This is because the jobs leave, yes, but there's an identity piece too. As General Motors pulled out of Saginaw and Flint in the 1980s and ‘90s, I watched, from a small town nearby, those places lose a part of their essence, their swagger and character. People were proud to have a GM factory in town, to have a GM job with a good wage, to be a piece of a global something that everyone knew about.Something less profound but similar happens when a ski area shuts down. I've written before about Apple Mountain, the 200-vertical-foot bump in Freeland, Michigan where I spent my second-ever day on skis:[Apple Mountain] has been closed since 2017. Something about the snowmaking system that's either too hard or too expensive to fix. That leaves Michigan's Tri-Cities – Midland, Bay City, and Saginaw, with a total metro population approaching 400,000 – with no functioning ski area. Snow Snake is only about 40 minutes north of Midland, and Mt. Holly is less than an hour south of Saginaw. But Apple Mountain, tucked into the backwoods behind Freeland, sat dead in the middle of the triangle. It was accessible to almost any schoolkid, and, humble as it was, stoked that fire for thousands of what became lifelong skiers.What skiing has lost without Apple Mountain is impossible to calculate. I would argue that it was one of the more important ski areas anywhere. Winters in mid-Michigan are long, cold, snowy, and dull. People need something to do. But skiing is not an obvious solution: this is the flattest place you can imagine. To have skiing – any skiing – in the region was a joy and a novelty. There was no redundancy, no competing ski center. And so the place was impossibly busy at all times, minting skiers who would go off to start ski newsletters and run huge resorts on the other side of the country.When the factory closes, the jobs go, and often nothing replaces them. Losing a ski area is similar. The skiers go, and nothing replaces them. The kids just do other things. They never become skiers.Children of Men, released in 2006, envisions a world 18 years after women have stopped having babies. Humanity lives on, but has collectively lost its soul. Violence and disorder reign. The movie is heralded for its extended single-shot battle scenes, but Children of Men's most remarkable moment is when a baby, born in the midst of a firefight, momentarily paralyzes the war as her protectors parade her to sanctuary:Humanity needs babies like winter needs skiers. But we have to keep making more.Yes, I'm being hyperbolic about the importance of resurrecting a lost ski area. If you're new here, that part of My Brand™. A competing, similar-sized ski center, Pine Mountain, is only 20 minutes from Norway. But that's 13 miles, which for a kid may as well be 1,000. Re-opening Norway is going to seed new skiers. Some of them will ski four times and forget about it and some of them will take spring break trips to Colorado when they get to college and a few of them may wrap their lives around it.And if they don't ever ski? Well, who knows. I almost didn't become a skier. I was 14 when my buddy said “Hey let's take the bus to Mott Mountain after school,” and I said “OK,” and even though I was Very Bad at it, I went again a few weeks later at Apple Mountain. Both of those hills are closed now. If I were growing up in Central Michigan now, would I have become a skier? What would I be if I wasn't one? How awful would that be?What we talked aboutBack from the dead; the West Michigan snowbelt; the power of the ski family; Caberfae; Pando's not for sale; when you decide to buy a lost ski area; how lost Norway was almost lost forever; the small business mindset; surprise bills; what a ski area looks like when it's sat idle for six years; piecing a sold-off snowmaking system back together; Norway's very unique lift fleet; glades; the trailmap; Norway's new logo; the Wild West of websites; the power of social media; where to even begin when you buy a ski area; the ups and downs of living at your ski area; shifting from renovation to operation; Norway's uneven history and why this time is different; is there enough room for Pine Mountain and Norway in such a small market?; why night skiing won't return on a regular basis this winter; send the school buses; it doesn't snow much but at least it stays cold; can Norway revitalize its legendary ski school?; and why Norway joined the Freedom Pass.  Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewHello Mr. Television Network Executive. Thank you for agreeing to hear my pitch. I understand I have 10 minutes with you, which is perfect, because what I'm proposing will take no fewer than five years, while simultaneously taking 10 years off both our lives. Because my show is called Who Wants to Own a Ski Area?The show works like this: contestants will navigate a series of logic puzzles, challenges, and obstacle courses. These will act as elimination rounds. We can base everyone at an abandoned ski resort, like in The Last of Us, where they will live while games materialize at random. Some examples:* It's 3 a.m. Everyone is sleeping. Alarms blare. A large structure has caught fire. The water has been cut off, but somehow you're standing in a knee-deep flood. Your firefighting arsenal consists of a bucket. You call the local volunteer fire department, which promises you they will “be along whenever Ed gits up here with the gay-rage door keys.” Whoever keeps the building from melting into a pile of ashes wins.* It's state inspection day. All machinery must be in working order. We present each contestant with a pile of sprockets, hoses, wires, clips, and metal parts of varying sizes and thickness. Their instructions are to rebuild this machine. We do not tell them what the machine is supposed to be. The good news is that the instruction manual is sitting right there. The bad news is that it's written in Polish. The pile is missing approximately seven to 20 percent of the machine's parts, without which the device may operate, but perhaps not in a way compatible with human life. Whoever's put-together machine leads to the fewest deaths advances to the next round.* The contestants are introduced to Big Jim. Big Jim has worked at the ski area since 1604. He has been through 45 ownership groups, knows everything about the mountain, and everyone on the mountain. Because of this, Big Jim knows you can't fire him lest you stoke a rebellion of labor and/or clientele. And he can tell you which pipes are where without you having to dig up half the mountain. But Big Jim keeps as much from getting done as he actually does. He resists the adoption of “fads” such as snowmaking, credit cards, and the internet. The challenge facing contestants is to get Big Jim to send a text message. He asks why the letters are arranged “all stupid” on the keyboard. The appearance of an emoji causes him to punch the phone several times and heave it into the woods.* Next we introduce the contestants to Fran and Freddy Filmore from Frankenmuth. The Filmores have been season passholders since the Lincoln Administration. They have nine kids in ski school, each of which has special dietary needs. Their phones are loaded with photos of problems: of liftlines, of dirt patches postholing trails, of an unsmiling parking attendant, of abandoned boot bags occupying cafeteria tables, of skis and snowboards and poles scattered across the snow rather than being placed on the racks that are right there for goodness sake. The Filmores want answers. The Filmores also want you to bring back Stray Cat Wednesdays, in which you could trade a stray cat for a lift ticket. But the Filmores are not actually concerned with solutions. No matter the quickness or efficacy of a remedy, they still “have concerns.” Surely you have 90 minutes to discuss this. Then the fire alarm goes off.* Next, the contestents will meet Hella Henry and his boys Donuts, Doznuts, Deeznuts, Jam Box, and 40 Ounce. HH and the Crushnutz Krew, as they call themselves, are among your most loyal customers. Though they are all under the age of 20, it is unclear how any of them could attend school or hold down a job, since they are at your hill for 10 to 12 hours per day. During that time, the crew typically completes three runs. They spend the rest of their time vaping, watching videos on their phones, and sitting six wide just below a blind lip in the terrain park. The first contestant to elicit a response from the Crushnutz Krew that is anything other than “that's chill” wins.The victor will win their very own ski area, complete with a several-thousand person Friends of [Insert Ski Area Name] group where 98 percent of the posts are complaints about the ski area. The ski center will be functional, but one popped bolt away from catastrophe in four dozen locations. The chairlifts will be made by a company that went out of business in 1912. The groomer will be towed by a yak. The baselodge will accommodate four percent of the skiers who show up on a busy day. The snowmaking “system” draws its water from a birdbath. Oh, and it's in the middle of nowhere in the middle of winter, and they're going to have to find people to work there.Oh, you love it Mr. Television Network Executive? That's so amazing. Now I can quit my job and just watch the money pile up. What do I do for a living? Well, I run a ski area.Hoppe won the contest. And I wanted to wish him luck.What I got wrongI lumped Ski Brule in with Pine Mountain as ski areas that are near Norway. While only 20-ish minutes separate Pine and Norway, Brule is in fact more than an hour away.Why you should ski Norway MountainYou can ski every run on Norway Mountain in one visit. There's something satisfying in that. You can drive off at the end of the day and not feel like you missed anything.There are hundreds of ski areas in North America like this. Most of them manage, somehow, to stuff the full spectrum of ski experience into an area equal to one corner of one of Vail's 90 or whatever Legendary Back Bowls. There are easy runs and hard runs. Long runs and short runs. Narrow runs and wide runs. Runs under the lifts and runs twisting through the trees. Some sort of tree-skiing. Some sort of terrain park. A little windlip that isn't supposed to be a cornice but skis like one, 9-year-olds leaping off it one after the next and turning around to watch each other after they land. Sometimes there is powder. Sometimes there is ice. Sometimes the grooming is magnificent. Sometimes the snow really sucks. Over two to four hours and 20 to 30 chairlift rides, you can fully absorb what a ski area is and why it exists.This is an experience that is more difficult to replicate at our battleship resorts, with 200 runs scribbled over successive peaks like a medieval war map. I ski these resorts differently. Where are the blacks? Where are the trees? Where are the bumps? I go right for them and I don't bother with anything else. And that eats up three or four days even at a known-cruiser like Keystone. In a half-dozen trips into Little Cottonwood Canyon, I've skied a top-to-bottom groomer maybe twice. Because skiing groomers at Alta-Snowbird is like ordering pizza at a sushi restaurant. Like why did you even come here?But even after LCC fluff, when I've descended back to the terrestrial realm, I still like skiing the Norway Mountains of the land. Big mountains are wonderful, but they come with big hassle, big crowds, big traffic, big attitudes, big egos. At Norway you can pull practically up to the lifts and be skiing seven minutes later, after booting up and buying your lift ticket. You can ski right onto the lift and the guy in the Carhartt will nod at you and if you're just a little creative and thoughtful every run will feel distinct. And you can roll into the chalet and grab a pastie and bomb the whole mountain again after lunch.And it will all feel different on that second lap. When there are 25 runs instead of 250, you absorb them differently. The rush to see it all evaporates. You can linger with it, mingle with the mountain, talk to it in a way that's harder up top. It's all so awesome in its own way.Podcast NotesOn Pando Ski CenterI grew up about two hours from the now-lost Pando Ski Center, but I never skied there. When I did make it to that side of Michigan, I opted to ski Cannonsburg, the still-functioning multi-lift ski center seven minutes up the road. Of course, in the Storm Wandering Mode that is my default ski orientation nowadays, I would have simply hit both. But that's no longer possible, because Cannonsburg purchased Pando in 2015 and subsequently closed it. Probably forever.Hoppe and I discuss this a bit on the pod. He actually tried to buy the joint. Too many problems with it, he was told. So he bought some of the ski area's snowguns and other equipment. Better that at least something lives on.Pando didn't leave much behind. The only trailmap I can find is part of this Ski write-up from February 1977:Apparently Pando was a onetime snowboarding hotspot. Here's a circa 2013 video of a snowboarder doing snowboarderly stuff:On CannonsburgWhile statistically humble, with just 250 vertical feet, Cannonsburg is the closest skiing to metropolitan Grand Rapids, Michigan, population 1.08 million. That ensures that the parks-oriented bump is busy at all times:On CaberfaeOne of Hoppe's (and my) favorite ski areas is Caberfae. This was my go-to when I lived in Central Michigan, as it delivered both decent vert (485 feet), and an interesting trail network (the map undersells it):The Meyer family has owned and operated Caberfae for decades, and they constantly improve the place. GM Tim Meyer joined me on the pod a few years back to tell the story.On Norway's proximity to Pine MountainNorway sits just 23 minutes down US 2 from Pine Mountain. The two ski areas sport eerily similar profiles: both measure 500 vertical feet and run two double chairs and one triple. Both face the twin challenges of low snowfall (around 60 inches per season), and a relatively thin local population base (Iron Mountain's metro area is home to around 32,500 people). It's no great surprise that Norway struggled in previous iterations. Here's a look at Pine:On Big TupperI mention Big Tupper as a lost ski area that will have an extra hard time coming back since it's been stripped (I think completely), of snowmaking. This ski area isn't necessarily totally dead: the lifts are still standing, and the property is going to auction next month, but it will take tens of millions to get the place running again. It was at one time a fairly substantial operation, as this circa 1997 trailmap shows:On Sneller chairliftsNorway runs two Sneller double chairs. Only one other Sneller is still spinning, at Ski Sawmill, a short and remote Pennsylvania bump. Lift Blog catalogued the machine here. It wasn't spinning when I skied Sawmill a couple of years ago, but I did snag some photos:On Norway's new logoIn general, animals make good logos. Hoppe designed this one himself:On social mediaHoppe has done a nice job of updating Norway's rebuild progress on social media, mostly via the mountain's Facebook page. Here are links to a few other social accounts we discussed:* Skiers and Snowboarders of the Midwest is a big champion of ski areas of all sizes throughout the region. The Midwest Skiers group is pretty good too.* Magic Mountain, Vermont, an underdog for decades, finally dug itself out of the afterthoughts pile at least in part due to the strength of its Instagram and Twitter presence.* The formerly dumpy Holiday Mountain, New York, has meticulously documented its rebuild under new ownership on Instagram and Facebook.On NeighborsMy 17-year-old brain could not comprehend the notion that two ski areas operated across the street from – and independent of – one another. But there they were: Nub's Nob and Boyne Highlands (now The Highlands), each an opposite turn off Pleasantview Road.We turned right, to Nub's, because we were in high school and because we all made like $4.50 an hour and because Nub's probably had like 10-Cent Tuesdays or something.I've since skied both mountains many times, but the novelty has never faded. Having one of something so special as a ski area in your community is marvelous. Having two is like Dang who won the lottery? There are, of course, examples of this all over the country – Sugarbush/Mad River Glen, Stowe/Smugglers' Notch, Alta/Snowbird, Timberline/Meadows/Skibowl – and it's incredible how distinct each one's identity remains even with shared borders and, often, passes.On UP ski areasMichigan's Upper Peninsula is a very particular animal. Only three percent of the state's 10 million residents live north of the Mackinac (pronounced Mackinaw) Bridge. Lower Peninsula skiers are far more likely to visit Colorado or Vermont than their far-north in-state ski areas, which are a 10-plus hour drive from the more populous southern tiers. While Bohemia's ultra-cheap pass and rowdy terrain have somewhat upset that equation, the UP remains, for purposes of skiing and ski culture, essentially a separate state.My point is that it's worth organizing the state's ski areas in the way that they practically exist in skiers minds. So I've separated the UP from the Lower Peninsula. Since Michigan is also home to an outsized number of town ropetows, I've also split surface-lift-only operations into their own categories:On last winter being very bad with record-low skier visitsSkier visits were down in every region of the United States last winter, but they all but collapsed in the Midwest, with a 26.7 percent plunge, according to the annual Kottke Demographic Report. Michigan alone was down nearly a half million skier visits. Check out these numbers:For comparison, overall skier numbers dropped just six percent in the Northeast, and five percent in the Rockies.The Storm publishes year-round. Join us.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 66/100 in 2024, and number 566 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

Siân Docksey and Joe Kent-Walters (aka Frankie Monroe) join host Alice Fraser for episode 179 of The Gargle.All of the news, with none of the politics.

Comedian Ryan Long returns to the show to talk about his new special “Problem Solved.” They also discuss Adam's trip to Las Vegas to see Eagles at the Sphere, brash vs. brazen, revisit Gillette's “toxic masculinity” Super Bowl commercial, and Adam lays down some seat reclining rules for Uber drivers. Next, Jason “Mayhem” Miller reads the news including stories about Donald Trump “working” at a McDonald's, a car insurance scam thwarted by a dash cam, a judge suspended because of his TikTok lip-synching, and a snowboarder who was running a violent cocaine ring. Then, the Nemeth Brothers join the show to talk about how their truck driver dad got them into wrestling, how their high school's wrestling practice was tougher than anything they did in the WWE, what it was like wrestling in front of empty rooms during Covid, and the tragic demise of parody movies like Kentucky Fried Movie. For more with Ryan Long: ● NEW SPECIAL: Problem Solved - available now on YouTube ● PODCAST: The Boyscast ● INSTAGRAM: @ryanlongcomedy ● TWITTER/X: @ryanlongcomedy ● WEBSITE: ryanlongcomedy.com For more with Nic Nemeth: ● PODCAST: Nemeth Bros ● INSTAGRAM: @NicNemeth ● TWITTER/X: @NicTNemeth For more with Ryan Nemeth: ● PODCAST: Nemeth Bros ● INSTAGRAM: @RyRyNemNem ● TWITTER/X: @RyRyNemNem Thank you for supporting our sponsors: ● http://SimpliSafe.com/Adam ● QualiaLife.com/Adam ● Shopify.com/carolla ● http://TommyJohn.com/Adam ● http://OReillyAuto.com/Adam ● http://Sendthevote.org/adam

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At the age of 17, not many of us find ourselves competing for World Cup titles, or speaking in front of the United Nations. But then there's Bea Kim. Bea is one of the most impressive yet down-to-earth teenagers you are probably going to meet, and you'll definitely want to get to know her and her story. Bea and Jonathan talk about some of the key moments of her journey, including getting on the Mammoth snowboard team; the importance of mentors — and who some of the important ones are in Bea's life; what she's working on and thinking about right now; and what some of her hopes & dreams are for the future.RELATED LINKS:Join Bea on Team PowBLISTER+ Get Yourself CoveredTOPICS & TIMES:Training in Saas-Fee, Switzerland (1:52)Bea's Training Schedule on Team USA (2:52)Airbags (6:42)First Time on a Board? (9:52)Mammoth Snowboard Team (16:05)Comps (20:20)Homing in on the Halfpipe (22:07)Mentors & Friends (25:01)Education (32:00)Speaking at the United Nations & Working w/ Protect Our Winters (41:01)Engaging Young People re: Climate Change (52:03)Back on Snow / What are You Working On? (1:04:46)The Upcoming Season (1:06:46)CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCASTSBlister CinematicCRAFTEDBikes & Big IdeasGEAR:30 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Sept. 15. It dropped for free subscribers on Sept. 22. To receive future pods as soon as they're live, and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription. You can also subscribe to the free tier below:WhoKelly Pawlak, President & CEO of the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA)Recorded onAugust 19, 2024About the NSAAFrom the association's website:The National Ski Areas Association is the trade association for ski area owners and operators. It represents over 300 alpine resorts that account for more than 90% of the skier/snowboarder visits nationwide. Additionally, it has several hundred supplier members that provide equipment, goods and services to the mountain resort industry.NSAA analyzes and distributes ski industry statistics; produces annual conferences and tradeshows; produces a bimonthly industry publication and is active in state and federal government affairs. The association also provides educational programs and employee training materials on industry issues including OSHA, ADA and NEPA regulations and compliance; environmental laws and regulations; state regulatory requirements; aerial tramway safety; and resort operations and guest service.NSAA was established in 1962 and was originally headquartered in New York, NY. In 1989 NSAA merged with SIA (Snowsports Industries America) and moved to McLean, Va. The merger was dissolved in 1992 and NSAA was relocated to Lakewood, Colo., because of its central geographic location. NSAA is located in the same office building as the Professional Ski Instructors of America and the National Ski Patrol in Lakewood, Colo., a suburb west of Denver.Why I interviewed herA pervasive sub-narrative in American skiing's ongoing consolidation is that it's tough to be alone. A bad winter at a place like Magic Mountain, Vermont or Caberfae Peaks, Michigan or Bluewood, Washington means less money, because a big winter at Partner Mountain X across the country isn't available to keep the bank accounts stable. Same thing if your hill gets chewed up by a tornado or a wildfire or a flood. Operators have to just hope insurance covers it.This story is not entirely incorrect. It's just incomplete. It is harder to be independent, whether you're Jackson Hole or Bolton Valley or Mount Ski Gull, Minnesota. But few, if any, ski areas are entirely and truly alone, fighting on the mountaintop for survival. Financially, yes (though many independent ski areas are owned by families or individuals who operate one or more additional businesses, which can and sometimes do subsidize ski areas in lean or rebuilding years). But in the realm of ideas, ski areas have a lot of help.That's because, layered over the vast network of 500-ish U.S. mountains is a web of state and national associations that help sort through regulations, provide ideas, and connect ski areas to one another. Not every state with ski areas has one. Nevada's handful of ski areas, for example, are part of Ski California. New Jersey's can join Ski Areas of New York, which often joins forces with Ski Pennsylvania. Ski Idaho counts Grand Targhee, Wyoming, as a member. Some of these associations (Ski Utah), enjoy generous budgets and large staffs. Others (Ski New Hampshire), accomplish a remarkable amount with just a handful of people. But layered over them all – in reach but not necessarily hierarchy – is the National Ski Areas Association. The NSAA helps ski areas where state associations may lack the scale, resources, or expertise. The NSAA organized the united, nationwide approach to Covid-era operations ahead of the 2020-21 ski season; developed and maintained the omnipresent Skier Responsibility Code; and help ski areas do everything from safely operate chairlifts and terrain parks to fend off climate change. Their regional and national shows are energetic, busy, and productive. Top representatives – the sorts of leaders who appear on this podcast - from every major national or regional ski area are typically present.This support layer, mostly invisible to consumers, is in some ways the concrete holding the nation's ski areas together. Most of even the most staunchly independent operators are members. If U.S. skiing were really made up of 500 ski areas trying to figure out snowmaking in 500 different ways, then we wouldn't have 500 ski areas. They need each other more than you might think. And the NSAA helps pull them all together.What we talked aboutLow natural snow, strong skier visits – the paradox of the 2023-24 ski season; ever-better snowmaking; explaining the ski industry's huge capital investments over recent years; European versus American lift fleets; lift investments across America; when it's time to move on from your dream job; 2017 sounds like yesterday but it may as well have been 1,000 years ago; the disappearing climate-change denier; can ski areas adapt to climate change?; the biggest challenges facing the NSAA's next leader, and what qualities that leader will need to deal with them; should ski areas be required to report injuries?; operators who are making progress on safety; are ski area liability waivers in danger?; the wild cost of liability insurance; how drones could help ski area safety; why is skiing still so white, even after all the DE&I?; why youth skier participation as a percentage of overall skier visits has been declining; and the enormous potential for indoor skiing to grow U.S. participation.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewFirst, Pawlak announced, in May, that she would step down from her NSAA role whenever the board could identify a capable replacement. She explains why on the podcast, but hers has been a by-all-accounts successful seven-year run amidst and through rapid and irreversible industry change – Covid, consolidation, multi-mountain passes, climate change, skyrocketing costs, the digitization of everything – and it was worth pausing to reflect on all that the NSAA had accomplished and all of the challenges waiting ahead.Second, our doomsday instincts keep running up against this stat: despite a fairly poor winter, snow-wise, the U.S. ski industry racked up the fifth-most skier visits of all time during its 2023-24 campaign. How is that possible, and what does it mean? I've explored this a little myself, but Pawlak has access to data that I don't, and she adds an extra dimension to our analysis.And this is true of so many of the topics that I regularly cover in this newsletter: capital investment, regulation, affordability, safety, diversity. This overlap is not surprising, given my stated focus on lift-served skiing in North America. Most of my podcasts bore deeply into the operations of a single mountain, then zoom out to center those ski areas within the broader ski universe. When I talk with the NSAA, I can do the opposite – analyze the larger forces driving the evolution of lift-served skiing, and see how the collective is approaching them. It's a point of view that very few possess, and even fewer are able to articulate. Questions I wish I'd askedWe recorded this conversation before POWDR announced that it had sold Killington and Pico, and would look to sell Bachelor, Eldora, and Silver Star in the coming months. I would have loved to have gotten Pawlak's take on what was a surprise twist in skiing's long-running consolidation.I didn't ask Pawlak about the Justice Department's investigation into Alterra's proposed acquisition of Arapahoe Basin. I wish I would have.What I got wrongI said that Hugh Reynolds was “Big Snow's head of marketing.” His actual role is Chief Marketing Officer for all of Snow Partners, which operates the indoor Big Snow ski area, the outdoor Mountain Creek ski area, and a bunch of other stuff.Podcast NotesOn specific figures from the Kotke Report:Pretty much all of the industry statistics that I cite in this interview come from the Kotke Demographic Report, an annual end-of-season survey that aggregates anonymized data from hundreds of U.S. ski areas. Any numbers that I reference in this conversation either refer to the 2022-23 study, or include historical data up to that year. I did not have access to the 2023-24 report until after our conversation.Capital expendituresPer the 2023-24 Kotke Report:Definitions of ski resort sizesAlso from Kotke:On European lift fleets versus AmericanComparing European skiing to American skiing is a bit like comparing futbol to American football – two different things entirely. Europe is home to at least five times as many ski areas as North America and about six times as many skiers. There are ski areas there that make Whistler look like Wilmot Mountain. The food is not only edible, but does not cost four times your annual salary. Lift tickets are a lot cheaper, in general. But it snows more, and more consistently, in North America; our liftlines are more organized; and you don't need a guide here to ski five feet off piste. Both are great and annoying in their own way. But our focus of difference-ness in this podcast was between the lift fleets on each continent. In brief, you're far more likely to stumble across a beefcaker on a random Austrian trail than you are here in U.S. America. Take a look at skiresort.info's (not entirely accurate but close enough), inventory of eight-place chairlifts around the world:On “Waterville with the MND lift”Pawlak was referring to Waterville Valley's Tecumseh Express, built in 2022 by France-based MND. It was the first and only lift that the manufacturer built in the United States prior to the dissolution of a joint venture with Bartholet. While MND may be sidelined, Pawlak's point remains valid: there is room in the North American market for manufacturers other than Leitner-Poma and Doppelmayr, especially as lift prices continue to escalate at amazing rates.On my crankiness with “the mainstream media” and climate changeI kind of hate the term “mainstream media,” particularly when it's used as a de facto four-letter word to describe some Power Hive of brainwashing elitists conspiring to cover up the government's injection of Anthrax into our Honey Combs. I regret using the term in our conversation, but sometimes in the on-the-mic flow of an interview I default to stupid. Anyway, once or twice per year I get particularly bent about some non-ski publication framing lift-served skiing as an already-doomed industry because the climate is changing. I'm not some denier kook who's stockpiling dogfood for the crocodile apocalypse, but I find this narrative stupid because it's reductive and false. The real story is this: as the climate changes, the ski industry is adapting in amazing and inventive ways; ski areas are, as I often say, Climate Change Super Adapters. You can read an example that I wrote here.On the NSAA's Covid responseThere's no reason to belabor the NSAA's Covid response – which was comprehensive and excellent, and is probably the reason the 2020-21 American ski season happened – here. I already broke the whole thing down with Pawlak back in April 2021. She also joined me – somewhat remarkably, given the then-small reach of the podcast – at the height of Covid confusion in April 2020 to talk through what in the world could possibly happen next.On The Colorado Sun's reporting on ski area safety and the NSAA's safety reportThe Colorado Sun consistently reports on ski area safety, and the ski industry's resistance to laws that would compel them to make injury reports public. I asked Pawlak about this, citing, specifically, this Sun article From April 8, 2024:[13-year-old] Silas [Luckett] is one of thousands of people injured on Colorado ski slopes every winter. With the state's ski hills posting record visitation in the past two seasons — reaching 14.8 million in 2022-23 — it would appear that the increasing frequency of injuries coincides with the rising number of visits. We say “appear” because, unlike just about every other industry in the country, the resort industry does not disclose injury data. …Ski resorts do not release injury reports. The ski resort industry keeps a tight grasp on even national injury data. Since 1980, the National Ski Areas Association provides select researchers with injury data for peer-reviewed reports issued every 10 years by the National Ski Areas Association. The most recent 10-year review of ski injuries was published in 2014, looking at 13,145 injury reports from the 2010-11 ski season at resorts that reported 4.6 million visits.The four 10-year reports showed a decline in skier injuries from 3.1 per 1,000 visitors in 1980-81 to 2.7 in 1990-91 to 2.6 in 2000-01 to 2.5 in 2010-11. Snowboarder injuries were 3.3 in 1990, 7.0 in 2000 and 6.1 in 2010.For 1990-91, the nation's ski areas reported 46.7 million skier visits, 2000-01 was 57.3 million and 2010-11 saw a then all–time high of 60.5 million visits. …The NSAA's once-a-decade review of injuries from 2020-21 was delayed during the pandemic and is expected to land later this year. But the association's reports are not available to the public [Pawlak disputes this, and provided a copy of the report to The Storm – you can view it here].When Colorado state Sen. Jessie Danielson crafted a bill in 2021 that would have required ski areas to publish annual injury statistics, the industry blasted the plan, arguing it would be an administrative burden and confuse the skiing public. It died in committee.“When we approached the ski areas to work on any of the details in the bill, they refused,” Danielson, a Wheat Ridge Democrat, told The Sun in 2021. “It makes me wonder what it is that they are hiding. It seems to me that an industry that claims to have safety as a top priority would be interested in sharing the information about injuries on their mountains.”The resort industry vehemently rebuffs the notion that ski areas do not take safety seriously.Patricia Campbell, the then-president of Vail Resorts' 37-resort mountain division and a 35-year veteran of the resort industry, told Colorado lawmakers considering the 2021 legislation that requiring ski resorts to publish safety reports was “not workable” and would create an “unnecessary burden, confusion and distraction.”Requiring resorts to publish public safety plans, she said, would “trigger a massive administrative effort” that could redirect resort work from other safety measures.“Publishing safety plans will not inform skiers about our work or create a safer ski area,” Campbell told the Colorado Senate's Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee in April 2021.On ASTM International Pawlak refers to “ASTM International” in the podcast. That is an acronym for “American Society for Testing and Materials,” an organization that sets standards for various industries. Here's an overview video that most of you will find fairly boring (I do, however, find it fascinating that these essentially invisible boards operate in the background to introduce some consistency into our highly confusing industrialized world):On Mammoth and Deer Valley's “everyone gets 15 feet” campaignThere's a cool video of this on Deer Valley's Instapost that won't embed on this page for some reason. Since Alterra owns both resorts, I will assume Mammoth's campaign is similar.On Heavenly's collision prevention programMore on this program, from NSAA's Safety Awards website:Heavenly orchestrated a complex collision prevention strategy to address a very specific situation and need arising from instances of skier density in certain areas. The ski area's unique approach leveraged detailed incident data and distinct geographic features, guest dynamics and weather patterns to identify and mitigate high-risk areas effectively. Among its efforts to redirect people in a congested area, Heavenly reintroduced the Lakeview Terrain Park, added a rest area and groomed a section through the trees to attract guests to an underutilized run. Most impressively, these innovative interventions resulted in a 52% year-over-year reduction of person-on-person collisions. Judges also appreciated that the team successfully incorporated creative thinking from a specialist-level employee. For its effective solutions to reduce collision risk through thoughtful terrain management, NSAA awarded Heavenly Mountain Resort with the win for Best Collision Prevention Program.On the Crested Butte accidentPawlak and I discuss a 2022 accident at Crested Butte that could end up having lasting consequences on the ski industry. Per The Colorado Sun:It was toward the end of the first day of a ski vacation with their church in March 2022 when Mike Miller and his daughter Annie skied up to the Paradise Express lift at Crested Butte Mountain Resort. The chair spun around and Annie couldn't settle into the seat. Mike grabbed her. The chair kept climbing out of the lift terminal. He screamed for the lift operator to stop the chair. So did people in the line. The chair kept moving. Annie tried to hold on to the chair. Mike tried to hold his 16-year-old daughter. The fall from 30 feet onto hard-packed snow shattered her C7 vertebrae, bruised her heart, lacerated her liver and injured her lungs. She will not walk again. The Miller family claims the lift operators were not standing at the lift controls and “consciously and recklessly disregarded the safety of Annie” when they failed to stop the Paradise chair. In a lawsuit the family filed in December 2022 in Broomfield County District Court, they accused Crested Butte Mountain Resort and its owner, Broomfield-based Vail Resorts, of gross negligence and “willful and wanton conduct.”In May, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on the incident, per SAM:In a 5-2 ruling, the Colorado Supreme Court found that liability waivers cannot be used to protect ski areas from negligence claims related to chairlift accidents. The decision will allow a negligence per se claim brought against Vail Resorts to proceed in the district courts.The decision, however, did not invalidate all waivers, as the NSAA clarified in the same SAM article:There was concern among outdoor activity operators in Colorado that the case might void liability waivers altogether, but the narrow scope of the decision has largely upheld the use of liability waivers to protect against claims pertaining to inherent risks.“While the Supreme Court carved out a narrow path where releases of liability cannot be enforced in certain, unique chairlift incidents, the media downplayed, if not ignored, a critical part of the ruling,” explained Dave Byrd, the National Ski Areas Association's (NSAA) director of risk and regulatory affairs. “Plaintiffs' counsel had asked the [Colorado] Supreme Court to overturn decades of court precedent enforcing the broader use of ALL releases in recreation incidents, and the court unanimously declined to make such a radical change with Colorado's long-standing law on releases and waivers—and that was the more important part of the court's decision from my perspective.”The Colorado Supreme Court's ruling “express[es] no view as to the ultimate merit of the claim,” rather it allows the Millers' claim to proceed to trial in the lower courts. It could be month or years before the lawsuit is concluded.On me knowing “all too well what it's like to be injured on a ski trip”Boy do I ever:Yeah that's my leg. Ouch.Don't worry. I've skied 102 days since that mangling.Here's the full story.On “Jerry of the Day”I have conflicted feelings on Jerry of the Day. Some of their posts are hilarious, capturing what are probably genuinely good and seasoned skiers whiffing in incredible fashion:Some are just mean-spirited and stupid:Funny I guess if you rip and wear it ironically. But it's harder to be funny than you may suppose. See The New Yorker's cloying and earnest (and never-funny), Shouts & Murmurs column.On state passport programsState passport programs are one of the best hacks to make skiing affordable for families. Run by various state ski associations, they provide between one and three lift tickets to every major ski area in the state for some grade range between third and fifth. A small administrative fee typically applies, but otherwise, the lift tickets are free. In most, if not all, cases, kids do not need to live in the state to be eligible. Check out the programs in New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, and Utah. Other states have them too – use the Google machine to find them.The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 58/100 in 2024, and number 558 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and to support independent ski journalism, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.WhoChauncy and Kelli Johnson, Founders of the Snow Angel FoundationRecorded onJune 17, 2024About the Snow Angel FoundationFrom their website:Our mission is to prevent ski and snowboard collisions so that everyone can Ride Another Day! We accomplish our mission through education and awareness to promote safe skiing and snowboarding behaviors. The Foundation was started as a result of a life changing collision and a desire to ensure that these types of collisions never happen again. Since 2016, we have been creating a social movement among skiers and snowboarders with the “Ride Another Day” campaign. Snow Angel Foundation, founded in 2023, is the vehicle that will expand this campaign and transform the culture of skiing and snowboarding into a safety-oriented community. Partner with us so we can all Ride Another Day!The “life changing collision” referred to above resulted in the death of this little girl, Elise Johnson, in 2010:Why I interviewed themThe first time I saw this, I felt like I got punched:I was skiing Snowbird, ground zero for aggressive, full-throttle skiing. The things you see there. The terrain invites it. The bottomless snow enables it. The cultish battle cries of packed-full tram cars demand it. Snowbird is a circus, an amphitheater, a place that scares the s**t out of anyone with a pulse. There aren't many beginners there. Or even intermediates. You're far more likely to smash your face into a rock than clip some meandering 8-year-old's tails when you drop into Silver Fox.But the contrast between that mountain and that message was powerful. For a subset of skiers, every ski day must be this sort of ski day, every run a showcase of their buckle-bending, torque-busting snow arcs. “Out of My Path, Mortals. You are all just traffic cones around which I dance. Admire me!” And it's like damn bro how are you single?That ski behaviors aren't transferable from High Baldy to Baby Thunder is a memo that too many skiers have yet to receive. Is anyone else tired of this? Of World Cup trials on blue groomers? Of the social media braggadocio and bravado about skiing six times the speed of light? Of knuckleheads conflating speed with skill? When I talk about The Brobots, this is a big part of what I mean: the sense of entitlement to do as they please with shared space, without regard for the impact their actions could have on others.I hope one or two of these people will listen to this podcast. And I hope they will stop threading the Buttercup Runout back to the Carebear Quad as though they were navigating an X-Wing through an asteroid belt. Speed is a big part of skiing's appeal. The power and adrenaline of it, the thrill. But there are places on the bump where it's appropriate to tuck and fly, and places where it just isn't. And I wish more of us knew the difference.What we talked aboutElise just “had a lot of light”; being a ski family; an awful Christmas Eve at Hogadon Basin; waking up six weeks later; recovering from grief; why the family kept skiing; transforming pain into activism; slow the F down Brah; who's doing a good job on safety; ski industry opposition to injury- and death-reporting regulations; and what we learned from the mass adoption of helmets.Podcast NotesOn couples on the podcastI mentioned I've hosted several husband-wife combinations on the podcast, mostly the owners of ski areas:* Plattekill, New York owners Laszlo and Danielle Vajtay* Paul Bunyan, Wisconsin owners TJ and Wendy Kerscher* West Mountain, New York owners Sara and Spencer MontgomeryOn Antelope ButteThe Johnsons' local is Antelope Butte, a little double-chair bump in northern Wyoming:On Snowy RangeThe Johnsons also spent time skiing Snowy Range, also in Wyoming:On Hogadon BasinThe incident in question went down on the Dreadnaught run at Hogadon Basin, a 600-vertical-foot bump 20 minutes south of Casper, Wyoming:On 50 First DatesBy her own account, Kelli's life for six weeks went about like this:On the Colorado Sun's research on industry opposition to safety-reporting requirementsFrom April 8, 2024:[13-year-old] Silas [Luckett] is one of thousands of people injured on Colorado ski slopes every winter. With the state's ski hills posting record visitation in the past two seasons — reaching 14.8 million in 2022-23 — it would appear that the increasing frequency of injuries coincides with the rising number of visits. We say “appear” because, unlike just about every other industry in the country, the resort industry does not disclose injury data. …Ski resorts do not release injury reports. The ski resort industry keeps a tight grasp on even national injury data. Since 1980, the National Ski Areas Association provides select researchers with injury data for peer-reviewed reports issued every 10 years by the National Ski Areas Association. The most recent 10-year review of ski injuries was published in 2014, looking at 13,145 injury reports from the 2010-11 ski season at resorts that reported 4.6 million visits.The four 10-year reports showed a decline in skier injuries from 3.1 per 1,000 visitors in 1980-81 to 2.7 in 1990-91 to 2.6 in 2000-01 to 2.5 in 2010-11. Snowboarder injuries were 3.3 in 1990, 7.0 in 2000 and 6.1 in 2010.For 1990-91, the nation's ski areas reported 46.7 million skier visits, 2000-01 was 57.3 million and 2010-11 saw a then all–time high of 60.5 million visits. …The NSAA's once-a-decade review of injuries from 2020-21 was delayed during the pandemic and is expected to land later this year. But the association's reports are not available to the public [the NSAA disputes this, and provided a copy of the report to The Storm; I'll address this in more detail in an upcoming, already-recorded podcast with NSAA president Kelly Pawlak].When Colorado state Sen. Jessie Danielson crafted a bill in 2021 that would have required ski areas to publish annual injury statistics, the industry blasted the plan, arguing it would be an administrative burden and confuse the skiing public. It died in committee.“When we approached the ski areas to work on any of the details in the bill, they refused,” Danielson, a Wheat Ridge Democrat, told The Sun in 2021. “It makes me wonder what it is that they are hiding. It seems to me that an industry that claims to have safety as a top priority would be interested in sharing the information about injuries on their mountains.”The resort industry vehemently rebuffs the notion that ski areas do not take safety seriously.Patricia Campbell, the then-president of Vail Resorts' 37-resort mountain division and a 35-year veteran of the resort industry, told Colorado lawmakers considering the 2021 legislation that requiring ski resorts to publish safety reports was “not workable” and would create an “unnecessary burden, confusion and distraction.”Requiring resorts to publish public safety plans, she said, would “trigger a massive administrative effort” that could redirect resort work from other safety measures.“Publishing safety plans will not inform skiers about our work or create a safer ski area,” Campbell told the Colorado Senate's Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee in April 2021.The Sun also compiles an annual report of deaths at Colorado ski areas.On helmet cultureProblems often seem intractable, the world fossilized. But sometimes simple things change so completely, and in such a short period of time, that it's almost impossible to imagine the world before. I was 19, for example, the first time I used the internet, and 23 when I acquired its evil cousin, the cellphone (which would not be usefully linked to the web for about another decade).In our little ski world, the thing-that-is-now-ubiquitous-that-once-barely-existed is helmets. As recently as the 1990s, you likely weren't dropping a bucket on your skull unless you were running gates on a World Cup circuit. It's not that we didn't know about them – helmets have been around since, like, the Bronze Age. But nobody wore them. Nobody. Then, suddenly, everyone did. Or, well, it seemed sudden, though it's surprising to see that, as recently as the 2002-03 ski season, only around 25 percent of skiers bothered to strap on a helmet:I was a late adopter when I first wore a helmet in 2016. And when I finally got there, I realized, hey, this thing is warm. It also came in handy when I slammed the back of my head into a downed tree at Jay Peak last March.I don't have hard stats on helmet usage going back to the 1990s, but check out this circa 1990s casual ski day vid at an unidentified U.S. mountain:I counted one helmet. On a kid. To underscore the point, here's a circa 1990s promo for Steamboat Ski Patrol, which captures the big-mountain crew rocking knit caps and goggles:The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 54/100 in 2024, and number 554 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

Lindsey Jacobellis was the darling of the 2022 Olympic Games with her double gold performance. But while Lindsey has always been a podium threat (she's a 10x X-Games Gold Medalist) when she crashed and took silver at the 2006 Olympic Games, the world made her a villain and now, almost 20 years later, she finally has that Olympic Gold. This episode is all about Lindsey's incredible redemption story, and we talk about her upbringing, Palmer, the Olympic blunder, winning, and so much more. Alex Diebold asks Inappropriate Questions.  Lindsey Jacobellis Show Notes: 4:00:  Taking out a teacher, Stratton Mountain School, growing up in CT as the daredevil kid 12:00:  Chasing around her brother, being isolated, tight family, skiing, snowboarding, choosing one, 24:00:  Club Med:  Click here for the best vacation of your life Stanley:  The brand that invented the category! Only the best for Powell Movement listeners.  Check out Stanley1913.com   Best Day Brewing:  All of the flavor of your favorite IPA or Kolsch, without the alcohol, the calories and sugar. 27:00:  Friday night races at Stratton, the Andy Coghlan connection, crushing it as a Freshman at SMS, the US Open at Stratton, Burton, and other boards, Shaun Palmer, and traveling with her dad.  41:00: Peter Glenn Ski and Sports:  Over 60 years of getting you out there.   Elan Skis:  Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better. Outdoor Research: Click here for 25% off Outdoor Research products (not valid on sale items or pro products) 44:00: Forerunning halfpipe the SLC Olympics, Boarder Cross, X Games, and her crazy run leading up to the 2006 Olympics, 60:00: Specializing on Boardercross, 2006 Olympic pressure, sponsorship, Olympic highlights before competing, the Olympic mishap heard around the world and the aftermath, and getting dropped 77:00: Groundhog Day with the Olympic media over the years, seeing a sports psychologist,  breaking her arm leading up to the 2022 Olympics, and winning gold. 91:00: Inappropriate Questions with Alex Diebold

Introducing the new season of The Snowboard Project    This year we will cover two subjects that every snowboarder has in common: Where to ride and what gear to ride with.    We will release seven episodes on places to ride and seven episodes on the best brands in the sport.    The Snowboard Project is brought to you by Slush the Magazine.

Tommy Czeschin was born into a life of mountains and lakes, so it's no surprise that he loves snowboarding and water sports-but what's shocking is that he was able to go pro in both. Not too bad for the quiet kid with talent who started ski racing and was the forerunner for the Jr Olympics before seeing snowboarding and making the switch. Within 5 years, he was traveling the world with the US Snowboard Team, standing on the top of World Cup podiums, winning X Games medals, and eventually making the 2002 Olympic Team.  After his snowboarding, he was an early adopter of wake surfing and these days, he gets paid to ride behind a boat among other things. It's kind of like Deion Sanders, Bo Jackson, or a Shaun White-type story, only different. Don Wallace asks the “Inappropriate Questions” Tommy Czeschin Show Notes: 4:00:  Wake Surf trips, growing up near Mammoth, ski racing, and snowboarding    12:00:  Early contests, Mammoth snowboard team, making the US Snowboard Team and the traveling family 19:00:  Liquid Force: Since 95, Liquid Force has outperformed the competition and turned a sport into a lifestyle. Use the code POWELL15 for 15% off LF orders at LiquidForce.com Stanley:  The brand that invented the category! Only the best for Powell Movement listeners.  Check out Stanley1913.com   Best Day Brewing:  All of the flavor of your favorite IPA or Kolsch, without the alcohol, the calories and sugar. 22:00:  Pranks, his personality, sponsors, so many different events, 2002 Olympics, money, faith, and the end of snowboarding 38:30:   Peter Glenn Ski and Sports:  Over 60 years of getting you out there.   Elan Skis:  Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better. Outdoor Research:  Click here for 25% off Outdoor Research products (not valid on sale items or pro products)  41:30:  Athletes, coaching success, The order of Ikos, wake surfing, Crowley Wake, Liquid Force, 48:00:  So many categories within wake, working with boat brands, other jobs, and The Great Race  55:00:  Inappropriate Questions with Don Wallace