by Dan Giesin | Mar 20, 2023 | Beginner, Blog, Expert, Intermediate, Ski Industry News
On a clear day, high above the treeline, you float through pristine powder, leaving a trail of cold smoke in your wake. It’s just you and your ski buddy, enjoying lap after lap of exhilarating, top-quality powder turns. It’s what all skiers and snowboarders...
by Dan Giesin | Mar 15, 2023 | Beginner, Expert, Intermediate, Ski Industry News
You’ve been skiing — and, let’s admit it, oftentimes flailing — at Mt. Wannabe for years, and you still can’t seem to make that next step that will up your game. And though you thoroughly enjoy puttering around the hill, skiing over the same old, same old day after...
by Dan Giesin | Mar 8, 2023 | Beginner, Blog, Expert, Intermediate, Ski Industry News
Skiing has been around for quite some time — there are cave paintings of our Ice Age forebears chasing game on wooden slats — but it’s only been in the last century or so that the activity morphed from a mundane, generally pastoral and/or hunting activity into an...
by Dan Giesin | Feb 28, 2023 | Beginner, Blog, Expert, Intermediate, Ski Industry News
No matter where you are in snow country, the winter of 2022-23 has been something of a challenge: Too much snow out West, too little back East, and too much down time because of that. So I say it’s high time we bid Old Man Winter adieu — for better or for worse — and...
by Dan Giesin | Feb 22, 2023 | Beginner, Blog, Expert, Intermediate, Ski Industry News
We’re just going to throw it right out there: Reno can make a great case for itself as being the best base camp in North America for skiers and snowboarders. Tucked up against the east side of the northern Sierra Nevada range and inside an hour’s drive away from that...
