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Reviews & Previews – Fischer for 2016-17
FIS Brand Rankings are fun to browse (for Fischer fans) What can we say about Fischer? As a brand they dominate racing, from citizen racing all the way to the World Cup. Since FIS started tracking...
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Reviews & Previews – Ski Trab for 2016
Daniele and Adriano Trabucchi at their factory Last August we visited the Ski Trab factory in Bormio, Italy. We spent a little time with Adriano and Daniele Trabucchi – the brothers who run the...
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Ski Picking Trip #1
Ready for boarding Amy and I are in terminal E at Logan Airport, ready to board a flight to Munich for our first ski picking trip of the year. Gunnar skipped school for the day to come down to Boston...
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A New Ten
Tad took this one literally moments after the accident. The pain hadn’t even reached its peak yet. “How is your pain, on a scale from one to ten?” I was lying on my left side, with my cheek in the...
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Medical and Shop Update
In my last update I wrote a pretty introspective piece about lying on the ground in the woods, broken. I had been through a round of surgeries, and was in the midst of the weeks-long series of medical...
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Fall Ski Selection Trip!
For the past five years Amy and I have split our ski selection obligations out over two trips to Europe; one in the spring, and one in the late summer or early fall. The later trip has turned out to be...
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Facing Down the Klister Demons
I recently sat down with Tad Elliott to lecture him about klister skiing. Tad is an accomplished racer, with many of his most impressive classic race performances coming in klister conditions. But when...
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What about Man-Made Snow?
Demo day at Craftsbury in December of last year was another Craftsbury miracle. There is snow there… see it? Just to the left of Amy? In the east we’re getting pretty accustomed to skiing on manmade...
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Noah Hoffman Lives in a Fantasy World
Would you like to know what’s not a fantasy? 782 hours and 9 minutes of training since the start of April. Seven months, averaging nearly 112 hours a month. 30 weeks averaging over 26 hours a week. The...
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West Yellowstone Testing 2016
Early Season Testing Report For the past two weeks most of the US-based racing scene has been focused on West Yellowstone, Montana. For the past several years Amy has made the trip to West to test wax...
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Craftsbury Eastern Cup Day 1
Do you ever feel like your waddling side to side when you herringbone? I don’t think Paddy Caldwell feels that way. He appears to step up the hill a bit. The most reliably awesome venue in the east has...
View ArticleUS Nationals 2017 – 1/5 Pre-Race Report
Conditions at Soldier Hollow over the past two days have run the gamut from rain yesterday afternoon to a cold morning of temps at about -18F when our testing started. The course preparation has been…...
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US Nationals 2017 – 1/8 Race Report
Testers heading out on a chilly morning. Jeremy is always slow in the paired glide-outs because of his big wax pants. But they keep swapping skis, and get good results. I always promise myself that I’m...
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Birkie Prognostication
We’re not going to the American Birkebeiner this year, which means that we’re free to prognosticate from home without any big chance of having to eat our words. We won’t be offering an official wax...
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Turnamic Questions
Most ski equipment nerds (if you’re reading this, then that’s you) have heard that Fischer and Rossignol have introduced a new binding for next year. Like everybody, we’ve had a lot of questions. This...
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Time for Action
Protect Our Winters Pre-order partnership on Earth Day supports ski-focused climate change activism. We are lucky to have a business that allows us to pursue our passion as a job, and to earn a living...
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Here We Go Again – Salomon Excitement
Summer inevitably ends in a mad acceleration of fun, squeezed into an ever-tightening timeframe, and terminating in the long grind of the fall season. We’re in it now – just home from Colorado, where...
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European Weekend Shenanigans
We usually try to schedule some fun adventures into our European ski selection trips. Anytime we can turn a business trip into a vacation it reminds us how lucky we are to have carved out our little...
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Keeping Up With Madshus
We don’t often worry, or even think much, about the layers of ownership involved in the ski industry. But last October, Newell Brands announced that it would be selling off its winter sports holdings...
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Back to Norway – Madshus Preview
Next week we will go on our third ski selection trip of the year – this time to Norway. Wait. What? Three trips? Yes. Three trips. We used to go on only one trip to Europe each year, but then we...
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