Tag: ski industry

A ski patroller turned journalist confronts Tahoe’s warming winters as rain replaces snow, seasons shrink, and science warns of a low-snow future, threatening mountain culture in the American West.

Revisiting the early days of the freestyle movement that brought terrain parks to the mainstream.

One day, iconic pro skier Shane McConkey was rehabbing an injury and looking for something fun to do. Fellow misfit, Saucer Boy, convinced Shane that he could put snowlerblading on the map. And so the Pain McShlonkey Open was born.