Last season, Ted Ligety ruled the ski world. With six giant slalom wins on the World Cup tour, he brought home his fourth Audi FIS World Cup giant slalom title as well as an overall third place finish. At the World Championships, Ligety won gold for the first time in super G and super combined […]
Ski Racing
Shut Up and Ski (And Read This Book!)
A Winner From the Start Within minutes of starting Shut Up and Ski: Wipeouts, shootouts and blowouts on the trail to the Olympic dream by Edie Thys Morgan, I knew I was going to love this book. In addition to being a fine writer and ski journalist, Morgan is a former member of the U.S. Ski […]
Tight Turns: EpicMix Racing, Liftopia Update and One Horn Tooting
New This Winter: EpicMix Racing This season, Vail Resorts is replacing NASTAR with EpicMix Racing at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Heavenly and Northstar. It’s a big blow to NASTAR. In 2011, Vail Mountain had 6,849 NASTAR racers with 29,310 starts, making it the most popular NASTAR mountain in the country. So how will EpicMix racing work? […]
Women’s Ski Jumping: A New Film Shares a Dream Worth Fighting For
In 2010, many of the world’s best athletes gathered in British Columbia to compete in the Winter Olympics. The Olympic Games are meant to provide a venue for competition free of politics and prejudice. But at those games, and all previous winter games, one group of athletes was excluded because of nothing more than their […]
Happy Mother’s Day: Shannon Bahrke Talks About Her Ski Mom
I’m on the phone with Shannon Bahrke. You know, the Freestyle skier with the ready smile and colorful hair who skis moguls with the energy of the Roadrunner and the Tasmanian Devil combined. I’m calling Shannon to talk about her mom. It’s April and I’m preparing a post for Mother’s Day. In December, I briefly […]