The Boston Ski Party

We're joined in studio by Tom Ritsch during his stop in Boston with the TGR team to premiere their 2023 film. Tom is an Austrian-born freeskier who unexpectedly got the call to shoot with TGR last March. This was Tom’s first time shooting with TGR and he took full advantage of the opportunity and ended up playing a huge role in a banger heli-skiing segment in the new movie. Support the show by usi...

We are joined in studio by Jonathan Ellsworth, founder of Blister Review. Blister is one of the most popular and well-respected outlets for gear reviews in the world of winter sports. Since Jonathan is the man behind the vision it only makes sense that most of our conversation was centered in gear review talk. https://theskimonster.com/ https://www.instagram.com/theskimonster/ https://x.com/TheSki...

We are joined in studio by Salomon athletes Stan Rey, Alexi Godbout, and Josh Daiek on their stop in Boston for the QST Film Tour. We covered a wide range of topics from how these three became pro skiers, pivotal moments in their careers, to what it was like working on their recent projects last winter. https://theskimonster.com/ https://www.instagram.com/theskimonster/ https://x.com/TheSkiMonster...

We are joined in studio by our good friend and Tecnica/Blizzard sales rep Adam Sink to draft the best product names we've seen in our many many years in the ski industry.

We are joined in studio by Jonah Williams, who was in Boston to premiere his newly released project "Who is Sim." Jonah’s a pro skier out of Utah who started gaining recognition after winning Level 1’s Superunkown contest back in 2015. Since then, he's become known as one of the dopest and most well-rounded skiers in the game. From major film segments, to edits that broke the internet, to clips th...

Eric, Garrett, Tate, and Joe sit down to draft and discuss the best spots for Après sessions.

We sat down for a phone call with Joe Johnson, the Alpine and Nordic marketing manager at Salomon. Joe starts off by telling us how he got from "Alta University" to the position he's in today. Joe gives his perspective on the past, present, and future state of skis, boots, and bindings at Salomon. The brand is a major player in all 3 hardgoods categories, so Joe has a lot to juggle.

We sat down for a phone call with Andrew Couperthwait, VP of Head Skis to talk about some of the current ongoings at Head/Tyrolia, some exciting stuff each company has on the way, and Coup tells us about some key factors that have contributed to maintaining the brand’s success. He tells us about some innovations happening on both the ski and binding side, and specifically explains the function of...

We are joined in studio by Hunter Henderson for a dope conversation with the U.S. Freeski Team member, Red Bull athlete, and 2026 Winter Olympic hopeful among many other things. Hunter's originally an east coast guy, so we spent a lot of time talking to Hunter about growing up in NH, coming up as an east coast skier, and specific factors and experiences that set him up for a career as a profession...

We are joined in studio by none other than Dan Egan. If you're not familiar with Dan, he's a pioneer of extreme skiing, starred in 13 Warren Miller films, and worked closely with Warren Miller Entertainment spanning from the late 80s to the early 2010s. This was a perfect time to talk to Dan because of a recent announcement that for the first time in 74 years, Warren Miller Entertainment will not...

We are joined in studio by Ben Fresco, the Product Manager at Elan USA, to discuss the all-new Elan Playmaker series. The Playmaker 91 and Playmaker 101 are a series of freeride twin-tip skis that will be part of the 2023/2024 Elan Skis lineup, and we here at TSM couldn’t be more stoked. Fresco takes us through the production process from start to finish: From the vision to prototyping to the fini...

We sat down in studio to discuss our top-tested skis for the upcoming 23/24 season. Testing is our life here at TSM. It’s how we get familiar with product, curate our inventory, and ultimately guide the end consumer in figuring out what makes the most sense for them. This past season, our staff notched around 30 total test days at over 25 resorts and got on next year’s product from just about ever...

We are joined in studio by Jason Roe and Valarie Kechian from Atomic to talk Atomic boots. Jason grew up in Canada and moved to Austria 20 years ago to start at Atomic and is now the Business Director of the Alpine Boots side of the brand. Valarie has been in the industry for about a decade and is now a Commercial Product Specialist at Atomic. We talked a little bit about the history of ski boots,...

We are joined in studio by Christian Avery, the North American Product manager at Blizzard-Tenica to discuss the all-new 23/24 Blizzard Rustler and Sheeva collection. The bulk of our conversation revolves around the new skis; Christian tells us about the development process from start to finish and the decision-making that goes into changing an established product. We also chopped it up about BOA...

We are joined in studio by Tanner McCarty, the former team manager at Ride Snowboards. Tanner has been one of the most important behind-the-scenes guys in snowboarding for the better part of a decade, spending the majority of those years at Ride. We talk about how he went from working at Eastern Boarder when he might have been too young to work at Eastern Boarder, to playing a huge role at one of...

We headed up to the Marker/Dalbello/Volkl US headquarters to check out their DOPE new showroom space, get a sneak peek of their 2024 line-up, and record this pod. We sat down with Ivar Dahl, the National Sales Manager at MDV. We hear a bit about the Ivar origin story, some of the exciting stuff they have going on at MDV, and we discuss the current demands of the ski-buying market and what Volkl is...

We sat down with Cyrus Schenck, founder of Renoun, a (mostly) ski brand based out of Burlington, VT. We chopped it up with Cyrus about his window-washing career, how that led to him launching Renoun, and what went into the revolutionary technology that goes into his skis. On top of all that the episode also features some interaction between the crew and an AI bot that might know more about skis th...

We are joined by Tom Monterosso a.k.a. T Bird. T Bird spent 13 years at Snowboarder Magazine where he made a name for himself covering some of snowboarding's most iconic stories for the publication. In recent years, T Bird has taken on different types of media-related projects than he had typically done for Snowboarder. He's announced some of the biggest events in snowboarding, and most recently w...

We are joined by Jim Ryan, who dropped by the studio during his trip to Boston for the premiere of the new Teton Gravity Research movie, Magic Hour. After Jim blows our minds with a story about a recent ski trip he took in which he found himself bushwhacking through the Chilean jungle with cowboys and horses, we talk to Jim about his massive 2022 season. He spent the year crafting an epic segment...

We are joined in studio by Madison Rose Ostergren who was in Boston with Warren Miller Entertainment premiering their 2022 movie, Daymaker. Madison is a pro skier out of Jackson Hole and has spent the last few seasons emerging onto the scene taking part in a number of badass film projects. Madison gives us some background on how being a ski racer from the midwest turned into landing a two page spr...

We traveled up to Burlington, Vermont, and sat down with Jason Levinthal in his new Intergalactic Headquarters. We get into his early days starting the first company to bring twin tip skis to market, some of the groundbreaking products he introduced with Line Skis, to being bought by K2 Sports and handed the responsibility of creating the Full Tilt boot brand on top of continuing Line, and how tha...

We sat down with Kyle Smaine on a video call from the house that he sort of owns in Lake Tahoe. We talk to the former halfpipe world champ about what he's been up to since leaving the competition scene roughly 5 years ago. Kyle talks about how his relationship with his long-time sponsor, Fischer Skis has progressed from just an athlete-brand relationship into a much more involved role on the produ...

We sat down with Neil Soucy, the snowboard buyer here at TSM, to discuss some of the differences that we’re seeing between the ski industry and the snowboard industry right now. We talk about some of the things we see on both sides of the business and compare how they’re done in skiing vs. how they’re done in snowboarding. As a snowboard buyer, Neil provides a strong perspective on what he thinks...

We sat down with Ben Fresco, the Marketing and Product Manager at Elan Skis USA. We get into Ben’s ski industry background, starting off with stories of selling gear to Geraldo Rivera and MLB umpires in Lake Tahoe, to eventually moving back east to get started at Elan. We talk about the rampant success the Elan brand has seen in recent years, specifically in the free ride category with the Ripstic...

For the 10th episode of the Boston Ski Party, we have a very special episode for you. The Ski Monster cofounders George and Eric sit down to give you the full, unfiltered TSM origin story. Starting from their days as ambitious college kids with an idea to start a ski retail site, all the way through the insane twists and turns it’s taken to get TSM to where it’s at today. There has been no shortag...