The Double Chair Podcast

We talk with Ripitz about ski movies of the past, present, and future Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedoublechairpodcast/ Email us at thedoublechairpodcast@gmail.com Thanks to Beat Mekanik for our intro and outro music, you can find him at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/beat-mekanik/

CORRECTION: In this episode I misidentify Jeremy Jones as Todd Jones. Jeremy Jones is the snowboarder, Todd Jones is a skier and founder of TGR. I’m not sure if we stir the pot, talk shit or just devolve into mushy both-sidesism but we discuss Cody Townsend (pro skier) and Jonathan Ellsworth (host of the Blister podcast) and their critique of Stuart Winchester’s recent interview of Rob Katz, CEO o...

The countdown to winter begins Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedoublechairpodcast/ Email us at thedoublechairpodcast@gmail.com Thanks to Beat Mekanik for our intro and outro music, you can find him at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/beat-mekanik/

CORRECTION: In this episode, I state that Indy Pass gets you access to over 450 resorts. The number is actually 250. We are joined once again by our buddy Collin to do a quick run down of the ski pass landscape, including the big multi passes, traditional season passes, Indy Pass, the new Indy Pass Learn to Turn triple, the new Snow Triple Play (great for new skiers looking for a couple days) and...

Talking about the summer, junior took a trip to Big Snow in New Jersey Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedoublechairpodcast/ Email us at thedoublechairpodcast@gmail.com Thanks to Beat Mekanik for our intro and outro music, you can find him at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/beat-mekanik/

This is the season finale episode Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedoublechairpodcast/ Email us at thedoublechairpodcast@gmail.com Thanks to Beat Mekanik for our intro and outro music, you can find him at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/beat-mekanik/

Let’s be honest. This is a low effort episode. We talk about what our mountains do during the summer. Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedoublechairpodcast/ Email us at thedoublechairpodcast@gmail.com Thanks to Beat Mekanik for our intro and outro music, you can find him at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/beat-mekanik/

We once again talk with Ripitz about his adventures in the Hudson valley and Catskills and also take a deep-ish dive into the life of Jackrabbit Johansen, legendary Adirondack and Canadian skier and bushwacker. https://vault.si.com/vault/1979/12/10/the-old-man-and-the-ski-herman-jackrabbit-smith-johannsen-began-skiing-102-years-ago-and-hes-still-going-strong https://skihall.com/hall-of-famers/herm...

Junior takes center stage to tell us about his trip to Jay and Robert talks about the recent Rail Jam at Snow Ridge, leading to some more nostalgia about the 90s and snowboard culture’s influence on the skiing world and other stuff like that. Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedoublechairpodcast/ Email us at thedoublechairpodcast@gmail.com Thanks to Beat Mekanik for our intro and o...

We talk with Ripitz about skiing the Catskills the hard way, skiing at Belleayre, his time ski bumming in France and Montana and other stuff too. Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedoublechairpodcast/ Email us at thedoublechairpodcast@gmail.com Thanks to Beat Mekanik for our intro and outro music, you can find him at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/beat-mekanik/

We talk with Collin Parsons about ski lifts Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedoublechairpodcast/ Email us at thedoublechairpodcast@gmail.com Thanks to Beat Mekanik for our intro and outro music, you can find him at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/beat-mekanik/

We talk with Collin Parsons about a variety of things, attempting to tap into his talent for research and data collation/ interpretation. This is Part 1 of our first 2 part episode Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedoublechairpodcast/ Email us at thedoublechairpodcast@gmail.com Thanks to Beat Mekanik for our intro and outro music, you can find him at https://freemusicarchive.org/m...

We talk with ThatNYskierabout backcountry skiing in the Adirondacks Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedoublechairpodcast/ Email us at thedoublechairpodcast@gmail.com Thanks to Beat Mekanik for our intro and outro music, you can find him at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/beat-mekanik/

We talk about spring skiing and pond skimming Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedoublechairpodcast/ Email us at thedoublechairpodcast@gmail.com Thanks to Beat Mekanik for our intro and outro music, you can find him at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/beat-mekanik/

In this episode we once again talk with Harvey from NYSkiBlog. We chat about his first time visit to Holiday Mountain, ski stories in the news and other stuff Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedoublechairpodcast/ Email us at thedoublechairpodcast@gmail.com Thanks to Beat Mekanik for our intro and outro music, you can find him at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/beat-mekanik/

We interview Julie McGuire (@queenofthecatskillsny) about skiing all the Catskill High Peaks over 3500 feet, Windham, uphilling policies at various resorts, Winter4kids and other things as well. https://www.winter4kids.org/campus/ Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedoublechairpodcast/ Email us at thedoublechairpodcast@gmail.com Thanks to Beat Mekanik for our intro and outro music,...

In This episode, we talk about Robert’s recent snowboarding injury and our past injuries, both ski-related and not. We talk bout Montage Mountin in Scranton, PA and the Indy Pass and we try our hand at poetry with a few skiing themed haikus. Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedoublechairpodcast/ Email us at thedoublechairpodcast@gmail.com Thanks to Beat Mekanik for our intro and ou...

In this episode we discuss the Attitash lift failure, rollbacks, surface lifts and private ski clubs along with a brief discussion of the Bosquet Tow gripper…. https://nyskiblog.com/mount-greylock-ski-club/ Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedoublechairpodcast/ Email us at thedoublechairpodcast@gmail.com Thanks to Beat Mekanik for our intro and outro music, you can find him at http...

In this episode we interview Peter Minde. He is NYSkiblog’s primary writer on the topic of Nordic skiing. We chat about Nordic skiing and the Olympic facilities at Mount Van Hovenberg in the Adirondacks Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedoublechairpodcast/ Email us at thedoublechairpodcast@gmail.com Thanks to Beat Mekanik for our intro and outro music, you can find him at https://...

We talked to Harvey from NYSkiBlog about his mission to ski every area in New York State Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedoublechairpodcast/ Email us at thedoublechairpodcast@gmail.com Thanks to Beat Mekanik for our intro and outro music, you can find him at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/beat-mekanik/

In this episode we talk to long time Plattekill ski instructor and skiing enthusiast Sean Riley. We talk about learning to ski in northern New Jersey at Campgaw Mountain, his (and our) love of skiing and snowboarding, whether or not this love constitutes an “addiction” and how the sport has changed over the years… a few relevant links https://nyskiblog.com/forum/threads/campgaw-2-16-2019.64/    ht...

We are Brownskii (Andy) and Keukaboi (Robert). We both write about skiing for NYSkiblog.com. We love skiing and snowboarding. This is the introductory episode of The Double Chair Podcast. This podcast is named after the Double Chair at Plattekill Mountain in Roxbury, NY but really it’s named for all the fixed grip double and triple chairlifts all over upstate New York. We believe that these ski li...