The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored by Mountain Gazette  - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch. Who Frank DeBerry, President and CEO of Crystal Mountain , Washington Recorded on October 18, 2021 Why I interviewed him Because Crystal is one of the under-appreciated giants of North American skiing. It has more inbounds skiable terrain than Jackson Hole and gets more...

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored by Mountain Gazette  - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch. Who Ed Grice, General Manager of Boyne Mountain , Michigan and Kari Roder, the ski area’s Director of Marketing Recorded on October 12, 2021 Why I interviewed him Context is everything in skiing. In much of America’s sprawling ski kingdom, Boyne Mountain would hardly re...

Who Laurie Blampied, General Manager of Mt. Buller , Australia Recorded on Oct. 4, 2021 in New York City; Oct. 5, 2021 at Mt. Buller, Australia – weird, right? Why I interviewed him One of the quirks of living on planet Earth is the fact of its tilted axis. Because of this, we not only have seasons, but different seasons in different places at the same time. There’s a multiverse feeling to all thi...

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored by Mountain Gazette  - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch. Who Tim Cohee, Managing Partner, CEO, and General Manager of China Peak Mountain Resort , California Recorded on September 28, 2021 Why I interviewed him Because China Peak, an independent operation situated on the Southwest side of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains,...

Who Mike Kaplan, CEO of Aspen Skiing Company Recorded on Sept. 24, 2021 Why I interviewed him Vail may rule the American skiing economy, but Aspen remains king of the nation’s popular skiing imagination. From Aspen Extreme to Dumb and Dumber , the town and its mountains serve as the stand-in for big-mountain Western skiing as a whole, one word that communicates to skiers and non-skiers the essence...

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored by Mountain Gazette  - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch. Who David Norden, CEO of Taos Ski Valley , New Mexico Recorded on Sept. 13, 2021 Why I interviewed him It’s a map dot perched improbably in the nation’s southwest pocket, in a state that evokes and largely is scrubland and desert. Seated at roughly the same latitude as...

Who Charles Skinner, Co-President and co-owner of Lutsen Mountains, Minnesota; and President and owner of Granite Peak, Wisconsin Recorded on August 30, 2021 Why I interviewed him Because my God, these mountains: They are improbable enough in the Midwest that few have had the audacity to even imagine ski areas of this size and variety. Enormous and interesting places, cut with endless glades and h...

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored by Mountain Gazette  - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch. Who John Emery, CEO of Alpine-X Recorded on August 2, 2021 Why I interviewed him It’s such an odd conceit, isn’t it? Skiing indoors. Like surfing or mountain climbing or hunting or riding a bike, skiing belongs, in our collective imaginations, to the wide world and all...

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored by Mountain Gazette  - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch. Who Tim Meyer, Co-Owner and General Manager of Mountain Operations at Caberfae Peaks , Michigan Recorded on July 21, 2021 Why I interviewed him In the part of my brain warehousing ski memories there are days and places that live forever. Many of those days are at Caberf...

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored by Mountain Gazette  - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch. Who Mike Lavertu, President of the board of directors of Lonesome Pine Trails, Maine Recorded on July 13, 2021 Why I interviewed him If you’ve ever skied Maine, you probably felt as though you’d arrived at the end of the earth. And if you’ve skied Maine, you’ve probably...

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored by Mountain Gazette  - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch. Who Jon Hunt, Executive Director of Whaleback Mountain, New Hampshire Recorded on June 16, 2021 Why I interviewed him Because when Talks-Loudly-About-His-Personal-Life-In-The-Elevator-at-Work Guy brags about his upcoming ski trip, he is never going to Whaleback. He is g...

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored in part by Mountain Gazette  - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch. Who Bruce Monette Jr., co-owner of Titus Mountain , New York Recorded on June 7, 2021 Why I interviewed him Titus is perched at the snowy top of New York, an hour and change past Lake Placid, which for most of the state’s skiers already feels like the edge of th...

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored in part by: * Mountain Gazette  - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch. * Helly Hansen  - Listen to the podcast to learn how to get an 18.77 percent discount at the Boston and Burlington, Vermont stores. Who Scott Brandi, President of Ski Areas of New York Recorded on May 17, 2021 Why I interviewed him Because I spent this winter...

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored in part by: * Mountain Gazette  - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch. * Helly Hansen  - Listen to the podcast to learn how to get an 18.77 percent discount at the Boston and Burlington, Vermont stores. Who Doug Fish, President and Founder of the Indy Pass Recorded on April 26, 2021 Why I interviewed him Because the Indy Pass ma...

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored in part by: * Mountain Gazette  - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch. * Helly Hansen  - Listen to the podcast to learn how to get an 18.77 percent discount at the Boston and Burlington, Vermont stores. Who Sara Montgomery, General Manager of West Mountain and Spencer Montgomery, Co-Owner and Operator of West Mountain, New York...

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored in part by: * Mountain Gazette  - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch. * Helly Hansen  - Listen to the podcast to learn how to get an 18.77 percent discount at the Boston and Burlington, Vermont stores. Who National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) President and CEO Kelly Pawlak Recorded on April 6, 2021 Why I interviewed her Becaus...

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored in part by: * Mountain Gazette  - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch. * Helly Hansen  - Listen to the podcast to learn how to get an 18.77 percent discount at the Boston and Burlington, Vermont stores. Who Rusty Gregory, CEO of Alterra Mountain Company Recorded on March 24, 2021 Why I interviewed him Because Alterra and its Iko...

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored in part by: * Mountain Gazette  - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch. * Helly Hansen  - Listen to the podcast to learn how to get an 18.77 percent discount at the Boston and Burlington, Vermont stores. Who Eric Wilbur , coauthor of Thirty Years In A White Haze with extreme skiing pioneer Dan Egan . Wilbur is also the online edi...

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored in part by: * Mountain Gazette  - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch. * Helly Hansen  - Listen to the podcast to learn how to get an 18.77 percent discount at the Boston and Burlington, Vermont stores. Who Charles Jefferson, Managing Owner of Montage Mountain , Pennsylvania Recorded on February 23, 2021 Why I interviewed him Pe...

Who Greg Fisher, General Manager and Marketing Director of Granite Peak , Wisconsin Recorded on Feb. 22, 2021 Why I interviewed him Because in the ski snob chain of dismissiveness, the West looks down on the East, the East looks down on the Midwest, and the Midwest ignores them all. They’re too busy skiing. The Upper Midwest is home to one of the most well-defined, ingrained, and passionate ski cu...

Who Tim Smith, President and General Manager of Waterville Valley , New Hampshire Recorded on Feb. 22, 2021 Why I interviewed him Because Waterville Valley is one of a half-dozen or so leading ski areas in one of the nation’s great ski states, a bustling and full-throttle anchor in the I-93 corridor threading up from Boston. Like the megaresorts of Colorado’s Summit County, the accessibility of th...

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored in part by  Mountain Gazette . Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch. The podcast is also sponsored in part by  Helly Hansen . Listen to the podcast to learn how to get an 18.77 percent discount at the Boston and Burlington, Vermont stores. Recorded on Feb. 8, 2021 What this is This is the 12th in a series of conversations explori...

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored in part by: * Mountain Gazette  - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch. * Helly Hansen  - Listen to the podcast to learn how to get an 18.77 percent discount at the Boston and Burlington, Vermont stores. Who Brian Heon, General Manager of Sunday River, Maine Recorded on February 2, 2021 Why I interviewed him Because if you’re lis...

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored in part by: * Mountain Gazette  - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch. * Helly Hansen  - Listen to the podcast to learn how to get an 18.77 percent discount at the Boston and Burlington, Vermont stores. Who Chip Seamans, President and General Manager of Windham Mountain , New York Recorded on January 25, 2021 Why I interviewed h...

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored in part by: * Mountain Gazette  - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch. * Helly Hansen  - Listen to the podcast to learn how to get an 18.77 percent discount at the Boston and Burlington, Vermont stores. Who Lindsay DesLauriers, President of Bolton Valley , Vermont Recorded on January 15, 2021 Why I interviewed her Because while...