UPS AND DOWNS

I’ve been a skier all my life, and I have a stack of season passes to prove it. With its ups and downs, this sport is a near-perfect metaphor for life, and that’s what makes it so much fun to write about.
 
Sometimes it’s smooth sailing through a clean slate of unbroken powder, and you’re free to write your own script. Sometimes it’s tough to know where you’re going, when your tracks get lost among so many others. Sometimes you have to break through the crust to get to the good stuff and sometimes it’s a tough uphill slog, breaking trail through unknown territory.
 
As a skier and ski writer, I focus on the soul of skiing. I am an advocate for the sport, its participants and the mountain environment that is our playground.
 
Visit some of the best powder stashes in the Rocky Mountains by clicking on the links below.

LINKS

The magic of skiing: Bob Berwyn reflects back on an epic powder year
Summit Daily News, June 8, 2008

Powder snow at A-Basin, skiing through June 8 desert dust could doom late season turns
Summit Daily News, April 25, 2008

Or click here for some up and down ski writing at the New West snow blog:

Snowboard injuries soar
Summit Daily News, June 19, 2008

Radar could rescue skiers
Vail Daily, April 13, 2008

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Neck-deep in one of Colorado’s favorite powder playgrounds,
Montezuma Bowl at Arapahoe Basin.