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RealSkiers
Realskiers with Jackson Hogen covers Alpine skiing in America from every angle. Jackson’s unique perspective derives from a multi-disciplinary background that includes product development at Salomon, marketing and athlete management at Head, ski design at Scott, ghost-writing for Warren Miller and...
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A Change in Plans
Seismic changes to the American ski market in recent seasons has made it impossible for Realskiers.com to continue to gather enough test data to gener...
Catching Up
Our current ski season got off to a rocky start due to a serious over-supply of skis. It’s taken until now to transfer most of this backlog from supp...
The Fly in the Ointment
The ski market in America has devolved into a hot mess. One of the manifestations of its dysfunction is a clog in the pipeline from supplier to skier...
At Our Wits End
In the spirit of rank commercialism, I’m offering to you, my Dear Listeners, the opportunity to donate some of your hard-earned revenue to Realskiers....
Bloomberg is Bankrupt
The following bit of tripe was recently re-published by Apple News after first appearing in the pages of Bloomberg’s online publication. It consists o...
Suspended Animation
Skiing isn’t for the faint of heart.
Neither is subjecting oneself to what is coyly referred to as “America’s Health Care System.” Hold...
Stu Winchester Revisited
Welcome to another insightful conversation with Stu Winchester, who not only publishes the most thorough resort coverage in North America in his Storm...
There Will Never Be a Better Time to Buy Boots
As far as I know, October isn’t “National Buy Your Ski Boots Now” Month, but it should be. Carryover stock will never be more abundant, and new models...
Prof. John Seifert Reveals Ski Injury Dynamics
Prof. John Seifert of Montana State University first popped up on my radar when I saw a video of a lecture he gave to the PSIA National Academy in 201...
AI Ski Reviews Revisited
In today’s belated contribution to my podcast library, I’ll hew to my usual custom of reciting today’s Revelation verbatim. As penance for missing my...
Dan Chalfant & Liberty
Liberty Skis, the brainchild of Dan Chalfant and Jim Satloff, was born 20 years ago - over après ski beers - in Beaver Creek, Colorado, from the urge...
The Fog of War
This installment of The Making of a Skier doesn't have much to do with skiing, but it does cover a formative period of my youth which has informed my...
Pam Fletcher
My very special guest today has known the highest high and the lowest low a ski racer can experience, and handled both moments with style and grace. S...
Frontside Models
In today’s Revelation on Realskiers.com, I extol the virtues of the 2025 season’s finest Frontside models, skis with a much more expansive performance...
Bob Gleason
Bob Gleason assisted at the birth of the rear-entry boot when he worked alongside Denny Hanson in the early days of what would become a huge phenomeno...
A Dearth of Data
Realskiers.com has a long history of publishing its ski test data on our members' site - until this year. Simply put, there isn't enough data to justi...
The Reckoning To Come
The ski trade is in a period of radical change, from brand ownership to dealer relationships. In my opening Revelation of the 2025 season, I take a s...
Gary Fleming: An Insider's View of Today's Ski Market Dynamics
In today's edition of Realskiers with Jackson Hogen - the final installment of the 23/24 season - I explore the current crisis facing the ski retail c...
Is Skiing Getting Better or Worse?
There's no going back to the good old days, no matter how much we may miss them. This tidy excursion into the past asks the pertinent question, is sk...
The Incomparable Jonny Moseley
Jonny Moseley’s Olympic gold medal at the Nagano Games in 1998 set the stage for a post-competition career that would be the envy of any athlete. Of...
Snowbird Secrets Isn't About Snowbird
It’s the New Year, often touted as a time for resolutions, for filing an amended flight plan for the trajectory of one’s life. It is in this spirit t...
Dave Bertoni, Product Launch Maestro
My guest today is Dave Bertoni, a curious choice, in that Dave currently has nothing whatsoever to do with the ski business, but today’s podcast isn’t...
Seth Masia, World's Foremost Ski Historian
Today I’m interviewing the world’s foremost ski historian, Seth Masia, who is President of the International Skiing History Association and the Publis...
Robin Barnes, An Instructor for Life
Robin Barnes is a 4-term member of the PSIA National Alpine Team, and the Director of Skier Services at Heavenly Mountain resort, and the former Direc...
Thor Verdonk, The Man Behind the Shadow
My guest today is Thor Verdonk, the Technical Product Director for the Rossignol Group. You’ve probably never heard of him, but you’ve heard of the pr...
JimSchaffner
There’s no way to answer the rhetorical question posed by this podcast’s title, but that Schaffner belongs on the short list of the world’s best bootf...
Guru Dave Powers
Guru Dave Powers is my cherished co-author of Snowbird Secrets, a modern mystic with a way of looking at the world that is both whimsical and profound...
Snowbird Secrets: On Traverses
On Traverses is Chapter 9 of Snowbird Secrets, 22 meditations about what it means to ski this cosmically connected mountain. I'm posting it today to c...
Mike Bisner, The Best Networker in Skiing
You’ve probably never heard of my guest today, but Mike Bisner might be the most well-connected person in our sport. He has covered every base at an e...
Kim Reichhelm Queen of Extreme
Kim and I are going reminisce about our time together at the Snow Country Magazine ski test in the early ‘90’s, but oddly that wasn’t the high point o...
The Boot Buying Decision Tree
A few simple guidelines to guide you through the maze of new ski boots so you'll end up in the best boot for you and your beleaguered feet.
Wayne Wong Needs No Further Introduction
No one embodies the spirit of hot dog skiing as completely as the incomparable Wayne Wong. A living legend, he continues to rock the free(style) worl...
Price Is No Object
Consumers waste a lot of time scouring the Internet for deals on skis, when in fact for a given category, chances are all the top models will be price...
Mike Adams Tells it Like It Is
Mike Adams has been a force to reckon with since he assumed the reins at Elan's U.S. distributorship in the early 1990's, raising their U.S. presence...
The Con is On!
The Internet was already a cesspool of misinformation, then along came AI-driven content creation to turbo-charge the amount of uniformed rubbish avai...
Stuart Winchester & The Storm Skiing Journal
In only 4 scant seasons, Stuart Winchester has metamorphosed from avid citizen skier to one of the most well-informed (and therefore well-respected) s...
Boots Matter Most
Boots are not only the most important part of a skier's ensemble, the ability to fit boots is a specialty ski shop's most important asset. A shop's be...
The Legend, C.B. Vaughan, Jr.
My guest on this week’s edition of Realskiers with Jackson Hogen is a member of a couple of ultra-exclusive fraternities, as he was both a world speed...