Troll: What would Maggots like to see?

[Arnold Babar]

I'm with Tyrone, go literary. Call up Schmear, do some kind of content for publicity trade-off deal. Promote his site, send out a call for contributions. Include fiction, memoir, poetry, illustration, artsy photography. High-brow it up one time, maybe hard-bind it.

Or...go hardcore: Naked chicks in nothing but ski boots, locked into bindings w/ the DIN settings cranked so high they can't get out, bondage style. They get double and triple teamed by guys wearing ski helmets and mirrrored goggles. Ski poles with dildos on the ends, kevlar glove fisting, hot tuning wax and p-tex, whipping with climbing skins, search and rescue dogs. You know, something for everyone.

[DaveTV]

The "Southern Hemisphere" issue - released in May.. (Answering such questions as: Does MildBill's vomit REALLY go down the 'loo counterclockwise south of the equator?)
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[Schmear]

Originally posted by Buster Highmen
And more dumbness. Powder was the Dauphin of Dumb, the Sheik of Stoopid, the King of Kook. I'd like to see more stupid equipment reviews, lame resort surveys and bent humor.

My thoughts exactly. Powder is still funny, but it used to be blow milk out of your nose funny. More humor!

[splat]

"The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please; it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

[truth]

The resort guide was a great thing, too bad it was not built to withstand the abuse it suffers as it's re-read for years on the shitter and shoved into bags that travel the globe in search of the ultimate turn. Bring it back and build it to last.

The PTTP / road trip issue is also stellar, if I recall the resrot guide was sprinkled with road trips.

The local legends could also fill pages in this Uber issue.

Don't hesitate to tap the maggot/minion populace for the beta of all beta...we all long to grace the pages of ski smut nirvana, here's your chance to really whore us out.

While your at it how about some props for those trapped in flatland urban hells that still manage to keep the dream alive by mooching off maggots and minions worldwide to chase the pillows of love.

[verbier61]

detailed readers' poll on US and EU resorts including all sort of stuff that maggots like...... you know what

[shirk]

Do a twist on the road trip ideas.

I know Bike Mag did a dirtbag issues years back and dispatched three or four writers with $300 each and told em to have fun. They were not supposed to use any other cash other than what was given. This turned out a few very funny and inventive stories.

From this issue I copied the idea of placing one $10 bet on roullette while on my last ski road trip. I called my girlfriend back home to decide what bet to place. Won a few rounds and walked away with $60, enough to cover my travel from Reno to SLC and a day at Alta.

[Big E]

Definitely a coffee-table-quality photo annual. Surfer did this last year, it was actually not a regular issue but a special one on nice thick stock with no columns, no articles, no nuthin, just pics. Went for like $8 too. I bought it and I don't even surf.

Unlike most in here, I'm actually not a huge fan of the oversize photo annuals. Maybe if they were on higher quality stock, but on regular paper you end up seeing too much grain for my tastes.

[baseWeldr]

epic days recounted and mapped out on a trailmap or photo
smokespot/shrine of the month
repair tips on the cheap
avy search tips/topics- think of something new every month but just keep thinking about it
dirtbag gourmet- good food cheap
themed photoessays- pix from lifts, lines with mando air, alpenglow on freshies, cool windrifts etc... in addition to not instead of the gallery

[A-wreck]

Originally posted by Arnold Babar


Or...go hardcore: Naked chicks in nothing but ski boots, locked into bindings w/ the DIN settings cranked so high they can't get out, bondage style. They get double and triple teamed by guys wearing ski helmets and mirrrored goggles. Ski poles with dildos on the ends, kevlar glove fisting, hot tuning wax and p-tex, whipping with climbing skins, search and rescue dogs. You know, something for everyone.

[Barnballs]

a section on ski-town bars.

Not the 'McCormick and Schmidts' type either (skiing mag takes care of those)...just good sawdust/sweaty/old skis hanging from the ceiling type.....maybe throw in some ideas on excellent food joints that won't cost you 'legend-pro' prices...


ok, maybe not....

[Cornholio]

Originally posted by Woodsy
all female issue

not just cheesecake ala Freeskier but an issue of all girls skiing, shooting writing.

send Lynx to interior BC with Meg, jane, & sandy

I wonder if I can't hear ad dollars rushing away, but I love this idea. Female guest editor, writers, photogs, and skiers.

On the other hand, maybe this could be a great sell to fem-oriented product lines, equipment, or brands.

Combine this with the road trip idea, maybe: Three skiers, a writer, and a photog in a van for a month. They go whither they will-- skiing, shooting, filing online journal entries and submitting b-roll shots online-- all capped off by the "POWDER all girls issue, sponsored by Title Nine Sports and K2."

[schuss]

Originally posted by Cornholio
I wonder if I can't hear ad dollars rushing away, but I love this idea. Female guest editor, writers, photogs, and skiers.

On the other hand, maybe this could be a great sell to fem-oriented product lines, equipment, or brands.

Combine this with the road trip idea, maybe: Three skiers, a writer, and a photog in a van for a month. They go whither they will-- skiing, shooting, filing online journal entries and submitting b-roll shots online-- all capped off by the "POWDER all girls issue, because our significant others will witthold sex and kill us if we don't."

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[EPSkis]

Originally posted by truth
While your at it how about some props for those trapped in flatland urban hells that still manage to keep the dream alive by mooching off maggots and minions worldwide to chase the pillows of love.

I like this idea. A lot.

Anywhere / everywhere you look, there's articles higlighting the sport's greatest, in some of the most epic conditions known to man. Sure, they're a great read - it's what we're all after.

Reality check: There are a fortunate handful living in premiere locations that actually get to experience anything similar. For the vast majority, (we) are only lucky enough to spend a few days in that Nirvana if we happen to schedule our vacations properly. And we pay dearly for the *chance* that Ullr will be kind enough to dump on us while we're there.

What skier in his/her right mind would move to MD from Boston? (Ask Ice, I admit nothing.) So you go from a place where there's some of the Country's most challenging terrain 2 hours from your doorstep to a place where the season is 60-90 days long from start to finish, and getting to a place with more than 800' of vertical is a 4-5hr. drive. It's hell. We actually DO live in hell. While the West & Notheast are getting into the prime of their seasons, our resorts are planning their Spring Fling Pondskimming events.

The passion is just as alive here as it is anywhere else. It becomes about making good with what you've got at hand. For some, it's not much. Avg. snowfall here? 20.6" From what I've seen over the last 14 years here, you get as much in as you can with that 20.6". You don't bitch about it, you don't complain about ice (hey - ice is a skiable surface!) , there IS no "powder" unless we just got a whopping 6"- 8" dump, but our "powder" is more like skiing in Cool-Whip.

There are no Bogners, but lots of Carhartt. There's no faux fox collars, but plenty of denim. Liftline courtesy? Yeah - spit your Levi Garrett plug on the OTHER side of the railing. I miss skiing the Northeast. I miss Tahoe even more. But skiing here, for what it's worth - is real, gritty and has more soul than any $75 Stowe lift ticket can provide.

[teledave]

I like that idea as well, but I don't think you can make a whole issue out of hardcores who live where the skiing is crap. I would like to see an issue that profiled the regular hardcore skiers covering the whole of the country (continent?). Both the ones that feast on 150+ day seasons and those that survive on 30 days of manmade and days of vacation (and hopefully freshies).

My $.02, worth exactly what you paid for it.

[EPSkis]

Originally posted by teledave
I like that idea as well, but I don't think you can make a whole issue out of hardcores who live where the skiing is crap. I would like to see an issue that profiled the regular hardcore skiers covering the whole of the country (continent?). Both the ones that feast on 150+ day seasons and those that survive on 30 days of manmade and days of vacation (and hopefully freshies).

My $.02, worth exactly what you paid for it.

Actually, TD - You were one of the SPECIFIC guys I had in mind when I was writing that. An ENTIRE issue? Perhaps not - but worthy (I think) of HALF an issue - to me, those stories from the KIR files always amuse me & remind me of at least PART of the reason I've been addicted to this sport for 32 years.

A contrast/comparison issue? How about sending a couple of the Tahoe crew to ski on our hills, while WE spend some time skiing THEIR backyards...

KD, I believe you've got your first 2 volunteers.

[Stikki]

I didn't read every post in this thread so excuse me if this was already suggested.

How about a summer issue called Season. Basically you'd have on location and/or local writer(s)and photog(s) that documented the entire season of an area. Highlight the epic days, the bad days, the progression of the season, etc. Within that you could do side stories on locals and behind the scenes stuff. Go really in depth. It would be a sort of diary. It'd be cool to follow the progression of snowfall and lines and personal accomplishment. Take local rippers and follow them with line selection and progression through photos over the season. Stuff like a before and after, how a technical chute becomes a powdery straight line by mid-season and the wackos that ride it would be interesting.

[Karl Stall]

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[Sierra Cement]

Who needs Powder when you've got the internet?

Just fill up the special with great photogs....the rest of our needs are satisfied much faster right here.

[joshbu]

Originally posted by Sierra Cement
Who needs Powder when you've got the internet?

Just fill up the special with great photogs....the rest of our needs are satisfied much faster right here.

Interesting aside: Will we ever see all of the powder mag back issues go digital? It would certainly make queries like, I dunno, "Has anyone ever skiied Cordova Peak" a little easier to research...

[Buster Highmen]

On the dreamtime commute this morning, another dumb idea occurred: Quivers.

It could be quivers of the stars, stars of quivers, historic quivers, avant garde quivers, tele quivers, betty quivers or quivers of magnificence.

Wouldn't fill a whole issue, but might satisfy some definition of SIP.