Has Powder Mag been ruined by Social Justice Warriors?

[DBdude]

after daniel deleted threads at powMag and the exodus occurred, I haven't picked one up

[summit]

after daniel deleted threads at powMag and the exodus occurred, I haven't picked one up

Almost 15 years of grudge... why is your join date a year after the exodus?

[DBdude]

lurker

why buy a magazine when there is so much online? second if I am going to pick up something up to read, it's a book or the new yorker or atlantic

you really are a douche

[summit]

lurker

why buy a magazine when there is so much online

you really are a douche

Did I strike a nerve? Snowflakes...

[DBdude]

talk to the hand fuck head

[PNWbrit]

Did Gosey ever sell those pocket rockets?

[DBdude]

i think he did...

[stuckathuntermtn]

Pocket Rockets put the Soul 7 to shame and they had robots. Bring back the greatest skis ever!
Monocoque for life!

[cravenmorhead]

Looking over Powder's current front page, of 20 articles, one looks like it mentions race, and another mentions gender.

OH NOES I HAVE NO ESCAPE FROM THE PEOPLE ATTACKING MEEEEEEEE

[AdironRider]

I think the point is neither of things matter when it comes to skiing powder, so why bring them up in the first place. I guess virtue signaling to their dwindling reader base?

[dufferdan]

Back in the 70’s and 80’s I read Powder magazine voraciously. It had a way younger flavor and a bit of an edge the “corporate” magazines didn’t have. Living in London Ontario and skiing the 100 vertical foot Byron Bog, it was the eyes on real ski terrain I never had.

I still remember reading and re-reading one article by a Jackson Hole ski bum and the drinking, drugs and endless powder he experienced. I think the author has since passed on, but it was included as one article in a “best of Powder “ anniversary issue several years ago.

There was some very good writing and some very good humor in those early issues. National Lampoon and Powder saved my high school life.

[summit]

I think the point is neither of things matter when it comes to skiing powder, so why bring them up in the first place. I guess virtue signaling to their dwindling reader base?

Well, keeping the sport alive means getting more people into it by being inclusive... cost is a far bigger problem I think.

[AdironRider]

Cost and 90% of the population would rather bitch about snow on social media.

[PNWbrit]

getting more people into it

We need to get some people out of it.

[Sirshredalot]

We need to get some people out of it.

The dwindling snowpack and rising costs have this covered

[PNWbrit]

The dwindling snowpack and rising costs have this covered

I did not notice this around here this winter.

[dunfree]

I think the point is neither of things matter when it comes to skiing powder, so why bring them up in the first place. I guess virtue signaling to their dwindling reader base?

what else is left to write about that the desk-jockey tourists who think they are better than tourists would like to read? They all want to ski the same great resorts the supply of which hasn't increased in 30 years, but with only a few people so the resort won't make money. They discovered backcountry skiing 10 years ago and have written about all the "great" tours and haven't added any new ones.

quess what I'm saying is how do you keep on with "Little areas that rock" if you've already written about all the little areas that rock?

[Alpinord]

I knew it was over about 10 or 12 years ago when their equipment issue came out and the pictures of the skis were bigger than the reviews. Their ski reviews used to be the bible compared to the factory rap in Ski and Skiing. That year it sounded like some of the reviews were by people who hadn't even been on the ski. It caused me to write my only letter ever to the mag. Powder was always 1/2 about the photos, but not form over substance.

Skiing powder used to have a long learning curve because of the equipment so it created a brother/sisterhood of those that could pull it off, thereby proving they had paid their dues. Now every tourist on rental fat boards is trashing the untracked. The evolution of Powder Mag is simply a reflection of the times.

I'm tellin' ya, "The Ski World According to Mudfoot. The long......long view." blog would be the perfect solution to fill this void. You will of course need some 'boots on the ground' to help out.

[abraham]

quess what I'm saying is how do you keep on with "Little areas that rock" if you've already written about all the little areas that rock?

You write about people who make those areas cool? Or about the people who visit those areas and have stories. But that takes time and effort so maybe not.

[east or bust]

You write about people who make those areas cool? Or about the people who visit those areas and have stories. But that takes time and effort so maybe not.

QFT

I think the largest difference is the general lack of effort that goes into most of today's journalism. Not so much deliberately, more so ignorance for what comprises a well written article.

[ACH]

Subscribe to Ski Journal and or The Avalanche Review

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[Mudfoot]

I'm tellin' ya, "The Ski World According to Mudfoot. The long......long view." blog would be the perfect solution to fill this void. You will of course need some 'boots on the ground' to help out.

Old guys all think people want to listen to their stories of "back in the day," but the truth is nobody really gives a fuck, but I did just get a good quote from an old ski buddy of mine: Skiing is like sex, everybody thinks they're good at it.

[Alpinord]

Old guys all think people want to listen to their stories of "back in the day," but the truth is nobody really gives a fuck, but I did just get a good quote from an old ski buddy of mine: Skiing is like sex, everybody thinks they're good at it.

See....now that's factual AND entertaining. Now include big pictures of skis and big lines, followed by beer.

[2nd mate]

So many of my best memories of my 20's and early 30's seemed to be in line with the shit I was reading about in Powder. I will never forget that 2004 gear guide that really got me into a fever about spending lots of days on the hill. Too bad my kids found it and destroyed it a couple years ago. I suppose that times were changing and I cant blame a magazine for adapting to survive when so many others were failing. If I recall correctly, I remember reading in Powder their explanation for the way they structured the gear issue. Just like many though I started enjoying Ski Journal.

I banged a Cornell chick who actually shaved, she was a Bio major though.....then I married her.

[TahoeJ]

I think the largest difference is the general lack of effort that goes into most of today's journalism. Not so much deliberately, more so ignorance for what comprises a well written article.

See, now this is criticism I agree with whole-heartedly, although Powder has had some decent pieces lately after a pedestrian streak. But what Backcountry magazine is doing in recent issues is awesome - they're going deep and historical with perspective and comparing to modern skiers. The issue before last had a bunch of stuff about the history of the redline traverse and other early explorers of the Eastern Sierra, as well as some recent lines that had been hit for the first time with big snow years. It was pretty great. Those OG explorers were seriously bad-ass doing what they did with the gear they had. Not to mention storing food caches ahead of time during the summer.