Bye Bye Freeze!

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Plus they may have some of the best ski industry news of any site out there.

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True dat. Ironically, those guys are pretty damn smart over there. It's not your usual ski mag, but if you look at mags like Snowboarder and Snowboarding, they're flip-throughs. They cater to younger crowds who want to see what's cool, not read about it. That's OK. Those kids are the future and they buy lots of stuff that keeps the industry growing and progressing. Their parents have a lot of money. Those kids lose their mag, seems like the industry loses $$$.

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Originally Posted by AntiSoCalSkier

I'm supposed to have a sense of self-depreciating irony when I wear a turtleneck? Uh oh.

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Sure, but look at the bright side: You can write that irony off at tax time.

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Originally Posted by KevinDineen

The Open was entirely a Freeze property. Unless one of the event promotions companies picks up the ball, or SKIING takes it over, it's likely done.

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And the MSP movie tour, at least here on the EC, was a Freeze venture.

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Originally Posted by Skier10322

So true... However there is a place in the industry for a site like that.

Plus they may have some of the best ski industry news of any site out there.

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Lemme guess, that's because you write part of it teddy? ;)

dude that sucks

i may be a bigger fan of powder than freeze....but it's definately a sad day in skiing to see them go under. each mag has their place for sure. but maybe this gives room for an axis-type to come back.....or maybe freeskier will not have to be skiing's maxim anymore just to be different.... or. . SBC? more issues per year?? more in the US? please?

The new issue of Telemark Skier is pretty cool....

Loads of articles and the layout is definitely not shitty....edited my earlier post. :rolleyes:

Wow, everyone should look at that newschoolers.com site for about 5 or 10 minutes - just to appreciate this place a little more. Everyone's a self-promoter over there. I saw about 5 plugs for upstart ski companies, and about 3 plugs for unknown movies in my 10 minute visit - all thrown randomly into posts...

As for Freeze - I thought that thing was so cool back in high school in Phoenix, it was something special for a kid who had skiing on the brain. It really kept the flame burning for me through the dry spells in AZ - a magazine where I didn't have to read about apres-ski, or the selection of restaurants at a resort. It let me know that there were people my age out there who lived for the sport. I outgrew it pretty much immediately when I got to college and Utah, but I still remember how much I liked it. It's really a shame to see it go.