Oct. and Nov. 1979

[Schmear]

These were the two vintage issues of POWDER left alone and unguarded(!) on the boot bench at Stutevants yesterday. It was tempting to casually stash both beneath my fleece jacket and walk out of the store, but my two-month-old son was eyeing me suspiciously.

A hardgoods dude popped out of a rack of clothes (where did he come from so quickly?) and asked if I needed help with anything. Holding the mag like it was already mine, I asked him to name his price. He mumbled something about these being part of a larger series of old issues floating around the store and that he thought they'd put them all away for their "protection." I asked him again to name his price and he mentioned something about e-bay and then deftly changed the subject to my cute kid, which of course I'm a sucker for 24/7. I "agreed" to leave the mag on the bench. He kept his eye on me for the next 15 minutes of browsing.

The November issue contains the famous Skier's Guide to Whiskey, as well as some quality Bard ramblings about corn skiing in the Sierra. It also profiled an up-and-coming style of skiing called "telemark," and featured a fashion section on stylish stretch pants.

Maybe I'll go back today (without my son ) and see if it's still there.....

[mtbakerskier]

cool dude, if he's willing to part with some isuses i am in need of 10 to complete my entire collection. Id even be willing to pay an absurd amount too

[Game Over]

all but 10!

IMPRESSIVE!

Dood scan em or take photos and post some cool old stuff.

[KevinDineen]

These were the two vintage issues of POWDER left alone and unguarded(!) on the boot bench at Stutevants yesterday. It was tempting to casually stash both beneath my fleece jacket and walk out of the store, but my two-month-old son was eyeing me suspiciously.

A hardgoods dude popped out of a rack of clothes (where did he come from so quickly?) and asked if I needed help with anything. Holding the mag like it was already mine, I asked him to name his price. He mumbled something about these being part of a larger series of old issues floating around the store and that he thought they'd put them all away for their "protection." I asked him again to name his price and he mentioned something about e-bay and then deftly changed the subject to my cute kid, which of course I'm a sucker for 24/7. I "agreed" to leave the mag on the bench. He kept his eye on me for the next 15 minutes of browsing.

The November issue contains the famous Skier's Guide to Whiskey, as well as some quality Bard ramblings about corn skiing in the Sierra. It also profiled an up-and-coming style of skiing called "telemark," and featured a fashion section on stylish stretch pants.

Maybe I'll go back today (without my son ) and see if it's still there.....

November (up on my office wall right) also features a cover blurb that reads Free Skiing: Anything Goes. Which is odd, because Freeze told me in their Oct. issue that Freeskiing was born in 1991 in Alaska.

[splat]

Personally, I think freeskiing was born the minute some Norwegian walked up a hill and rode down on some sticks. I also think ski bumming, the pursuit of skiing for as close to free as possible, is on the demise. Leaving skinning to be the closest thing to freeskiing in the truest sense of the way I interpret the word, or phrase, 'freeskiing'. Hate to take the wind out of anyone's phraseology (I believe Shane coined, or at least pushed, the term back around '98), but freeskiing used to be what instructors did when the got free of their albatross students, wasn't it? I was never a fan of the phrase. But I'm sure someone will come up with a whole new word someday and it will be absorbed and reiterated into acceptance in skiing's vernacular.

Hey, there's a word - vertnacular - a commonly accepted pitch degree when referring to a slope as 'steep'.

edit: funny, I wrote the above, then found this: http://powdermag.com/dt092404/

Slap 'em all upside the head, KD.