Articles by cydwhit
I still believe that a "weird poop" is the ideal excuse to leave work early. It's descriptive without being too specific. It's plausible, but no one will be surprised when you're healthy and back at work the next day. It's pretty ideal. Unfortunately now that I'm self-employed it doesn't work so...
As the leaves turn and the first snowflakes fall, I start to take over our kitchen counter with ski gear projects. It’s messy. I should probably mount my bindings and trim my skins and modify my outerwear in the garage. But it’s cold out there, and the dog whines when she has to sit on the cold...
Nine years ago I was a 21 year old with a camera, a couple lenses, and a newschoolers account. I had spent a season or two skiing with my friends, lining up shots with them, figuring out how to make decent photos. And then, thanks to this website, I started getting opportunities to shoot real...
'Tis the season to take your new skis in to the shop, drop them off for a mount, and come back to find them mounted backwards, mounted crooked, mounted for the wrong binding, dimpled, or something equally as deflating. I've written a couple articles on how to make sure this doesn't happen to you...
The local ski hill doesn’t have snow yet, but yards in town are sprinkled with local political signs. It’s election season again here in the United States. At least here in Teton Valley, the election cycle always lines up with the ski season. We held our primary elections back in May, as the...
It snowed up high a week ago. I only know because I can see the remains, taunting me on the peaks. A light dusting of powdered sugar on the granite, just out of reach. It’s been inverted, so the trees are going yellow in town, but up on the ski hill they’re still lush and green, an incongruous...
Enough of the bullshit NFTs, the paywalls over generic pay-to-play articles and the tired race to the lowest common denominator.
Tell your stories. I'm always down to proofread your articles, brainstorm ideas, or share techniques. My inbox is open. If there's any way I can help you shape...
Boot: Roxa R3 130 TI I.R.
Reviewer height/weight: 6’1”, 195 lbs
Boot weights: 1597/1590 g
Size Skied: 27.5cm BSL: 310 mm
Flex: 130
Locations: Teton Pass, Grand Targhee
Conditions skied: Just about every type of snow you can imagine
Days skied: 100+ on the previous version, 5 on the new...
Ski: Atomic Bent 110
Reviewer height/weight: 6’1”, 190lbs
Ski weights: 1860/1855 g
Length Skied: 188cm (180cm Twig)
Straight tape-pull length: 186.5 (178.5 Twig)
Dimensions: 134-110-125
Radius: 19m (for 188 size)
Mounted: -3 cm from True Center (-2cm Twig)
Bindings: Atomic Shift/ATK...
Articles like this one are dead. Or dying. Long-form ski writing is on life support. Outside is buying up all of the outlets to keep as cute little cash cows. Or something else equally dire. So sayeth the prophets of doom at least. Depending on which corner of the ski media landscape you...
In Depth Review - ON3P Jeffrey 118 Tour - The Roofbox
Ski: ON3P Jeffrey 118 Tour
Reviewer height/weight: 6’1”, 180lbs
Ski weights: 1870/1874 g
Length Skied: 186cm
Straight tape-pull length: 186.69 cm
Dimensions: 146-118-136
Radius: 23.5m (for 186 size)
Mounted: -3.5 cm from True Center...
I became aware of freeski culture at the height of the “Skittle-thug” era. My home hill’s terrain park was full of park rats with doo-rags, tall T’s, and the always cool bandana tied around the knee. Magazines were packed with shots of folks in the Salomon Magic Suit and G Suit. The wardrobes of...
Last week some of you were kind enough to let me know that I missed some spring skier stereotypes. So here ya go!
Wiser writers than I have penned plenty of prose about the soul of mountain towns and how it’s under attack from over-development, under-appreciation and a host of other factors. So I won’t rehash that at length. It’s pretty obvious to all of us that the challenges of living and working in a...
As the season starts to wind down, there are a few classic responses to an imminent closing day. What's your default? And who did I miss?
There’s something special about the last few weeks of the ski season. Closing day is on the horizon but it doesn’t feel inevitable yet. We’re finally fit enough to make the most of a day on the hill without complaining of soreness for the rest of the week. Snowpacks are deep, the backcountry is...
While most of my contributions to this website in the last few years have been in the form of words and doodles, when I joined newschoolers I dreamed of being a ski photographer. I shot for various outlets for a few years, and even landed a couple photos in print, before I decided that drawing...
Last week the red-winged blackbird was in Arizona, wintering with a flock of ten thousand other orange epauletted avians. But some imperceptible change in the weather prompted it to start north, and two days ago it flitted into the bed of reeds just below the bridge over the creek. When it...
This season, in the greater Teton backcountry skiing community there has been a fair bit of discourse about communication. Some of that came to a head in the Sliver Couloir in late January, and that incident has gotten a lot of press. This situation is symptomatic of a greater challenge that...