Articles by Sklar
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While many of the legends of the modern freeskiing movement remain at the top of their game, a new crop of skiers has emerged and is in the process of trying to cement their own legacies. Names like Colby Stevenson, Dylan Sondrup, and a whole...
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An engineer with a background in fiber optic temperature sensing, and a production manager hired away from making stick-on women’s fingernails may not seem like the most likely crew to be running a small semi-custom ski manufacturer. This duo, however, headed by owner Matt...
The skiers on the U.S. Ski Team have been training year-round for their moguls competitions in the leadup to the Olympics in February, at the end of the day, however, they are still skiers as much as you or me. That’s why top American mogul skier Troy Murphy set aside the bumps and jumps to head...
The rain drives constantly down, a heavy mist really. It falls almost silently onto my black trashbag poncho, a billion tiny beads. This is weather far too wet for any Goretex, this is my home mountain, and I love every second of it. The chairs are slow, the powder wet when it comes at all, and...
Most skiers leaving Vancouver will drive right past Grouse Mountain, unaware of the special place they leave behind. It’s a place that’s easy to overlook, but equally easy to fall in love with. The views alone are enchanting, but it's the totality of its offerings that make Grouse Mountain a...
Most skiers leaving Vancouver will drive right past Grouse Mountain, unaware of the special place they leave behind. It’s a place that’s easy to overlook, but equally easy to fall in love with. The views alone are enchanting, but it's the totality of its offerings that make Grouse Mountain a...
The inclusion of halfpipe and slopestyle skiing in the Winter Olympics ushered park skiing into a new era, bringing with it polarization and heated debate. While skiers still slide on snow and the sport’s fundamentals remain intact, the second cycle of freeskiing’s Olympic inclusion begs for...
So, you want to ski as much as humanly possible while earning your bachelor's degree? Well, you’re in luck, because there are colleges and universities all over the US that are close to great skiing. Balancing grades, dating, skiing, and sanity can be a challenge at times, but with your...
Photo: Aiden Ulrich/Windells
Grabs are optional, hands drag, dab, bow and flap, and a park bench can be the scene of a movie ender. This is the new wave, at least I think so. The collective camera may be returning to the athletes that the non-endemic sponsors and mainstream media will push into...
All Photos: Dan Villaire/Armada
Tanner Hall is undoubtedly one of the greatest skiers of all time. With so many years in the spotlight his skiing ability has almost become secondary to his celebrity, with the public seeing both ups and downs. Over the 2016-17 winter, Hall took a step back from...
Newell Brands has reached a "definitive agreement" to sell its winter sports brands to the private equity group Kohlberg & Company, L.L.C. Included in this group of companies is Volkl, K2, Marker, Dalbello, Madshus, Line, Full Tilt, Atlas, Tubbs, Ride and BCA. This sale appears to be the end of...
All Photos: Matt Sklar
What a week it was. Things could not have gone much better at SuperUnknown, except for maybe some better luck at the casinos in South Lake. We had amazing features built for us all week long, a great crew of filmers to press the red record button, and most of all, a...
All Photos: Matt Sklar
What a week it was. Things could not have gone much better at SuperUnknown, except for maybe some better luck at the casinos in South Lake. We had amazing features built for us all week long, a great crew of filmers to press the red record button, and most of all, a...
Skier: Oliver Karlberg. All photos: Matt Sklar
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Things weren't all sunshine and rainbows at SuperUnknown XIV in Sierra at Tahoe, day one brought cloudy, some rain, and about five inches of thick Sierra cement snow covering the mountain. Eager...
Skier: Vincent Prevost. All photos: Matt Sklar
The fourteenth instalment of Level 1 Productions SuperUnknown contest featured an amazing cast of characters, plenty of California sunshine courtesy of Sierra at Tahoe, and one hard decision. The result of this combination was one unforgettable...
I'm Matt Sklar, a ski photographer and writer based in Seattle, Washington where I work for evo as a copywriter and contribute to Newschoolers.
“It’s important to remember our history because of the way history repeats itself,” Newschoolers GM Doug Bishop told me while reflecting on the...
Cover Photo: Kellen Mohr
I'm Matt Sklar, a ski photographer and writer based in Seattle, Washington where I work for evo as a copywriter and contribute to Newschoolers.
I met David when we were both about 8 years old at summer camp in Minnesota. I don’t know what’s more weird, the fact that...
Incidents like the outburst from Joe Fitzgerald, the FIS official at the World Championships and the restrictive Olympic process have unveiled how out of touch bureaucracy of the competition scene can be. Competitions have become almost unachievable and unrelatable to the masses, isolating them...
I'm Matt Sklar, a ski photographer and writer based in Seattle, Washington where I work for evo as a copywriter and contribute to Newschoolers.
Running a ski contest is hard. That is something that was firmly established last week when tempers flared at the FIS World Championships, and...