Stuart Winchester Joins The 'Ski Rex Media Podcast'

Plus some holiday gift suggestions, including 'Storm' gift subscriptions and discounts

The Storm makes a guest appearance

A few weeks back, I chopped it up with Tim Meyer, host of the Ski Rex Media Podcast. Tim’s a good dude and a Vermont local with an attachment to Whaleback and small ski areas in general. We discussed our shared love of ski-area variety, why NYC is a great town to be a skier, how legacy ski media over-corrected with their focus on locals and freeskiing, and much more. Give it a listen:

As most of you know, my pod is hyper-focused on four guest categories: individuals who run ski areas or ski-area conglomerates (about 70 percent of episodes); journalists (10 percent); companies that make all the junk we need to keep the lift-served ski experience moving, such as lifts, snowguns, and trailmaps (10 percent of so); and folks who run websites like New England Lost Ski Areas Project or OpenSnow (the final 10 percent). Tim’s pod is far more general interest, with a better focus on the individuals who make skiing go day-to-day: athletes, gear-makers, instructors, and more. Here’s what his season four guest list looks like so far.

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A Storm subscription guarantees 100 articles on the world of lift-served skiing each year. We’re already at 135 for 2022, and there will be a few more hitting your inbox before the year ends. I don’t count little promotional emails like this, either – those 135 articles have been substantive pieces of content. Forty-one of those 135 articles have been podcasts, and I have four more in the can that you’ll be listening to soon. So you’re paying under 50 cents per article – a pretty good deal for dedicated, independent ski journalism in an age of social-media maximalism and chaos.

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When I began skiing, magazines were the beginning and end of national ski coverage. There was no commercial internet, no social media, no resort websites. What I knew about Jackson Hole or Killington or Snowbird I knew from long-form write-ups in Powder and Skiing and Snow Country and Ski.

They’re all gone now. In print form, at least. But you can still subscribe to gorgeous print with a skiing bent: Mountain Gazette. Yes, it costs a bit more than a standard magazine, but it gives you exponentially more – and better quality – content than a standard mag. Think huge photo spreads in 11-inch-by-17-inch format, long-form writing about skiing and the outdoors, and an honesty that’s often absent in our pay-to-play outdoor media world. A subscription gets you two gorgeous issues per year, stories and photos that you will return to instead of scroll past, and the sense that you’re part of something important:

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The Storm is not quite done for 2022. I’ve got a handful of articles and podcasts coming your way yet. Then we’ve got a stacked 2023, on the pod and in the newsletter and on the hill. I’m not fully recovered from my injury, but I am skiing again, and skiing well enough to re-ignite the explorations that power this whole operation. Stand by.