http://www.powdermag.com The Skier's Magazine Sun, 26 May 2013 07:01:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en shoots Tom Brady commercials, has gigs with Neiman Marcus, FedEx and Best Buy, and calls Manhattan home. He says that skiing got him where he is.]]> http://www.powdermag.com/stories/lens-flair/ http://www.powdermag.com/photo-of-the-day/ryan-creary041913/ http://www.powdermag.com/stories/bars-we-like-the-chamois/ Talisker is claiming that it has no plans to develop anything else along the route of the proposed Canyons-Solitude gondola, with The Canyons Managing Director reasserting that there will be "No residential, no commercial, and no ski infrastructure beyond the lift towers." The contentious project still needs the approval of the federal government, as the planned route cuts through 30 acres of Forest Service land. ]]> http://www.powdermag.com/first-chair/week-in-review-march-31/ we owe McConkey a lot: rockered skis, segments that are still mindblowing, the game of GNAR. But the most important thing he left us with was the idea that skiing is supposed to be fun. No matter how rad you are, or how much better of a skier you are than anyone else on the mountain, you can still be Saucerboy. You can still get goofy and weird and throw spraffys in the mini park on snowlerblades. That will always be important. ]]> http://www.powdermag.com/stories/remembering-shane-mcconkey/ http://www.powdermag.com/photo-of-the-day/scott-markewitz-032313/ http://www.powdermag.com/stories/where-them-girls-at/ http://www.powdermag.com/freeride-world-tour/ http://www.powdermag.com/photo-of-the-day/ian-coble-032013/ http://www.powdermag.com/latest-news/zeal-optics-introduces-e-llume-the-world%e2%80%99s-first-bio-based-lens/