In the last few seasons, weve seen good ski media continue to die off.
Great mags shut their doors, crappy sites baited our clicks, and skiing continued its eternal commodification.
Skiing sucks in a lot of ways, and Newschoolers reflects that.
Skiing is sexist, racist, ableist, the list goes on.
And Newschoolers is a community of skiers, many of whom check those boxes.
The internet is a shitty place, full of shitty people, saying shitty things.
I dont think were alone in that.
Just peruse the comment section on social media anytime a mainstream ski outlet says anything remotely political.
Their fanbase is just as toxic as ours.
Plenty of shitty people love skiing.
Newschoolers gives some of them a platform to talk about skiing, and about how hateful they are.
Its hard to moderate the volume of speech that happens on this site.
Its hard to effect cultural change on the internet.
We have a long way to go on both of those fronts.
Endless interviews with the same six pros and generic trip reports have never driven my creativity.
I wrote terrible pieces, and decent ones, even a few that Im really proud of.
But mostly, I just wrote how skiing made me feel.
Thats what I still do, nearly ten years later.
Twice a week, every week, all winter.
you could do that.
Whether its photos, drawings, writing, video, poetry.
Whatever it is, you might express how skiing makes you feel.
yo, do that, share it, make it real.
Maybe Im just selfish.
Im so damn tired of reading the same canned interviews and trip reports.
But c’mon, c’mon, c’mon, give me something new to read!
And NS gives you a platform to share them.
No gatekeepers, no editors, just a few clicks, and then an audience.
