Brandon

“More than most sports, skiing is handed down through the generations. It doesn’t always stick, but when it does, it often sticks for life.”
― Porter Fox, DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow

“The theory of person-environment fit says that you might be happier and more fulfilled in certain places because of your temperament, values, and goals. That your characteristics might match up best with a landscape or a location. It’s often applied to business structure, and organizational psychology, but could just as well apply to life in the mountains.”
― Heather Hansman, Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns and the Future of Chasing Snow

“In 2018, the average US weekend window lift ticket price was $122.30. That’s thirty times greater than the $4.18 it was in 1965. Over the same half century, US disposable family income grew slightly less than threefold. That means the lift ticket price grew ten times faster than people’s ability to afford them.”
― Heather Hansman, Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns and the Future of Chasing Snow

“Sometimes the good parts and the hard ones are so close together—like the inhale and exhale of the same breath.”
― Heather Hansman, Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns and the Future of Chasing Snow