Ski Magazine

Every skier loves a good challenge, and few are as satisfying as pointing your tips downhill and skiing from summit to base in one uninterrupted shot. The ski runs with the biggest vertical drop in the world offer exactly that: The rare chance to ski an entire mountain in a single descent while racking up miles of turns and thousands of vertical feet. The tricky part is deciding what counts.

Just four years ago, I wrote the headline “Four-Buckle Boots Are About to Become a Relic of the Past.” I’m happy to report that, mostly, I was wrong—boots with traditional buckles are still alive and well. But that doesn’t mean nothing changed: when BOA dials landed on ski boots during the 2023-’24 season, they indelibly altered the ski industry, changing the way manufacturers think about, build, market, and sell boots. I’ve been thinking about what to make of the BOA revolution.

Utah just got June snow as wildfires burn nearby. Here's the surprising reason the same storm fueled both. (Photo: Courtesy of Brighton Resort) A rare late-June winter storm dusted Utah’s highest ski resorts with fresh snow over the weekend—even as the same weather system helped fuel one of the state’s worst wildfire outbreaks in recent memory.

2026 Blizzard Anomaly 94 (Orig. $800) Lengths: 162,170,178, 185, 192 cm Dimensions: 132.5-94-114.5 mm Pros and Cons + No speed limit + All the power you could want – Requires a strong skier – Not the most agile If you’re an expert skier still hunting for a one-ski quiver, stop looking: the Blizzard Anomaly 94 is one of the best options out there.

You may not know of Laramie other than the Broadway show. Here's why that's about to change. (Photo: Courtesy of Visit Laramie) “You’re spending your weekend where?” It was a fair question. Aside from one Broadway-obsessed friend, most of the people I told about my upcoming weekend trip had never heard of such a place. Laramie, Wyoming.

This week’s Cottonwood Fire has left Utah’s Eagle Point Resort facing an uncertain future. While it’s still too early to gauge the full extent of the damage, the news coming out of Beaver is heartbreaking. Community-oriented ski areas like Eagle Point are woven into the fabric of their towns, and rebuilding after a disaster like this is never easy. As devastating as wildfires are, Eagle Point isn’t the first ski resort to face one.

Editor’s note: Some new reporting is suggesting the incident occurred on Kapura and not K6. This is an ongoing story, and updates will be made once they are verified. Acclaimed ski mountaineer and IFMGA mountain guide Guillaume “Gee” Pierrel died at age 42 during an attempt to climb and ski K6 in Pakistan. He was climbing with the French Boris Langenstein and Canadian Christina “Lusti” Lustenberger at around 5,000 meters (16,400 feet) on June 24 when an avalanche caught Pierrel.

Like any experienced reader of articles published online, I try to have a long fuse. The internet is chock-full of bait (rage, click, engagement), and I like to fancy myself an agile fish, darting between hooks and dancing my way to freedom. However, upon clicking on a SKI Mag article a few weeks detailing the scariest ski lifts in the world, I felt my temperature begin to rise. Portillo’s Roca Jack at number 10? Hmm… If you say so.

A wildfire originating in southern Utah has destroyed structures at Eagle Point Resort in the town of Beaver. The Cottonwood Fire began Monday evening and, as of Wednesday morning, has consumed over 59,613 acres. The cause is still under investigation, but authorities believe the origin to be human-caused. As of press time, the fire is zero-percent contained. Eagle Point is a beloved family resort comprising 600 lift-served acres across 43 runs in the Tushar Mountain range.

Six-time Olympic champion and U.S. Ski Team legend Bode Miller was hit with two misdemeanor drug charges following his arrest in Idaho in early June. According to court reports shared on Tuesday, June 23, Miller was arrested on June 6 and charged with one count of possession of a controlled substance and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia. The charges are related to an incident in Idaho, though very few details have been shared.