This is the season finale episode

We talk about what our mountains do during the summer

We once again talk with Ripitz about his adventures in the Hudson valley and Catskills and also take a deep-ish dive into the life of Jackrabbit Johansen, legendary Adirondack and Canadian skier and bushwacker.

https://vault.si.com/vault/1979/12/10/the-old-man-and-the-ski-herman-jackrabbit-smith-johannsen-began-skiing-102-years-ago-and-hes-still-going-strong

https://skihall.com/hall-of-famers/herman-smith-johannsen/

Junior takes center stage to tell us about his trip to Jay and Robert talks about the recent Rail Jam at Snow Ridge, leading to some more nostalgia about the 90s and snowboard culture’s influence on the skiing world and other stuff like that.

We talk with Ripitz about skiing the Catskills the hard way, skiing at Belleayre, his time ski bumming in France and Montana and other stuff too.

We talk with Collin Parsons about ski lifts

We talk with Collin Parsons about a variety of things, attempting to tap into his talent for research and data collation/ interpretation. This is Part 1 of our first 2 part episode

We talk with ThatNYskierabout backcountry skiing in the Adirondacks