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Update on All my Snow Related Dreams

It’s been a while since I’ve posted about my dream of traveling the world through ski instructing—just about three years, in fact. At...

An American in Perisher

“G’day mate, how ya goin?” one of my coworkers called to me from the other end of the locker room as I struggled to hang up my sodden...

Nose pressing and Maori songs

DUDE my induction into the Turoa ski school today was so cool!!! Because Mt. Ruapehu is super important to the local Maori iwi (tribe),...

Story Time: The Kid Who Thought Skiing Would Kill Him

I squinted through my goggles at the orange helmet bobbing over the snow with that ungainly gait that comes from wearing ski boots. I...

Caroline Araiza