We're joined in studio by Tom Ritsch during his stop in Boston with the TGR team to premiere their 2023 film. Tom is an Austrian-born freeskier who unexpectedly got the call to shoot with TGR last March. This was Tom’s first time shooting with TGR and he took full advantage of the opportunity and ended up playing a huge role in a banger heli-skiing segment in the new movie. Support the show by using promo code bostonskiparty for 15% off store-wide at https://theskimonster.com/Follow our socials at: https://www.instagram.com/theskimonster/https://x.com/TheSkiMonster?s=20

We are joined in studio by Jonathan Ellsworth, founder of Blister Review. Blister is one of the most popular and well-respected outlets for gear reviews in the world of winter sports. Since Jonathan is the man behind the vision it only makes sense that most of our conversation was centered in gear review talk.https://theskimonster.com/https://www.instagram.com/theskimonster/https://x.com/TheSkiMonster?s=20

We are joined in studio by Salomon athletes Stan Rey, Alexi Godbout, and Josh Daiek on their stop in Boston for the QST Film Tour. We covered a wide range of topics from how these three became pro skiers, pivotal moments in their careers, to what it was like working on their recent projects last winter. https://theskimonster.com/https://www.instagram.com/theskimonster/https://x.com/TheSkiMonster?s=20

We are joined in studio by our good friend and Tecnica/Blizzard sales rep Adam Sink to draft the best product names we've seen in our many many years in the ski industry.

We are joined in studio by Jonah Williams, who was in Boston to premiere his newly released project "Who is Sim." Jonah’s a pro skier out of Utah who started gaining recognition after winning Level 1’s Superunkown contest back in 2015. Since then, he's become known as one of the dopest and most well-rounded skiers in the game. From major film segments, to edits that broke the internet, to clips that take over the ski social media algorithm, he's been absolutely crushing it in front of the camera and there's proof of that everywhere. We talked to Jonah about his impressive resume, and shooting his newest project this past winter.

Eric, Garrett, Tate, and Joe sit down to draft and discuss the best spots for Après sessions.

We sat down for a phone call with Joe Johnson, the Alpine and Nordic marketing manager at Salomon. Joe starts off by telling us how he got from "Alta University" to the position he's in today. Joe gives his perspective on the past, present, and future state of skis, boots, and bindings at Salomon. The brand is a major player in all 3 hardgoods categories, so Joe has a lot to juggle.

We sat down for a phone call with Andrew Couperthwait, VP of Head Skis to talk about some of the current ongoings at Head/Tyrolia, some exciting stuff each company has on the way, and Coup tells us about some key factors that have contributed to maintaining the brand’s success. He tells us about some innovations happening on both the ski and binding side, and specifically explains the function of the Tyrolia Protector binding in a super digestible way.

We are joined in studio by Hunter Henderson for a dope conversation with the U.S. Freeski Team member, Red Bull athlete, and 2026 Winter Olympic hopeful among many other things. Hunter's originally an east coast guy, so we spent a lot of time talking to Hunter about growing up in NH, coming up as an east coast skier, and specific factors and experiences that set him up for a career as a professional skier. Hunter is only 20 years old and is absolutely crushing it right now. He's definitely someone you're gonna wanna keep your eye on over the next few years.

We are joined in studio by none other than Dan Egan. If you're not familiar with Dan, he's a pioneer of extreme skiing, starred in 13 Warren Miller films, and worked closely with Warren Miller Entertainment spanning from the late 80s to the early 2010s. This was a perfect time to talk to Dan because of a recent announcement that for the first time in 74 years, Warren Miller Entertainment will not be shooting a new film, and instead will be repurposing archival footage for their annual release. We get Dan's opinion on the current state of WME and some of the things that lead to where the company is at today. We also have some awesome back-and-forth about Dan's Boston routes, his epic career, and some of the wild experiences that have come along with it!

We are joined in studio by Ben Fresco, the Product Manager at Elan USA, to discuss the all-new Elan Playmaker series. The Playmaker 91 and Playmaker 101 are a series of freeride twin-tip skis that will be part of the 2023/2024 Elan Skis lineup, and we here at TSM couldn’t be more stoked. Fresco takes us through the production process from start to finish: From the vision to prototyping to the finished product.

We sat down in studio to discuss our top-tested skis for the upcoming 23/24 season. Testing is our life here at TSM. It’s how we get familiar with product, curate our inventory, and ultimately guide the end consumer in figuring out what makes the most sense for them. This past season, our staff notched around 30 total test days at over 25 resorts and got on next year’s product from just about every ski brand you can think of. It only felt appropriate to keep it internal for this conversation. George, Matt, and Joe from the TSM crew joined us for this one. They all took part in ton of testing this year and share different perspectives on what’s coming next season. Even though there isn’t too much changing in terms of new skis and new constructions, there’s still so much to talk about when it comes to ski testing.

We are joined in studio by Jason Roe and Valarie Kechian from Atomic to talk Atomic boots. Jason grew up in Canada and moved to Austria 20 years ago to start at Atomic and is now the Business Director of the Alpine Boots side of the brand. Valarie has been in the industry for about a decade and is now a Commercial Product Specialist at Atomic. We talked a little bit about the history of ski boots, what Atomic has going on at the ski boot development level, and of course, BOA (so hot right now).

We are joined in studio by Christian Avery, the North American Product manager at Blizzard-Tenica to discuss the all-new 23/24 Blizzard Rustler and Sheeva collection. The bulk of our conversation revolves around the new skis; Christian tells us about the development process from start to finish and the decision-making that goes into changing an established product. We also chopped it up about BOA ski boots if that's something you're into.

We are joined in studio by Tanner McCarty, the former team manager at Ride Snowboards. Tanner has been one of the most important behind-the-scenes guys in snowboarding for the better part of a decade, spending the majority of those years at Ride. We talk about how he went from working at Eastern Boarder when he might have been too young to work at Eastern Boarder, to playing a huge role at one of the biggest brands in snowboarding.

We headed up to the Marker/Dalbello/Volkl US headquarters to check out their DOPE new showroom space, get a sneak peek of their 2024 line-up, and record this pod. We sat down with Ivar Dahl, the National Sales Manager at MDV. We hear a bit about the Ivar origin story, some of the exciting stuff they have going on at MDV, and we discuss the current demands of the ski-buying market and what Volkl is doing to keep up with them.For all podcast updates check out @theskimonster on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok.

We sat down with Cyrus Schenck, founder of Renoun, a (mostly) ski brand based out of Burlington, VT. We chopped it up with Cyrus about his window-washing career, how that led to him launching Renoun, and what went into the revolutionary technology that goes into his skis. On top of all that the episode also features some interaction between the crew and an AI bot that might know more about skis than humans.

We are joined by Tom Monterosso a.k.a. T Bird. T Bird spent 13 years at Snowboarder Magazine where he made a name for himself covering some of snowboarding's most iconic stories for the publication. In recent years, T Bird has taken on different types of media-related projects than he had typically done for Snowboarder. He's announced some of the biggest events in snowboarding, and most recently was tasked with writing and directing a documentary called “Rough Around the Edges: 30 years of Ride Snowboards," which will be available on Youtube in the coming months.

We are joined by Jim Ryan, who dropped by the studio during his trip to Boston for the premiere of the new Teton Gravity Research movie, Magic Hour. After Jim blows our minds with a story about a recent ski trip he took in which he found himself bushwhacking through the Chilean jungle with cowboys and horses, we talk to Jim about his massive 2022 season. He spent the year crafting an epic segment for the new TGR movie in which he scoped out, hiked, and ripped on some of Grand Teton National Park's highest peaks.

We are joined in studio by Madison Rose Ostergren who was in Boston with Warren Miller Entertainment premiering their 2022 movie, Daymaker. Madison is a pro skier out of Jackson Hole and has spent the last few seasons emerging onto the scene taking part in a number of badass film projects. Madison gives us some background on how being a ski racer from the midwest turned into landing a two page spread in a ski magazine and ultimately launched her professional ski career to where it’s at today.