Before I got into skiing, show jumping was my sport. I learned to ride as a wee kid, feet barely reaching the stirrups, and spent my teens training and traveling to competitions to see if I could score the fastest time over a course of fences on horseback. The horse I spent[...]
When I was twelve years old, I dreamed of having the power to upend every routine in my life. Bedtime? Watch me sail past it. Pajamas all day? Talk to me. Breakfast for dinner? Don’t care what you say. Feels so right. How about skiing on a school day? Well, I didn’t ski as[...]
I keep a running Word doc with all my potential Yodel ideas. It’s a strange file, not readable to anyone but me. It’s fragments and half-finished thoughts – messages that could be a fit for some issue in the future. Or sometimes they’re bookmarks in stories from our lives. A few words[...]
Before there were drones, there were stuntmen with cameras between their knees. Big, expensive, old-fashioned, suitcase-sized cameras. That was Rudi’s job on the 1969 movie Downhill Racer, starring Robert Redford and Gene Hackman. Despite the star power, it wasn’t exactly a box office hit (so you’re forgiven if you’ve never heard of[...]
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