Samantha Berman

6 days ago | skimag.com | Samantha Berman

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. After four years of putting on some of the most thrilling big-mountain events ever—even if they were snowboard-focused (we jest)—the first-ever Natural Selection Ski competition debuted this week in Alaska. And it’s now safe to say that it didn’t disappoint.

3 weeks ago | skimag.com | Samantha Berman |Chryss Cada

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. “Bro! What is this Vail?” a driver protests when stopped to pay a $10 entrance fee for the Single Occupancy Vehicle lot at Eldora Mountain, Colorado. The parking lot attendant explains the importance of carpooling and sustainability for what is surely not the first or last time that early-season day.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Samantha Berman

8 hours ago“Something is not right,” a witness told the responding deputies. The Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office in New Mexico has released body camera footage from Feb. 26, the day deputies arrived at the home of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, and found the couple dead. The videos, released on …

1 month ago | skimag.com | Samantha Berman

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. When I was a kid, the drive up to the ski area was one of my favorite parts. Gradually ascending from winter’s landscape of brown grass and gray asphalt into the deep greens of the pine trees and the snowy white peaks never failed to unlock my anticipation and love for skiing. In some ways, it was better than those first turns themselves. In my memories, at least.

1 month ago | skimag.com | Samantha Berman

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. Anyone who’s ever taken a ski lesson at a big resort likely has first-hand experience with the mystifyingly long time it takes to get from the check-in desk to the slopes. So many forms to sign and boxes to check. It can feel redundant, and it eats into your (very expensive) learning time on the slopes. Sound familiar?