Skiing Has a Nostalgia Problem—Why the Future Deserves More Attention

How do we, as skiers, often meet the future's roiling, dark-seeming tide? By retreating to the comforting past. You'll hear it in lift lines and see it on internet forums. The "golden years" are prized by everyone who's lived long enough to watch the sport change. The prevailing attitude, it seems, is that skiing has become worse and will continue getting worse, so we may as well cling to the trinkets, songs, and mementos that conjure wilder, freer days.In ski resort auctions, outdated Ribl