Have a seat on your porcelain throne.

It's time to talk some shit on the Powell Movement.

Welcome to the Powell Movement.

I'm your host Mike Powell, and normally I'd be in Denver this week for the OR trade show,

but I pulled the plug on this event that was once looked at as a must-attend institution

in the outdoor industry. Why I'm staying home has nothing to do with the crazy cost of travel these

days. It's because, like all the institutions I grew up worshipping in snow, OR has lost its way. I went last winter and

last summer, and for me, and almost everyone I spoke with, it was a huge waste of time and money.

Folks will try and blame the pandemic, but I blame the show for not listening to what their

customers want. I really hope they figure something out because trade shows were rad,

community building events, but not

today's OR. It's currently a shell of what it once was. Another thing that is fucked at

this point is print. Yeah, there is a print revival going on and it's awesome, with Mike Rogie

at Mountain Gazette and Pat Bridges at Slush and Todd over at Bombsnow. They're all doing cool things

on a small boutique level,

but it looks like the days of monthly affordable print are now a thing of the past.

While we all remember powder, snowboarder, and Trans World, they each die to slow death.

And I think to myself, what happened to these once proud titles?

And I find myself looking at the combo of Outside Magazine and I believe

a group of venture capitalists looking to make a huge play to almost monopolize outdoor print.

And the outside group, when they weren't trying to block writers from starting a union to protect

their exploitation by their own company, they were busy putting together secret plans to build an outside verse,

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