Who Gets To Ski?

Culture Study Podcast

Society & Culture, Arts

4.5 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

I grew up skiing at a mid-size mountain in the middle of Idaho. I wasn’t ever an athletic kid, but skiing — it made me feel fast and really good at something. I loved it: the routine, the long slog to the mountain, the Cup of Soup for lunch, the crappy hotels, the freedom. But the ski culture that I grew up with is largely gone, at least in the U.S. — and I’ve spent the last few years coming to terms with how industrial shifts, climate change, conglomeration, the explosion of the unregulated short-term rental market have changed not only who can learn to ski, but who can keep doing it.Heather Hansman, author of Powder Days, is the perfect co-host to grapple with your questions about the future of skiing, ski towns, and ski culture, including all the business nitty-gritty (and a frank discussion of what can make ski people so annoying). This is a ski conversation, but it’s also a conversation about housing, and class, and city planning — and the commodification of hobbies. I can’t wait to hear your thoughts.Show Notes:Find more about Heather’s work and buy Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns, and the Future of Chasing Snow(Here’s a great review)I mention the movie Ski Patrol — for real ones, here’s my favorite scene (and a pretty great encapsulation of the two stereotypes of ski culture)Heather’s really thoughtful piece on picking where to liveWe’re currently looking for your questions for future episodes about:Celebrity feuds, past and present, with Joel Anderson!!! (Yes this will come out around the time Kendrick headlines the Super Bowl halftime show)HISTORICAL ROMANCE (will neither confirm nor deny that we have a co-host whose confirmation made Melody faint)By popular request, all things fan fiction!Pre-teen influencersBudget Culture + Specifically Budget Advice You Find DubiousDark AcademiaGetting into old movies!!!! Tell us why you want to get into them, why you find it difficult, and a few recent-ish movies so we can hand-pick recommendations for youDad culture, whatever that means to youAnything you need advice or want musings on for the AAA segment — WE REALLY NEED MORE!! You can ask about anything, it’s literally the name of the segment!You can submit them (and ideas for future eps) hereFor today’s discussion: What’s your relationship to skiing? Did this episode shift or cement any of your thinking about skiing?

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Anne. We're recording three episodes next week and we're still taking questions. We're talking about celebrity feuds. So like celebrities that hate each other, celebrities that secretly hate each other, celebrities that like very obviously hate each other, any of those questions, past and present. We're talking about dad culture, which can mean so many things. It can be a
0:22.8	question about like, why does it feel like dad's like this thing? What is the stereotype of a dad?
0:28.6	This is with my friend Phil, who is teaching a dad studies class this semester. It's going to be
0:33.3	also amazing. And then we're talking about the world of preteen influencers with someone who has
0:39.4	firsthand experience with that sphere. It's not a preteen influencer. That's not my co-host, but it's
0:45.0	going to be great. You know the drill. Head to tiny URL.com slash culture study pod and let us know
0:51.3	what questions you have. Thanks. And here's today's show. So you sent me an
0:57.1	image that I had like kind of seen, but maybe like disposed into the back of my head. It's of the new
1:04.1	like skims North Face ski line. Can you tell me about this photo and what you think it symbolizes about skiing today?
1:13.5	Oh my gosh. Yeah. So this is one of my current obsessions, Skims, Kim Kardashian's brand and the North Face,
1:20.7	which is sort of a classic, you know, like outdoor brand released a collaboration.
1:32.2	And it's, it looks like, I guess it looks exactly like you think it would look.
1:33.5	It looks like skims when skiing.
1:42.2	So sort of all of these like flesh toned, really form fitting, you know, like stretch pants.
1:49.9	And the art for the launch is all this sort of like very organized, you know, like people skiing in formation.
1:50.9	It's just like such this interesting nexus, I think, of skiing and sort of identity
1:58.1	and what I think skiing like can mean for people.
2:00.8	And also like also like wealth
2:02.5	like in like such this like a clean way okay let's first table set just a little bit how old are you
2:09.4	I am 40 I'm about to be 41 okay I'm 43 so when we were growing up the like rich ski person
2:17.2	what did they wear?
2:19.3	They had the North Face, like, Sherpa, puffy coat.
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