In 2002, POWDER published a tongue-in-cheek guide to earning a ski sponsorship or, as the 12-item list put it, becoming “spancered.” Helpful tips included selling the gear your sponsors give you to ...

We won’t beat around the chairlift tower—the level skiing is flat out ridiculous these days. Somewhere in the world right now, there’s a 13-year-old who can ski better than pros could fifteen years ...