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I like to think of this book as my “labor of joy,” celebrating the in-bounds skiing and riding experience most winter-sports enthusiasts love. I offer it as a gentle counterpoint to the “powder porn” common in promotional ski photography.

My pictures, even on powder days, focus on how weekend warriors, crusty locals and travelers sneak in turns on the hill. They share the beauty of a frigid landscape crossed by the stunning patterns of chairs dangling from steel cables. And they celebrate the fun chairlifts help us find, relatively safely, at a time of year most sensible folks stay inside

In nine chapters, a dozen essays and 150 pictures – of, from, under and around chairlifts – the book depicts and describes how wires with dangling chairs give the “average schmo” access to a winter wonderland. Topics range from visual patterns of chairs, cables, riders and poles to the hotdog riders and family dramas that color the hillside, the scenery, the weather, the party, and even the stoke of a champaign-powder day.

See pictures from the book here.

While the largest share of these pictures come from central Colorado’s Monarch Mountain, you’ll also find scenes from Crested Butte, Ski Cooper, Telluride, Loveland, Breckenridge and even a few resorts Back East.

Essays open the book and its chapters, explaining – sometimes with wink – my experiences and approach to skiing and riding. Acclaimed Colorado poet and educator David J. Rothman, a lifelong skier and author of Living the Life: Tales From America’s Mountains & Ski Towns, provides a foreword to the 96-page, glossy, four-color book, which retails for $32.95. 

I collaborated with graphic designer David Downing of Ovid Nine Creative Lab and Illinois’s Print Ninja to produce a stunning and affordable book, printed with actual ink in China. At 8×10 inches, copies of the book aim at putting some fun on the coffee tables of both skiers and those who seek to understand why folks spend days and dollars riding up hills and sliding back down.

We’ve had good reviews in publications across Colorado, such as Axios Denver, Colorado Central Magazine and OpenSnow. I was particularly proud to be included in Suzanne Sease’s “Art of the Personal Project” on A Photo Editor.

Click here to view a PDF of the cover, contents, intro and sample chapters.

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