Seattle Times 12/14/16

Just thought it was worth a mention: www.seattletimes.com/life/outdoors/snow-...ry-month-since-1993/

The article includes quote from a few TAY inhabitants. One highly-controversial quote from the article: "There is not a record book to track such feats and the Turns All Year website (turns-all-year.com), which still hosts a forum for backcountry skiers, has changed hands and become outdated."

"In his 23 years of monthly skiing, Miller has seen a niche community of skiers coalesce around the monthly ski calendar he thought he’d invented. He has witnessed climate change slowly chomp away at his precious glaciers and watched his once-private backcountry ski destinations grow more crowded."  LOL.  He thought he invented year-round skiing?  And a niche community of skiers coalesced around ... .  Well, IMHO, TAY is the site the community coalesced around.  I never heard of  Miller--not that that means anything.  We've all witnessed the glacieal recessions and crowding.  I started my initial TAY streak in the very early 90's as did Miller as did all those I knew, with the exception of a couple who started years earlier. But, of course, I only know of those who registered on TAY and there may have been many, many more mountain lovers who skied all year or skipped 1 month a dry year etc.

Hi TAYers,

I wrote the article, and I think the section markharf referenced is not reading as I intended.

We've updated the language to make it clearer:

"There is not a record book to track such feats and the Turns All Year website (turns-all-year.com), which still hosts a forum for backcountry skiers, has changed hands and its year-round skier page has become outdated."

I'm fairly new to backcountry skiing and outdoors writing, and I appreciate any comments or feedback you've got. Email me (ebush@seattletimes.com) or give me a call (206.464.2253) if you have thoughts you'd like to share or story ideas you'd like to see in the paper.

Thanks for reading.

-Evan

Hi Evan, thanks for the coverage and for updating the wording in your article. Charles did all the hard work creating this site over a decade ago, and Marcus has been keeping the site running for the last several years. Now that the reins have been handed over to me, I hope to do a major overhaul in the near future, including, updating the Year-Round-Skiers page. If you have any questions, feel free to email me at cmosetick@gmail.com.

cheers,
Chris Mosetick

Danny Miller is a good guy. He's been volunteering with me for years on the Mountaineers History Committee. I don't know much about his skiing streak, but as far as I know it's genuine and he's pretty low-key about it.

I suspect that his responses just came across poorly in print. Before the internet, it would have been hard to know of anybody else who was on a year-round skiing streak. Saying that you invented the idea could be just a flippant sort of comment, not really to be taken seriously. I'm guessing that's the case.

I sure didn't mean any disrespect to the skier. Past experience has taught me that anyone at all can end up sounding like a jackass when they're quoted in the mass media. It's not a good idea to assume any more than the most casual relationship between a newspaper article and consensual reality.

What's more, I don't mean any disrespect toward the article's author. I've also learned that no matter how careful and clear I think I'm being in my written communication, it'll usually turn out vague, ill-considered, and grievously misunderstood. I appreciate the correction offered by Evan above.

I did think the characterization of Turns All Year was kind've curious. That's why I posted the link.

Mark