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A Game of Inches
A Few Days on Capitol Hill Capitol Hill is confusing, frustrating, and complicated. The meetings are short. The staffers are young. Some offices are warm and engaged and some are politely going through the motions. You can walk out of one meeting feeling like you moved the needle a fraction of an inch, and out of the next one wondering if anyone was listening. But folks from across the industry showed up for the Capitol Hill Summit, hosted by OIA. In many cases, far more often than this. Two, three, four times a year. Others are in Washington far more than that. The Summit started with a day o
May 8, 2026
The things you can't vibe-code
I sat through a panel at a travel media conference last year where an AI expert spent his presentation explaining that AI wasn't actually 'intelligent' and couldn't even generate a picture of a clock correctly. I left thinking he'd steered around the actual effects of LLM adoption in order to make a room full of people feel a little better. Twelve months later, the distance between "I wish I could build X" and "I built X" has never been narrower. (I've built a handful of things myself this year with AI tools.) A lot of other people are doing the same thing, in the outdoor industry and beyond.
Apr 23, 2026
Skiing is Fun
Three Different Trips One was a city-based week where I never stayed at a resort. One was a proper British package holiday, and one was a week at a place that’s iconic in the freeride world. Innsbruck, La Plagne, Engelberg. Innsbruck, Austria Innsbruck is one of my favorite cities. It's a real city, not just a ski town, with a population of 132,000 and the Nordkette rising directly above the north bank of the river. It also happens to have a bounty of great skiing within a stones throw by public transit. We stayed near the train station and picked a different mountain every day: Axamer Lizum,
Apr 17, 2026