Article: Laws Of The Deep: The secret to powder skiing? Get out. Work your ass off. Repeat.(Deep Thoughts)

Byline: Steve Casimiro

Not once in thirteen years of compulsory public education and four years of university indoctrination did an instructor, professor, counselor, or postdoc teach me anything that even remotely applied to powder skiing. How to fail miserably in statistics? That I learned. But powder? Zip, zilch, nada. Forget about insight--no one so much as gave me his two cents. Only when I took matters into my own hands and pursued the autodidactic heights of unconventional education did I discover the alternative universe of learning that lies between the first flake of autumn and the last melted crystal of spring. That's when my real education began--like ...

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