What’s the difference between Ski Magazine and Skiing Magazine?
I love to ski, and I subscribed to ski magazine last year. Now that it’s time to re-subscribe, I’m curious about Skiing magazine. What is the difference in content between the two magazines? Do they have a slightly different focus?
Both magazines currently cater to roughly the same target demographic. I get a free subscription to Skiing but haven’t bought Ski in years.
Both magazines change their format to meet current trends quite often. Skiing’s current focus leans towards Big Mountain and Freestyle skiing, but quite often has some well written long articles about a certain resort or a skiing personality. They also tend to lean toward short, quick one-page pieces in the "Inside Line" and "Get Schooled" sections. This is good because if you are an anal-retentive mofo like me, you can tear out one of these pages and put it into a sheet protector and file it in a 3-ring binder for future reference. Skiing also has (usually) the final section devoted to the East. (The "East Scene") So us idiots in New England and the Mid-Atlantic can read something and say…"Wow. I can actually afford to go THERE and not have to buy a plane ticket and call off work for a week."
Backcountry magazine is another option of you are a telemarker/alpine touring skier.
N’East focuses on lots of sports, but does some seriously great articles and photo spreads on snowsports in the Northeast.
(Just throwing out some other mags…I don’t want to sound like a Skiing magazine flunkie.)
September 27th, 2009 at 12:15 am
They have 2 different publishers but cover pretty much the same items but on different schedules.
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September 27th, 2009 at 12:41 am
They both cater the the rich snobs that give skiing a bad name. Check out Powder mag. It actually talks about skiing and not the stupid bull that I don’t care about. Give it a read.
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September 27th, 2009 at 1:17 am
Both magazines currently cater to roughly the same target demographic. I get a free subscription to Skiing but haven’t bought Ski in years.
Both magazines change their format to meet current trends quite often. Skiing’s current focus leans towards Big Mountain and Freestyle skiing, but quite often has some well written long articles about a certain resort or a skiing personality. They also tend to lean toward short, quick one-page pieces in the "Inside Line" and "Get Schooled" sections. This is good because if you are an anal-retentive mofo like me, you can tear out one of these pages and put it into a sheet protector and file it in a 3-ring binder for future reference. Skiing also has (usually) the final section devoted to the East. (The "East Scene") So us idiots in New England and the Mid-Atlantic can read something and say…"Wow. I can actually afford to go THERE and not have to buy a plane ticket and call off work for a week."
Backcountry magazine is another option of you are a telemarker/alpine touring skier.
N’East focuses on lots of sports, but does some seriously great articles and photo spreads on snowsports in the Northeast.
(Just throwing out some other mags…I don’t want to sound like a Skiing magazine flunkie.)
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September 27th, 2009 at 1:32 am
I get both, and they are pretty much the same!
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September 27th, 2009 at 1:50 am
Hey, to tell you the truth there both horrible they give the wrong image of skiing. Skiing is supposed to be fun and relaxing. Not to see who can afford the most expensive hotel. I would check out Power magazine and Free-skier. For movies I highly suggest Under the influence by Teton gravity. And Idea by poorboyz productions.
have fun keep rippin =)
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