Independent Skier
noun, [in∙de∙pen∙duh nt skee-er]
plural: in∙de∙pen∙dent ski∙ers.

1. An autonomous being or thing that skis.
2. A small, privately owned business devoted to telling stories about skiing.

We believe skiers are skiers. It makes no difference how old they are, what their education level or income is, if they live in the mountains and ski 100+ days a year, or take one ski trip a year.

Our readers are all over the map. What they care about is high-quality storytelling to fuel their love of their sport and lifestyle anywhere, anytime.

Mission: To provide the highest quality mobile storytelling possible to skiers worldwide, for free. Always fresh, always deep.

We Are:

- A digital lens focused on covering all aspects of skiing: the sport, the lifestyle, and the mountains through words, images, video, and audio.
- An app that features the highest quality storytelling with the best production values and user experience available.
- Available to everyone for free, on iPads and iPhones anywhere in the world via the App Store.
- Four issues released throughout the winter of 2014 and one to follow in summer 2014.

We Are Not:

- A website polluted with top ten lists, pay-to-play content, forced slide show galleries, and irrelevant ads, pandering for every click.
- Another ‘core-brah’ publication.
- Out to win any popularity contests.
- A print magazine limited by page sizes and paper quality.
- Going to take ourselves, or our sport, too seriously.

True to our name, we’re not part of a bigger company or the pet project of a few deep pockets. We’re just a few skiers who love figuring out new ways to tell great stories. In order to make this project happen and with our goal of keeping the first season as ad-free as possible and free of charge, we successfully completed at Kickstarter campaign. We are crowd-funded and community supported. We hope you enjoy.