America's oldest magazine for skiers, SKI has passionately chronicled almost the entirety of the sport’s modern era, a time of revolutionary changes beyond anything that happened in the previous thousands of years of putting skis on snow. Ropetows, T-bars and chairlifts conveyed people uphill so they could make dozens of runs in a day just for the sheer joy of flying downhill. Whole resorts were built specifically for the sport. Massive condo construction placed beds next to the lifts. Skis and boots—no longer wood and leather—came to be made of fiberglass, epoxy and plastic. Snow from guns covered slopes when natural snow didn’t. Giant new machines groomed it to a smooth surface. Skis became shorter, wider and more shapely.  e sport even diversified into riding on either one board or two.