Writing Westward Podcast

058 - Heather Hansman - Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns, and the Future of Chasing Snow


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A conversation with Heather Hansman about their book Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns, and The Future of Chasing Snow (Hanover Square Press, 2021).

Heather Hansman is the author of Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns, and The Future of Chasing Snow (Hanover Square Press, 2021, paperback, 2023), and Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West. She's a contributing editor at Outside magazine, and an award-winning journalist whose work appears in places like the Atlantic and the New York Times. She lives in Durango, Colorado, where she's working on her next book, Fierce Country, which is about underrepresented women in the outdoors. 

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 Podcast Notes:

  • Host and Producer Brenden W. Rensink is Associate Director of the Redd Center, an Associate Professor of History at BYU, General Editor of the Intermountain Histories project, and author of the 2018 book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands. Links to other publications and projects here: https://linktr.ee/bwrensink
  • Support provided by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University.
  • Podcast Music was written and recorded by local Provo composer by Micah Dahl Anderson.
  • Episodes are recorded via Skype or in person and amateurishly engineered and produced by Professor Rensink.
  • To submit a book to be considered for a podcast episode, email [email protected].
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