Comments on: Bloggin’ The Euro Adventure

By: Forrest Thorniley

Forrest Thorniley — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:08:10 +0000

Is that Mt Toll on the cover?

Also, where is this mexican place? inquiring minds near littleton want to know.

By: Pam

Pam — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:04:06 +0000

’tis true, I have 12 to go – but doesn’t Capitol count twice? ;-)
I hope the rehab is going well and look forward to skiing with Brittany next season.

Wow, hi Sean, it has been a long time, hope you are well. Still in MT?

And great meeting you Lou, safe travels, hope to make some turns together sometime!

By: Tony Z

Tony Z — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:55:57 +0000

Have fun on the Euro adventure!!

By: Frank Konsella

Frank Konsella — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:32:47 +0000

Well, Chris has joked about wanting to take the longest of anyone to ski the 14ers, so I guess he needs to come up with excuses not to ski those last 2 this year. :) Pam’s taking the high road, not wanting to overtake Brittany Walker (with just 9 to go), while Brittany mends her new ACL this spring. :)

Have fun in Europe, Lou.

By: Dostie

Dostie — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:53:23 +0000

To clarify. You have my work ethic down to a tea, but the staff you refer to, at the time, was me and one lone part-timer named Mike Warnick who, as a result of his short time with Couloir went on to be a graphic artist.

More trivia on that. Four years later, when Couloir DID have a staff we arranged a retreat at Tioga Pass Resort to figure out how to improve the mag (you were there Lou). One of the results of that was we knew it was time for a graphical makeover, particularly our logo.

We spent the entire summer of 1997 creating article templates and researching fonts for a new look. One day I happened to be skiing at Alpine Meadows and ran into former employee Mike Warnick, who was going to school at Chico State. I explained the logo concept I’d thought of earlier that week, and he sent a mock up of his interpretation two days later. We played with that idea, tried others, and after 3 months came back to something very close to his original mock up and the “look” of Couloir that we stuck with ’til the end. The key, by the way, was a custom C, the final incarnation of which was courtesy of Mark Nadel, the inspiration of which I stole from Coca-Cola, and Mike Warnick defined the basic parameters of.