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Reno? Ski company? Vampires?

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Ski construction involves careful attention to detail. And sawdust. Lots and lots of sawdust. This will be the last time I pimp out Cathedral Skis on Facebook.   There are a hundred different ways to start this post. It's like a Choose Your Own Adventure book in my head. As always, I like to boil it down to the bottom line: I'm partnering with some friends who live 3,000 miles away to start a ski company. This is Zach doing pretty much the first thing we did, cutting out a template for our first line of skis. You haven't heard much about it because I haven't been sure what to say. The whole venture is so out of left field and so perfectly imperfect that I've scarcely been able to believe it. The following phrase is true and simultaneously sounds kind of batshit crazy: I'm starting a ski manufacturing company. Like anything, it's a wonderful confluence of factors. Since sort of quitting journalism two years ago, I've been wondering what's next. I hav