DEEP Quotes

“To those who have struggled with them, the mountains reveal beauties that they will not disclose to those who make no effort. That is the reward the mountains give to effort. And it is because they have so much to give and give it so lavishly to those who will wrestle with them that men love the mountains and go back to them again and again. The mountains reserve their choice gifts for those who stand upon their summits.—Sir Francis Younghusband”
― Porter Fox, DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow

“More than most sports, skiing is handed down through the generations. It doesn’t always stick, but when it does, it often sticks for life.”
― Porter Fox, DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow

“Nothing is impossible. You are only limited by fear and even that you can overcome. —Seth Morrison”
― Porter Fox, DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow

“The true skier does not follow where others lead. He is not confined to a piste. He is an artist who creates a pattern of lovely lines from virgin and uncorrupted snow. What marble is to the sculptor, so are the latent harmonies of ridge and hollow, powder, and sun-softened crust to the true skier.”
― Porter Fox, DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow

“This is the native home of hope,” Wallace Stegner wrote of the American West.”
― Porter Fox, DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow

“The skiing cosmos is difficult to explain to anyone not immersed in it. The act of skiing differs from traditional sports in that unlike basketball, biking or football, it requires specific orographic and meteorological phenomena. Because skiers depend on planetary forces much larger than themselves—and, like surfers, must work in harmony with them—a kind of otherworldly euphoria overtakes them when they do it well.”
― Porter Fox, DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow