Hard Pack #6 - Winter 2025

Issue Six of HARD PACKfollows the off-season and the melt of the last season. Jack Bool captures the rise of Manon Loschi at La Clusaz in early summer, while Cornelius Kaess documents the final days of Japan’s snow season. Josh Hickey sits down with Vivian Bruchez to talk about the literary life of Chamonix. Fashion features include new work by Estevez + Belloso and Félix Dol Maillot. Essays explore mountain religion, Annie Ernaux, and Leni Riefenstahl. Plus new fiction, poetry, and work about and by skiers Addison Rafford, Nico Porteous, Quinn Wolferman, and WeiTien Ho.

HARD PACK is a new type of ski magazine that combines edgy reportage with cerebral writing to create a new lexicon for the sport that is weird, philosophical, and dangerously fun.