Jake - a recent NCS alum - who is living the life, climbing and skiing full time, in between guiding gigs, has turned us on to righteous skis ... the 333 ski by Michael Lish ... ecologically sound, inexpensively priced, cured in the open-air on the East Side of the Sierras, and evocative of Yvon Chouinard selling pitons from the back of his truck. Click on this text to access his website, and enjoy this photograph of his home and factory parked at Mammoth.