What the mountains do when the snow is gone.
The warm-season column. Pickleball first - the fastest-growing amenity in resort and wellness travel, and the game quietly building a second season for ski towns - then wherever else the off months lead. Played, not reviewed.
The Great Equalizer
Thirty years of competitive sport, a boxing gym in Detroit, and none of it helped: notes on getting humbled by seventy-year-old women, why a small court is filling mountain towns in June, and four months of Wednesday nights.
Read the essay →The ball flies differently at eight thousand feet
Why the game speeds up as you climb, what it does to the third shot drop, and how players who learned at sea level have to relearn the whole thing on a mountain court.
Coming soonHow a resort builds a summer out of nothing
The properties tearing up parking decks and tennis courts to put in paddle - what it costs, what it fills, and why the numbers work on a Tuesday in June when nothing else does.
Coming soonCourts beside the cold plunge
Racket sport and longevity have a long, well-documented relationship. What happens when a spa programme is built around a game that eighty-year-olds win.
Coming soon