Doug Pfeiffer, the editor of Skiing Magazine, disagreed.

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He has been called "one of North America's top 25 skiers by Skiing Magazine" and is a "two-time extreme skiing world champion"

Skiing Magazine ranked the Alta-Snowbird ski area second in North America overall and first in the United States for the 2003-04 and 2004-05 seasons.

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Eventually he secured a job covering two of his main interests, skiing and travel, when he became senior travel editor at Skiing Magazine.

He was on the front page of Europe's Skiing Magazine.

The first publisher and the first three editors of Skiing Magazine were 10th Mountain veterans.

This is the message of the 55-year-old Thoren, a former elite junior racer and one of Skiing Magazine's top 100 North American instructors.

In 1996, it became the only resort in history to be simultaneously named No. 1 by Snow Country, SKI and Skiing Magazines.