About

Ski Canada brings the passion of alpine skiing to print, the web and now by monthly email subscribers by creating a club-like loyalty among readers. Deep, rich, inspiring photography combined with evocative, award-winning stories continue to generate passionate letters to the editor – more than almost any other Canadian magazine. With so much noise and time distraction online, Ski Canadareaders remain more dedicated than ever. Knowing the most effective mix of entertainment and information is what Ski Canada’s editors pride themselves in – and our readers’ devotion to the magazine is the ultimate reward.

Iain MacMillan, editor

Departments each issue:

• First Tracks: our editor makes first tracks
• Letters: Ski country’s most dedicated readers speak up
• Short Turns: news, gossip and racy photos
• Gear & Gadgets: fashion, the best in gear, from helmets to gloves, eyewear to boot- warmers…and beyond
• Western View: George Koch sets everything right–far right
• Race Line: James Christie lets you talk World Cup like a pro
• Letter from the Alps: Doug Sager’s entertaining look at Euros
• Tech Talk - popular mechanics of skiing
• Seen @ Whistler: Chris Lennon’s look at life from the epicentre of mountain culture
• Gear & Gadgets:  Hot new products for alpine skiers
• Style File : Instruction editors Martin Olson and Chris Lennon fix all that ails you
• Crosshairs: Extend your dream time admiring the best of Ski Canada’s award-winning photographers

Meet some of our writers and contributors.

Coming up for 2011/2012 – Ski Canada’s 40th Anniversary!

Stay tuned for special content in next season’s issues.

Ski Canada publishes more editorial pages than any ski magazine in Canada

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BUYERS GUIDE 2012 annual * Vol. 40 #1

published week of August 22, 2011
on newsstands week of September 5.

Canadian skiers looking for new gear start their shopping here!

• Straight from, ISPO, the world’s largest ski industry show in Munich, technical editor Marty McLennan PHD walks you through the country’s most comprehensive Gear Guide, including detailed listings on more than 1,000 skis and boots. This issue’s a keeper — all season.

Also in the annual Ski Canada Buyer’s Guide:

Features

Also in the Ski Canada 2012 Buyer’s Guide:

• Return to Silver Star: Part I of the Ski Canada Test

Canada’s top instructors, coaches and freeride skiers test the best of 2012 to offer results on 64 All-Mountain skis.  Of special note: the longest-running, most-respected ski test in North America had a record number of manufacturers represented this year. 

• Grindelwald, Switzerland. Ski Canada readers’ first-ever, and definitely not last, roadtrip
• Mustang Powder: cat skiing refined
• 6 of the best women ski photographers
• 40th Celebration: Gear that made a difference

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FALL (Oct./Nov. 2011) * Vol. 40 #2

published week of October 3, 2011
on newsstands week of October 17.

Ski Canada Test 2012 at Silver Star —Compare and contrast. From Big Mountain to On-piste cruisers, Ski Canada offers the best new skis, across the spectrum.

* 40th Anniversary looking back – 40 years of ski area upgrades. We’ve come a long way.

Also in this issue:

• Big White at its best
• Le Massif, Quebec thinks BIG – interview with Daniel Gauthier
• postcard from Marmot Basin, Alberta

Guest photo editor: Blake Jorgenson’s top picks

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Special 40^th Anniversary issue (December 2011) * Vol. 40 #3

 

published week of November 7, 2011
on newsstands week of November 14

* Ski Canada turns 40! The history of skiing, according to us.

Ski Canada Test at Silver Star: From Wiegele World, find your fat boy passion in the powder skis department. Also, Easy Cruising category test reports

Also in this issue:

• A fast ’n’ Furious Roadtrip: Cat skiing Monashee Powder, Red Mountain’s slack country and the Whitewater Cold Smoke Festival
  
• Whistler beyond the trail map
• Panorama and the family
  
• Kicking Horse, despite its rep, there’s plenty for ordinary skiers
• Sun Peaks and the Nancy Greene Ski League
• Mount Washington
• All in the Family: some notable parents and children in Canadian skiing
• Quebec
• Ski tips from Chris Lennon

Guest photo editor: Henry Georgi’s top picks from 40 years of ski photography

Columns: Western View, Gear & Gadgets,

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Winter 2012 (Jan/Feb 2012) * The Best of Skiing in Canada * Vol 40 #4

BEST OF SKIING IN CANADA

Ski Canada’s annual look at where roses (and a few bricks) are deserved across ski country

Who has the best powder? Après ski? New terrain? Airline route? Shopping? You’ll find it here in the pages of the Winter issue of Ski Canada.

• PARK & FLY   Ski Canada’s team of twintip testers played all over the mountain to show off this category’s versatility. Written by Ron Betts
• A BITE WITH DAVE BROWNLIE  Whistler Blackcomb’s CEO goes beyond the ropes with Ski Canada. By Tobias c. van Veen
• ME, JACK AND MR. SQUINCH  A B.C. native, a Kiwi and a Brit fondly recall their days (and nights) spent skiing Quebec. By Tobias c. van Veen
• 4-Day Road  An excellent adventure is easy when you include Monashee Powder, Red Mountain and Whitewater. By Iain MacMillan 
• POSTCARDS FROM GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN   Marty McLennan shares some moments from his visit to the 2011 FIS World Championships in Germany’s premier ski town.
• BAGGING VICTORIA  Louise’s most iconic and daunting peak has been skied by few. By Kevin Hjertaas

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The Photo Issue 2012 (February/March) * Vol 40 #5 

• Battle of the memory cards. The world’s best ski photographers duke it out in the pages of Ski Canada to visually bring the glory of our sport to life.

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Your news and comments are always welcome.

Ski Canada makes editorial access for snowsports content a priority. Here are a few opportunities to bring your message to our 200,000+ readers within the editorial pages of the magazine.

Your Ski Canada editorial contacts:

Iain MacMillan, editor … 1-888-301-3348 .. mac@skicanadamag.com

Marty McLennan, technical editor … marty@skicanadamag.com

 

Meet Some of Our Writers and Photographers

Ski Canada is noted for editorial excellence. Our writers and photographers are among the best in alpine snowsports media. Here’s a sample of just a few:

George Koch has travelled to war zones as well as ski hills in preparing the thousands of articles he’s written over his 20-year career. He holds an MA in journalism, was a recipient of a National Magazine Award and continues to write for numerous publications besides Ski Canada.

Former editor in chief of Fall Line Skiing in the U.K., Leslie Woit has had no home base for years but chooses to travel the world in search of the perfect ski destination for a host of magazines and newspapers including Ski Canada.

Chris Lennon has an extensive competitive background, currently resides in Whistler and writes for various ski and travel publications in North America and New Zealand.

Marty MacLennan is a former advisor to the Nagano Olympic Ski Patrol and author of Lobster’s Family Guide to North American Ski Resorts, Marty calls anywhere with good skiing home. A freelancer by trade and vagabond at heart, he presently resides in Vancouver where he teaches photojournalism at Simon Fraser University.

tobias c. van Veen b. 1978, is currently hiding out in Whistler & observing the ravages of the world while immersing himself in the snow and rock of BC’s Coast mountains. When not writing for Ski Canada he can be found editing Dancecult: Journal for Electronic Dance Music Culture <http://dj.dancecult.net> and Notes from the Neve
<http://notesfromtheneve.com>, a local Sea-to-Sky blog. In the last throes of a doctorate in Philosophy and Communication Studies at McGill University, tobias still manages to get in around 70 days a year. If you see him on the skintrack, ask him for a swig of absynthe martini from the sacred flask.

Steven Threndyle published his first story in Ski Canada in 1987 about flunking the Level II exam. He can write better than he skis. He loves backcountry powder, hates gates, and believes that every skier should turn a non-skier onto the sport. He lives in Kelowna, B.C., with his snowboarding wife, son, and daughter. He is eternally grateful for the fact that his son does not play hockey, so he can go skiing on Saturdays.

Ryan Creary is an editorial & commercial mountain sports photographer based out of Canmore, AB. Originally from the maritimes, he has spent the last 11 years working as a professional photographer and living in the Canadian Rockies. Ryan’s work has appeared on numerous covers and been used by many of the top clients in the industry. Ryan is recognized for his soulful action sport photos and his unique ski culture imagery. His website and blog can be viewed at ryancreary.com.

Lori Knowles is a ski writer with not quite enough experience travelling, skiing and writing. She needs more, much more. www.loriknowles.com

Toronto-based James Christie has covered six Winter Olympics, numerous World Cups and the full range of amateur and pro sport in more than 30 years with The Globe and Mail.

Glenn Cullen has been writing about skiing around the globe for 17 years – not always easy based in Sydney where the average winter temperature is 16 degrees. Still, he’s mananged to cover three Winter Olympics, eat baby sparrows in Japan, earn $7 an hour working at Red Mountain and almost lost a hand using a nutcracker lift in New Zealand. On his days off he’s a fulltime sports journalist with Australian Associated Press where he’s well respected but struggles to win awards because he antagonises too many people.

Free is the operative word in Ryan Stuart‘s life; he’s a free-heel skier, freelance writer – for publications like BC Business, Backcountry and The Globe and Mail – and gear editor for Explore magazine, where he gets to try all kinds of gear…you guessed it, for free.

Doug Sager is a former Cairo correspondent for CBC and CBS News. Doug abandoned the Egyptian desert for the skifields of Switzerland 25 years ago. In addition to being Ski Canada’s longest serving columnist he has been ski correspondent for a number of British publications, including The Times, The European and Vogue.

Ian Merringer is a former editor of Canoeroots, Rapid and Adventure Kayak magazines, a regular Globe and Mail and Explore magazine contributor — as well as a backcountry aficionado.

Arnie Wilson spent 15 years in television – 10 of them on screen – before becoming the London-based Financial Times ski correspondent in 1986. In 2001 he became editor of Ski+board, the Ski Club of Great Britain’s magazine. . In 1994 he skied every day for a year – a feat which took him to 240 resorts in 13 countries around the world, and into the Guinness Book of Records. Wilson is also the author of ski books. He has now skied in 660 resorts in 26 countries. His next mission is to ski in all 40 of America’s “skiing states” – he has four to go.

Originally from Montreal, Eric Berger moved to Whistler in the fall of 1986 after studying photography at the CEGEP Du Vieux Montréal. It was in Whistler that he combined his love of photography with his passion for skiing and snowboarding to create a successful career as an action sports photographer. He was a Senior Contributing Photographer with Transworld Snowboarding Magazine for twelve years and continues to work with numerous action-sports publications and high profile clients worldwide. From the beginning, Eric’s eye has been drawn to raw wilderness as the backdrop of his success. Delivering action poised on the edge of consequence, his images are at once daunting and inspiring. At home in the backcountry and remote locations, his visual merging of high-risk sport, alpine topography and evocative composition have given him a signature look and international respect.