About

Ski Canada brings the passion of alpine skiing to print, the web, social media and monthly enews subscribers by creating a club-like loyalty among readers. 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 Canada readers 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: The editor skis madly off in all directions
  • Letters: Ski Canada readers write (and write, and write…)
  • 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 stirs the pot
  • Comp From WC alpine to freestyle to freeski, Tobias c. van Veen is there
  • Letter from the Alps: A different view from across the pond. By Doug Sager
  • Tech Talk - – technical editor Marty McLennan on the popular mechanics of skiing
  • Seen @ Whistler: From the epicentre of mountain culture
  • Gear & Gadgets:  Hot new products for alpine skiers
  • NEW! Back in the Backcountry – AT gear, tips and travel
  • Style File : Instruction editor Chris Lennon fixes all that ails you
  • NEW! For Sale – Ski Canada’s real estate column has started bidding wars
  • 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 2012/2013

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

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BUYERS GUIDE 2013 annual * Vol. 41 #1

published week of August 20, 2012
on newsstands week of September 3.

Next year’s gear is here! Ski Canada’s comprehensive guide to what’s in store is the biggest in the country with more page devoted to ski equipment than all other magazines — combined! Technical editor Marty McLennan PhD walks readers across Canadaand beyond through the overflowing cup of 2013 product. Used as a reference tool as much as one of entertainment, the Buyer’s Guide remains a keeper issue.  

Also in the Ski Canada 2013 Buyer’s Guide:

  • From FERNIE, B.C., Part I of the Ski Canada Test.

Canada’s top instructors, coaches, freeride and park skiers test the best of 2013 and offer readers from across Canada and around the world results on more than 60 models of skis from 14 manufacturers ?? Eight 2013 categories were tested and three reported this issue: Expert and Adventure All-Mountain   New this year: Slalom!

      •  Zermatt,Switzerland. Ski Canada’s second-annual readers’ trip had something for everyone
          • Raising Jumbo: from dream to reality,Canada’s newest resort is on
            • Jasper’s Marmot Basin is no longer flying under the radar

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FALL (Oct./Nov. 2012) * Vol. 41 #2

published week of October 1, 2012
on newsstands week of October 15.

Ski Canada Test 2013 at FERNIE — Compare and contrast. From Big Mountain to On-piste cruisers, Ski Canada offers the best new skis, across the spectrum.

Also in this issue:

•The Press Trip: Quebec City el al show off to a group of misbehaving British journos

•Lake Louise’s new management isn’t responsible for her all-time record snowfall, but it makes a good story

•Big White teaches you how to teach your little ones

•Ontario’s race riots: the numbers of skiers competing in gates every weekend has never been stronger

•From mining to hippies to corporate jets, Aspen’s history can be over the top

•Get smart: this is the year to take an avalanche course

•Fashion: 10 hot styles and colours on slopes this season

•Ski Afghanistan—bring it on!


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TRAVEL (December 2012) * Vol. 41 #3

published week of November 12, 2012

on newsstands week of November 26

•Two powder destinations, two very different holidays

-Selkirk Wilderness Skiing

-Selkirk Mountain Experience

•Alberta Road trip: Castle, Nakiska and Fortress’s new KPow

•Leslie in Lebanon

•A Verbier weekend

•How to survive a tree well

•Whitewater’s fastest

•Meet Canadian John Eaves, ski-stuntman double for 007 Roger Moore to Leslie Neilson

Also in this issue:

Ski Canada Test at Fernie: Easy Cruising and from the park: it’s Twins!


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WINTER 2013 (Jan/Feb 2013) * The Best of Skiing in Canada * Vol 41 #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.

•From Ski Canada’s Europe bureau: True confessions “I survived life as a chalet girl”

•What’s not funny about skiing Japan?

•Ski Canada Test: Mike Wiegele Heli-Skiing guides test the best Powder skis

•Shames and Smithers (Hudson’s BayMountain)

•Are Quebeckers the best skiers in the country?


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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.

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.