Ryan Collins Director. Photo: Laura Szanto
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OUTING NORM

Reading Time: 3 minutes Ski Canada has a secret, a very dark secret, and it’s time to let you in on it. Perhaps you should sit down. We’re now owned…by…a…snowboarder!

It’s true. The latter half of our 52-year existence has involved teasing and taunting our backside brethren but we’re coming clean now.

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On Speed

Reading Time: 3 minutes Aside from better equipment, speed is a fundamental problem we’ve created since good grooming began in the ’80s It was too icy for Martin Olson, Ski Canada’s technical editor emeritus, […]

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50 Years of Fun

Reading Time: 3 minutes    It’s a bit of a crevasse fall whenever I open an old copy of Ski Canada, or Ski Canada Journal as it all started in 1971. I can pore […]

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In Guide We Trust

Reading Time: 3 minutes The best part of autumn is researching, planning and dreaming where the family might go skiing in the winter. Coming from a part of the country where winter didn’t much […]

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The Cost of Skiing

Reading Time: 3 minutes I can’t remember prices from last season let alone decades ago,” Mike Howard admits when I ask if he thought skiing really is more expensive nowadays. Mike has owned iconic Sepp’s […]

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Loving RED – Red Mt. BC

Reading Time: 3 minutes My first-ever visit to Rossland, B.C., and its mythical powder mecca RED Mountain was a quarter-century ago when buddy Steve and I were invited to stay with one of RED’s […]

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Bordering on the Ridiculous

Reading Time: 4 minutes And then his hand started reaching for his gun,” Phil told me on an entertaining phone call from Boston last month. “I had no idea how things were going to […]

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10 More Things to Worry About

Reading Time: 3 minutes Hunkered down at the cottage during the summer I was bitten by a bat. In the neck. While I slept. Dodging all the vampire jokes on one of my seven […]

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How My Ski Season Ended

Reading Time: 5 minutes by Iain MacMillan in Buyer’s Guide 2021 Even though I couldn’t see the contents of my ski bag displayed on the airport X-ray machine monitor, I knew immediately why the […]

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The Other Side of Iran

Reading Time: 5 minutes The Other Side of Iran Last Valentine’s Day I got a text from our summer-cottage neighbours who live in Virginia. “Happy VD, Canada! What are you up to?” “We just […]

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25 Years Later

Reading Time: 4 minutes Jules Older, a former editor to a one-time competing publication, called a while ago to let me know that after some research, he decided I’m the longest-sitting ski magazine editor…in […]

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Jane the Virgin

Reading Time: 3 minutes My friend Jane summed up the trip well: “Going back to skiing groomers with people whizzing past me at resorts will feel kind of dull,” she told me dreamily. “I […]

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