5 Ways To Have Fun In Fernie (When You’re Not Skiing)

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Reading Time: 5 minutes If you haven’t yet skied B.C.’s Fernie Alpine Resort…well, my friend, the time has come. Its terrain is immense: five open bowls, hectares of trees and the most snow in the Canadian Rockies (11 metres annually). Ski off one of the highest summits in the Lizard Range—Polar Peak’s views stretch all the way to Kananaskis—or drop down a powder-filled chute, there’s a bunch to choose from. But there is also plenty to keep you occupied off-piste, too: good food, great hiking, curvy fat-biking trails.

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Border Crossers – Red, Whitewater, Fernie

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Reading Time: 10 minutes Two American brothers learn to appreciate each other—and Canadian skiing—on a Kootenays road trip. A metre down in a tree well, I was relieved to hear muffled sounds of my […]

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Drone On

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Like newbies clogging the fall line, drones are seemingly everywhere these days. From real estate agents to biologists, the remote-control helicopters equipped with a video camera are making light work […]

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An Unusual Year

Reading Time: 9 minutes There’s something wrong. We’re a day into a Powder Highway road trip and so far there’s been no powder—or even a whiff of marijuana. I’m travelling with a handful of […]

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The Business of Skiing

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Reading Time: 6 minutes What goes around, comes around in the ownership and management of ski resorts. Winter 2015 .. My mind is a lot less cluttered now that I don’t have little resorts […]

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Fat Cats – Island Lake Lodge

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Reading Time: 8 minutes Island Lake Lodge’s culinary rep and posh digs are matched only by its skiing.  by Ian Merringer in the December 2014 issue  *  Photos: Henry Georgi Basketball has never interested […]

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It’s Twins!

Reading Time: 7 minutes WRITTEN BY RON BETTS  *  TEST CO-ORDINATOR DYLAN SIGGERS  *  PHOTOS BY HENRY GEORGI  *  from Winter 2014 issue The Fernie Freeride Team proudly announces the arrival of some favourites from […]

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A Skier’s Guide to 10 of B.C.’s Best

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Reading Time: 17 minutes From the Continental Divide of the Rocky Mountains to the oceanside majesty of the Coast Range, British Columbia truly lives up to its Latin motto: Splendour Sine Occasu—Splendour Without Diminishment. And […]

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A Foodie in Fernie

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Ethnic and upscale offerings are feeding powderful appetites in what was once a culinary wasteland. By Lisa Kadane  //  photos by Henry Georgi in Winter 2013 issue It snows a lot in Fernie. This […]

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Screening Room

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Reading Time: 4 minutes by Ryan Stuart in December 2012 issue Slouch on the couch and get ready for the season With a gang of bros ready to feed the stoke, we sat back […]

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Easy Cruising * Test 2013

Reading Time: 15 minutes Think of all the things that make skiing easier now than it has ever been. It’s 2012 and we have it made. The Polar Peak chair, which opened last season […]

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First Lift

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Reading Time: 8 minutes Start your touring with a boost into the backcountry at Island Lake Lodge. by Ryan Stuart in December 2012 issue On the day I realized a childhood dream, Johnny Cash […]

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Adventure All Mountain * Test 2013

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Reading Time: 13 minutes by Ron Betts in Fall 2012 issue Everywhere you look these days—magazines, online, television—there’s someone telling you how to be better, to improve, to go farther, faster, stronger than you […]

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Caught & Shot

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Off to the powder room

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Reading Time: 3 minutes by Iain MacMillan, editor, from Fall 2012 issue Jennifer, a dandy skier who runs our design studio, piped up the other day about her biggest frustration last winter at the Ski Canada Test […]

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40th Anniversary

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Guest Photo Editor – Henry Georgi Crosshairs Gallery Shooting skiers and publishing ski photos worldwide for almost 30 years, Ontario-native Henry Georgi is Ski Canada’s Guest Photo Editor for our anniversary issue. He moved to Fernie, B.C., […]

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Short Turns: Fall 2011

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The Whistler Cup’s Killer Kinder

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Reading Time: 4 minutes no driver’s licence required by tobias c. van Veen from the Buyer’s Guide 2012 issue. With Lady Gaga cranked from a stereo pitched precariously in the snowbank, a swarm of […]

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Short Turns * Buyer’s Guide 2012

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Reading Time: 7 minutes LET’S MAKE A DEAL ❖As foreign as they are to the entire ski world beyond Ontario, western New York and New Zealand, private ski clubs, where the membership owns the infrastructure and either […]

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Short Turns: Spring 2011

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Reading Time: 5 minutes The ultimate yard sale ?After 35 years, Vancouver-based Intrawest, the former owner of Whistler-Blackcomb, Tremblant, CMH Heliskiing as well as other ski resorts and major real estate ventures in Canada, U.S. […]

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Talkin’ Proud – My Home Hill

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Reading Time: 21 minutes Ski Canada chatted with some passionate locals who have had a longstanding love affair with their home hill. Blue Mountain, ON Le Massif, QC Mont-Sainte-Anne, QC Tremblant, QC Banff, AB […]

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Short Turns: Travel Guide 2011

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Join the club The Louise Plus Card comes with a nice plus this season, two actually: Kicking Horse and Castle Mountain have been added to the loyalty skipass program. $99 […]

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A ski safari through four Rocky Mountain resorts

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Reading Time: 10 minutes Lake Louise, Panorama, Fernie and Castle Mountain proved to be the perfect picks for a good ol’ ski safari. Photos by Josie Boulding It hasn’t snowed in a month.” Not […]

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New & Improved

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Reading Time: 15 minutes A roundup of 10 top resorts on the road from Calgary (from Buyer’s Guide 2011 issue) Last fall it seemed as if Divine Intervention itself was about to lift the […]

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