Big-mountain life

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Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s just after 10:00 a.m. at the Sunburst Lodge at Sun Peaks and the teenage racing throng is lining up for another warm-and-sticky cinnamon bun break. With fingers too gooey […]

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Is that your final answer?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s nothing like a quiz to get me stoked on winter. Devised through years of consultation with Austrian ski-psychologists, Swiss statisticians and snow scientists from Nelson and Smithers, the following […]

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Where to now?

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Reading Time: 2 minutes From politics to powder, George Koch and I often end a discussion by agreeing to disagree. But his diatribe that starts on page 22 this issue on the frustrations of […]

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Knee Canada

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Reading Time: 3 minutes When my wife collected me at the hospital, the look on her face went from incredulous to amusement. I was still groggy from a general anaesthetic after having my right […]

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Our readers write

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Reading Time: 3 minutes When Managing Editor Anne and I read manuscripts destined for these pages, we often write margin notes to each other questioning style, clarification or fact checking. Sometimes a facetious comment […]

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Adaptation comes naturally to skiiers

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Art Director Norm and Managing Editor Anne were giggling on a conference call the other day when I had to leave the conversation briefly to chase a black squirrel out […]

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The hills are alive

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Reading Time: 2 minutes While Ski Canada staff slaved away another hot summer in the city preparing the annual Buyer’s Guide, our writers, photographers, ski testers and other latch-ons continued to lead some pretty […]

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But the brochure said…

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Reading Time: 3 minutes My parents bought a funky little condo, or townhouse I guess they’re called now, at our ski hill in 1969. The green shag carpet, orange couch and assorted kitsch above […]

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Time to take the plunge

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Reading Time: 3 minutes The greatest schism between eastern and western Canadians isn’t about politics or power – it’s about powder. Shocking to most skiers in the west is the fact many easterners are […]

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The politics of skiing

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Why is it that all of our recent prime ministers of the Liberal faith have been skiers, indeed good skiers, while none of the Tory PMs or leaders of the […]

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Top 10 reasons why it’s going to be a great winter

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Every autumn I partake in the spreading of all sorts of ridiculously entertaining prophecies about why it’s going to be a great winter for skiers. I’m not talking about the […]

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One man’s trash…

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Surprisingly, technical editor Martin Olson, who writes half of this Buyer’s Guide issue and most of the instructional stories every season, is as good with his hands in the summer […]

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That ’70s magazine

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Where were you in ’72? I admit I don’t remember spending much time poring over the mostly black and white racing news offered by Ski Canada Journal, as the country’s […]

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