Along for the Ride

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Reading Time: 8 minutes When it comes to the drudgery of organized press trips, some ski writers are in a class of their own. by James Cove; illustrations by Tina Holdcroft –  from Fall […]

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English and Freeride Spoken Here

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Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s hard to tell who’s had a bigger influence over the Swiss town of Verbier, the adoring Brits or the international BigMountain set. Story and photos by Marty McLennan It’s […]

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How Safe?

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Reading Time: 8 minutes Steven Threndyle examines what’s been done to ensure the safety of Ski Cross athletes since the tragic death of Nik Zoricic. Winter 2013 issue  Taking a tragic fall on a […]

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Short Turns: December 2012

Reading Time: 6 minutes from December 2012 issue KITESURFING ON SKIS Soaring on skis through the air—10 metres off the snow—is a seductive high. “It’s a very addictive sport, a tremendous amount of fun […]

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Short Turns: Buyer’s Guide 2013

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Reading Time: 7 minutes ONTARIO’S YEAR OF THE LIFT ❖ This is the year of the new lift—at least in Ontario. Despite a low- (or no-) snow season in 2012, at least five Ontario ski areas are […]

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Group Therapy

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Reading Time: 8 minutes Skiing Switzerland’s most famous peak can be surprisingly reasonable. Bringing buddies: priceless. TEXT // PHOTOS: MARTY MCLENNAN     Buyer’s Guide 2013 For more of Marty’s photos from the  Zermatt trip click here […]

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My best run

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Reading Time: 3 minutes People often ask me the unanswerable question, “What’s your favourite ski area?” A much more possible discussion might be, “Where was your best run last season?” And there’s an easy reply for that one. […]

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Buyer’s Guide 2013

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Reading Time: < 1 minutes Ski season has begun!   Vol 41 No. 1     The Buyer’s Guide 2013 issue published August 21. Subscriber copies will begin delivery by Canada Post week of August […]

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Grumpy Old Men

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Reading Time: 4 minutes from Fall 2011 issue The other day I was out on the balcony of Mike’s $99-million chalet just blowing smoke with my buds. From the 4,314m summit of Grand Combin […]

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Group On!

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Reading Time: 9 minutes Ski Canada’s first-ever readers’ trip headed to Switzerland’s Grindelwald and the Jungfrau. BY IAIN MACMILLAN    PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARTY MCLENNAN Before Martin Schürmann, our BASE-jumping mountain guide from the Mürren Ski School, hucked his […]

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The Other Side of the Engadine

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Reading Time: 7 minutes From the Buyer’s Guide 2011 issue One corollary of big-mountain skiing is the way the terrain swallows up the people doing it. We had just crested a gentle saddle a […]

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Switzerland on a budget

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Reading Time: 4 minutes From the Fall 2009 issue Hard times need not rule out high times. Even if you’re on a gap year, don’t write off that dream trip to the Alps just […]

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Betcha didn’t know that!

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Reading Time: 4 minutes From the Travel Guide 2010 issue So I am touring the fantastic Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, overlooking Lake Geneva and surrounded by swank villas with swimming pools—perks for the […]

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High on Zermatt

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Reading Time: 10 minutes Skiers of all ages enjoy being overwhelmed by the legendary Swiss resort From Blackcomb to Zermatt, lots of people have skied on a glacier, but how many can say they’ve […]

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Short Turns: Buyers Guide 2010

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Reading Time: 7 minutes Soup’s on! When it comes to accommodation, Big White is one of Canada’s most complete ski-in, skiout resorts. “Home for lunch” can be as easy as choosing from one of […]

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Living the guide life

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Reading Time: 4 minutes From the Buyer’s Guide 2010 issue More than a good life, “it’s a dream come true,” says Hans Solmssen. Hans is at the top of his profession, one of the […]

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European high life

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Nothing defines the European skiing experience better than staying a night in a high-altitude hut. Variously called cabanes, refuges, rifugi or hütte, these shelters on the snow are unparalleled anywhere […]

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Verbier: Switching Gears

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Reading Time: 10 minutes Pounding music, hoarse yells, diminishing inhibitions and a crush of costumed but not heavily clad flesh beggar the senses. Per Jonsson, pro rider, is sporting a short dress, shaved legs, […]

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Building on success

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Reading Time: 4 minutes In the 1920s an impecunious Ernest Hemingway bummed around the Italian Dolomites, hitching rides on pre-dawn milk trains chugging up to high farms, using them as ski lifts. Only a […]

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No fly zone for heli-skiers?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Recent headline news in my local newspaper read: Swiss government is considering banning helicopter skiing across the nation. It wasn’t the first time such a measure was officially considered. Back […]

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Swiss Village by Intrawest

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Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s that good in Bruson. There are only two chairlifts and two brutal T-bars. The groomed piste skiing is distinctly limited, easy enough for an intermediate to exhaust in an […]

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Let the Games Begin

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Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s a question I get asked often, and one that draws more discussion with readers and editors alike than questions of snow quality and slope inclination. (Not that I am […]

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Advice for the Europe-bound

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Why travel all the way to Europe when Canada has some of the best skiing in the world? Well, you could ask any of the Canadians I wrote about last […]

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How sweet it is

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Reading Time: 3 minutes It was Canadian mountain guide John Hogg, for example, who popularized ski safari routes across Switzerland and the Italian Dolomites, and who reconfigured the classic Haute Route ski tour from […]

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