Making Tracks in Northern BC
Reading Time: 9 minutes BY ANDREW FINDLAY | PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVE OGLE Skiing is a fickle business. You plan months in advance then hope for three things: powder, bluebird weather and snowpack stability. In […]
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Kimberley Kids
Reading Time: 7 minutes Whether it’s part of a powdery road trip or the chosen destination, this beloved Kootenay resort knows how to keep families happy. by ANDREW FINDLAY * photos: STEVE OGLE * […]
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Away From It All – Boulder Hut
Reading Time: 6 minutes Boulder Hut has everything you want in a backcountry destination—and everything you don’t. by ANDREW FINDLAY * photos: STEVE OGLE * in December 2017 issue It was as though my […]
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Sharing The Great Outdoors – Valkyr Lodge
Reading Time: 9 minutes With kids in tow it’s still possible to experience the bliss of the backcountry. by ANDREW FINDLAY and photos by STEVE OGLE in the December 2016 issue I’d reached that […]
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The Past is Now – pt 3 Whitewater
Reading Time: 4 minutes To most people the Kootenays equate with powder, a lifestyle so consumed by the pursuit of fresh tracks that powder ranks up there with the other basic essentials of life: […]
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The Past is Now – pt. 2 Red Mountain
Reading Time: 4 minutes To most people the Kootenays equate with powder, a lifestyle so consumed by the pursuit of fresh tracks that powder ranks up there with the other basic essentials of life: […]
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The Past is Now – pt. 1 Revelstoke
Reading Time: 4 minutes To most people the Kootenays equate with powder, a lifestyle so consumed by the pursuit of fresh tracks that powder ranks up there with the other basic essentials of life: […]
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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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Up There
Reading Time: 6 minutes ANDREW FINDLAY headed to Northern Escape Heli-Skiing in his search for pristine powder in a pineapple express season. The word pineapple, with its breezy Caribbean connotations, is welcome in any […]
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Forward Thinking
Reading Time: 8 minutes Since Tod Mountain became Sun Peaks more than 20 years ago, the resort has maintained a well-mapped road into the future. By Andrew Findlay // PHOTOS BY ADAM STEIN from […]
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Tough Love
Reading Time: 10 minutes Ruedi Beglinger has made a business out of challenging his guests to push their limits in the alpine. By ANDREW FINDLAY from Fall 2012 It’s ping-pong-ball visibility on Tumbledown Mountain, […]
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Seeing Red at Big White
Reading Time: 7 minutes A trip to sample Big White’s early season snow paired nicely with the best from more than 30 Okanagan wineries. Photos by Gavin Crawford From the Travel Guide 2011 issue […]
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Crossing the Line
Reading Time: 5 minutes from Buyer’s Guide 2011 issue There’s $50 in my ski pants that says we can beat the $1-billion Vancouver-Whistler Olympic security dragnet. It’s a late February winter day. F-16s circle […]
Read more »The Hills Are Alive…with the sound of racing
Reading Time: 7 minutes The Austrian national ski team ?chose Sun Peaks years ago to kick-start ?its season ‘‘I’m so hot,” Maria Holaus says, brushing a wave of long blond hair over her shoulder […]
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