Making Tracks in Northern BC
Reading Time: 9 minutesBY 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 minutesWhether 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 minutesBoulder 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 minutesWith 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 minutesTo 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 minutesTo 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 minutesTo 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 minutesThere’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 minutesANDREW 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 minutesSince 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 minutesRuedi 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 minutesA 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 minutesfrom 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 minutesThe 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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