Iain MacMillan

Reading Time: 3 minutes In the fall, while on a tour of the Völkl factory in Straubing, Germany, I only shut down the manufacturing line once. Accidentally. 

Reading Time: 4 minutes I’ve had more than one friend tell me I would be a lot faster on the skin track if I just stopped talking.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Bridging Europe and Asia, Türkiye has always been a good place to base an army. It turns out it’s also a good place to base a heli-ski operation.

Reading Time: 11 minutes Searching for Ski Canada’s next readers’ trip destination, and maybe a new world order, co-conspirators Nigel and Iain infiltrate Davos.

Reading Time: 3 minutes What kind of water baby are you? Whether it’s on a great big sea or one of Canada’s millions of lakes and rivers, a lot of us want to spend at least part of our off season afloat.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Last week, the always private Paul, surprised and shocked us all when we learnt, too late to say goodbye, that his well-hidden liver cancer had quietly finished such an important chapter in the magazine and ski industries.

Reading Time: 2 minutes iPhone15, Pro and ProMax, brought plenty more notable improvements and updates.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Ski Canada has a secret, a very dark secret, and it’s time to let you in on it. Perhaps you should sit down. We’re now owned…by…a…snowboarder!

It’s true. The latter half of our 52-year existence has involved teasing and taunting our backside brethren but we’re coming clean now.

Reading Time: 19 minutes Photo: Mattias Fredriksson With more moving parts than a Swiss Army knife, two duelling editors ski their way from Saas-Fee and Zermatt to St. Moritz and Engelberg. STORY AND PHOTOS […]

Reading Time: < 1 minutes JOIN US IN SWITZERLAND? Photo:Switzerland Tourism/David Birri It’s been 12 years since Ski Canada’s first “Readers’ Trip to the Alps” started the annual parade of Canadian skiers making new friends on […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Aside from better equipment, speed is a fundamental problem we’ve created since good grooming began in the ’80s It was too icy for Martin Olson, Ski Canada’s technical editor emeritus, […]

Reading Time: 9 minutes Getting the cousins together for the holidays is easy when you plan four days at Selkirk Snowcat Skiing. Being able to assess a situation, think on your feet and react […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes    It’s a bit of a crevasse fall whenever I open an old copy of Ski Canada, or Ski Canada Journal as it all started in 1971. I can pore […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes The best part of autumn is researching, planning and dreaming where the family might go skiing in the winter. Coming from a part of the country where winter didn’t much […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes I can’t remember prices from last season let alone decades ago,” Mike Howard admits when I ask if he thought skiing really is more expensive nowadays. Mike has owned iconic Sepp’s […]

Reading Time: < 1 minutes L’EST GO! Heating up in the Eastern Townships #montsutton #bromontmontagnedexpériences #montorford #owlsheadresort Posted by Ski Canada Magazine on Wednesday, 24 March 2021

Reading Time: 3 minutes My first-ever visit to Rossland, B.C., and its mythical powder mecca RED Mountain was a quarter-century ago when buddy Steve and I were invited to stay with one of RED’s […]

Reading Time: 9 minutes Conjoining Europe and Asia, the former Soviet Republic of Georgia is a historical and cultural jewel—and a skier’s dream. BY IAIN MACMILLAN PHOTOS BY RAY O’REILLY My dad got hot […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes And then his hand started reaching for his gun,” Phil told me on an entertaining phone call from Boston last month. “I had no idea how things were going to […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Hunkered down at the cottage during the summer I was bitten by a bat. In the neck. While I slept. Dodging all the vampire jokes on one of my seven […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes by Iain MacMillan in Buyer’s Guide 2021 Even though I couldn’t see the contents of my ski bag displayed on the airport X-ray machine monitor, I knew immediately why the […]

Reading Time: 7 minutes Capturing the beauty of South Korea was made easier with the new iPhone 11 Pro Back in early December, North Korea’s black comedy of a Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, was […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes The Other Side of Iran Last Valentine’s Day I got a text from our summer-cottage neighbours who live in Virginia. “Happy VD, Canada! What are you up to?” “We just […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes Jules Older, a former editor to a one-time competing publication, called a while ago to let me know that after some research, he decided I’m the longest-sitting ski magazine editor…in […]