Iain MacMillan

Reading Time: 3 minutesTHE CAMERA IN YOUR POCKET GETS BETTER Isn’t this cheating?” Antoine yelled at me downslope.  With my iPhone in one ungloved hand, I was using the other to toss a […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesHow to bring winter in —and out — like a lion From Elton John and Naomi Campbell in 1995 (didn’t know she could sing, or either of them could ski), […]

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe snowiest place in Korea isn’t the easiest place to reach but it’s certainly the most memorable.

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Origins of Cat Skiing in British Columbia I’ve heard the line many times from starry-eyed skiers: “You must have the best job in the world!” I’m not talking about […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 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 minutesI’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 minutesBridging 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 minutesSearching for Ski Canada’s next readers’ trip destination, and maybe a new world order, co-conspirators Nigel and Iain infiltrate Davos.

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat 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 minutesLast 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 minutesiPhone15, Pro and ProMax, brought plenty more notable improvements and updates.

Reading Time: 3 minutesSki 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 minutesPhoto: 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 minuteJOIN 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 minutesAside 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 minutesGetting 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 minutesThe 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 minutesI 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 minuteL’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 minutesMy 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 minutesConjoining 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 minutesAnd 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 minutesHunkered 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 […]