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Welcome to the Club

Reading Time: 2 minutes As North American skiers patiently await news on when Club Med will return to the continent, the iconic French holiday company was busy last December opening its latest four-trident village in […]

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Lotschental – Hidden Valley

Reading Time: 5 minutes Switzerland’s Lötschental is the quintessential off-the-beaten-track destination for curious skiers.  Tschäggättä — you know the party is going to be good if the name starts with four consonants and includes […]

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What’s in your pack?

Reading Time: 3 minutes ‘‘Is there something in here you want to show me? ’’ The bored face at airport security in Kelowna suddenly brightened as my backpack went through the X-ray machine. As the […]

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What’s in a name?

Reading Time: 3 minutes I’m so mad at my buddy Christopher. He’s president at Sun Peaks and you’d think he’d appreciate my offer to name a few runs on the new terrain that’s opening […]

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In Deep at St. Moritz

Reading Time: 9 minutes So, a priest, a mountain guide and an editor walk into a bar. Then a conga line goes by. No, seriously. I had just returned “home” to Club Med St. […]

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Are You Ready for Winter?

Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s been several years since I’ve prepared my annual pre-season quiz so for those who have forgotten the routine, I need you to find a comfortable chair, a bright light […]

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Head Tax for the Hired Help

Reading Time: 3 minutes “Tourism is the Rodney Dangerfield of the economic well-being of Canada,” Dave Brownlie, Whistler’s president and CEO, joked with me on the phone back in August, “and skiing is even […]

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Shivering in the Chic-Chocs

Reading Time: 8 minutes Despite a fight with Old Man Winter, Quebec’s storybook Gaspé region more than made up for it in warmth, hospitality and haute cuisine. By Iain MacMillan in the Winter 2014 […]

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Where are the best skiers?

Reading Time: 4 minutes by Iain MacMillan in the Winter 2014 issue Ski Test Editor Ron Betts and I were disagreeing the other day about where to find the best skiers in the country. […]

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Return of the ski bum

Reading Time: 3 minutes Years ago I wrote something in The Globe and Mail about stuff skiers aren’t allowed to do anymore, and the many responses were pretty much unanimous with: “Yeah, when did […]

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Ode to the weekend warrior

Reading Time: 4 minutes by Iain MacMillan, editor, in Fall 2013 issue Dolan and a bunch of guys bagsied an old schoolhouse (that came with a hippie who lived upstairs) rooted atop the breezy […]

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Return Trip

Reading Time: 10 minutes The tiny, perfect village of Champéry—and massive Portes du Soleil region—welcomed Ski Canada on its third annual Readers’ Trip to Switzerland. By Iain MacMillan  |  Photos by Marty McLennan It’s […]

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Smart Financial Planning

Reading Time: 4 minutes Well, it’s that time of the year again when the keenest of us are champing at the bit and poring over all the new gear and gadgets that are showing […]

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Crisis averted

Reading Time: 3 minutes by Iain MacMillan from Winter 2013 issue Anyone who skis off-piste knows how terrain choices often must be altered if you want to keep a boarder on board. There was […]

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One and only Aspen

Reading Time: 2 minutes by Iain MacMillan from December 2012 issue I believe the reaction of some guests is real – very real Dieter, the pro-cricketer-turned-bellhop from South Africa, looked back at us in his […]

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Off to the powder room

Reading Time: 3 minutes by Iain MacMillan, editor, from Fall 2012 issue Jennifer, a dandy skier who runs our design studio, piped up the other day about her biggest frustration last winter at the Ski Canada Test […]

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My best run

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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Hard-headed Nova Scotians

Reading Time: 3 minutes by Iain MacMillan from Spring 2012 issue   Well, we all knew it was going to happen sooner or later; we just didn’t expect Nova Scotia to lead the charge into our new, […]

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4 Day Road Trip

Reading Time: 9 minutes An excellent adventure is easy when you include Monashee Powder, Red Mountain and Whitewater by IAIN MACMILLAN from Winter 2012 issue * photos: COLLEEN GENTEMANN     I was more curious […]

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Driven to Distraction

Reading Time: 3 minutes First Tracks by Iain MacMillan from Winter 2012 issue Driven to distraction After an epic five-resort road trip in Austria years ago, George Koch had left me in charge of returning the rental car […]

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The way we were

Reading Time: 3 minutes   I wasn’t of working age when the Ski Canada Journal, as we were once called, started rolling off the presses 40 years ago. I was busy taping Jean-Claude Killy, Nancy Greene and “Keep […]

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Big White & the Sundance Kids

Reading Time: 7 minutes Three families headed west for a long weekend to remember from Fall 2011 issue “Look, Daddy, the sign has 10 rules on it,” 13-year-old Meg, our middle and most feral child, […]

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Clive Hobson 1948-2011

Reading Time: 3 minutes   from Fall 2011 issue About a thousand years ago, I joined the publishing house of Maclean Hunter as a very junior editor at Canadian Yachting magazine. With serious neighbours […]

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Group On!

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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