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12 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER

Reading Time: 5 minutes How to tell your partner you’re going skiing (again) Every so often, couples have to engage in what my lawyer friend (let’s call him John, since that’s his name) labels “difficult […]

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Buyer’s Guide 2024

Reading Time: 2 minutes Available now: Ski Canada’s 2024 Buyer’s Guide! Dive into gear innovations, trends, and 23 Go-Anywhere Skis reviewed – your ultimate ski season prep starts here! Available in print & digital […]

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Hello BC! The Freeride World Tour Returns to Kicking Horse for another Wild Ride

Reading Time: 4 minutes Dominique Daher – FWT18 – Kicking Horse Get ready for big air, mind blowing tricks and spectacular runs. The 16th edition of the Freeride World Tour (FWT) hits B.C.’s Kicking […]

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BOOK AHEAD

Reading Time: 2 minutes In ski towns packed with impressive restos it’s hard work to stand out. Whistler, Banff, and especially Zermatt turned out some zingers in time for Winter 2023, including the new […]

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APRES-SKI? MAIS OUI!

Reading Time: 4 minutes A ski trip to Québec is more than just great snow. So much more!  Nobody in North America knows how to après-ski better than the Québecois. From relaxing spas to […]

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Hands Up, Baby! – a Club Med history

Reading Time: 4 minutes Healthy, happy and still going strong, Club Med continues to give us love. The term “AI” may be bantered about in conversation everywhere these days, often in reference to how […]

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Gear & Gadgets – Winter 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutes Heading to the U.S. or Europe? The quickest and cheapest Rapid Antigen COVID test we could find comes in Proof of Entry’s DIY kit for $25. Test results are verified […]

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Ode to the Ski Master

Reading Time: 2 minutes This is my personal accolade to the late Don Bilodeau (1950-2013). He was my skiing coach. His instruction was delivered in a way I’m sure is unique to me. I […]

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24h Blue Mountain

Reading Time: < 1 minutes 24-hour team relay challenge for charity (skiers and snowboarders welcome) 2020 EVENT VIDEO

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Before Takeoff – the skinny on drones

Reading Time: 4 minutes Pro ski photographer TOM WEAGER has the skinny on drones. The art of visually capturing the best of our sport has a long and entertaining history. When personal-use drones and […]

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Gear & Gadgets – Vol 50 #3

Reading Time: 5 minutes Goat power! With a 70:30 mohair-nylon ratio, Chamonix-based Black Crows promises its all-new, 100 per cent waterproof Pilus skins ($269) to be “the ideal partner for gliding serenely toward happiness.” […]

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Ski Canada @50 – Shooting the Prime Minister

Reading Time: 2 minutes by Don Weixl Jean Chrétien’s visit in 1995 had about 20 people skiing with him. I was asked to join the group for photos at the Putnam Creek area of […]

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Just Watch Me – Apple Fitness

Reading Time: 3 minutes Get fit for ski season with the Apple Fitness+ program. Okay, I’m game. Ted Ligety and Apple have convinced me to shape up before ski season. Or at least stand […]

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Prix Fixe in Charlevoix

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Long before our little pandemic thing arrived, Club Med announced construction woes would lead to a year-long delay of the iconic all-inclusive brand’s original plans to open its first Canadian […]

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Start Your Day With a Descent

Reading Time: < 1 minutes There’s nothing like getting away from the madding crowd with a day of AT. But getting to the summit for your first run can be quite a slog, involving a […]

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Withnail and I

Reading Time: 8 minutes Just like the ’80s cult film, our road trip through B.C.’s ski country took Murphy’s Law to new heights. BY P.D. MARWOOD ILLUSTRATIONS BY Bintang Suhadiyono Hmm…it looked bigger online,” […]

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Surviving 60 – Summit Lake

Reading Time: 2 minutes   “Even on a powder day Summit can be busy with 30 or 40 people skiing,” says one smiley and proud skier at Summit Lake Ski Area near Nakusp, B.C. “Summit […]

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Bunk With a View – Red Mountain

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Red Mountain redefines the term “staying on-mountain” this season with the addition of the intriguing Constella, off the top of Paradise Chair. A new collection of six cozy cabins and […]

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Gear & Gadgets – Vol 49 #3

Reading Time: 6 minutes You’ve reached the summit, the sun’s gone, the wind’s picked up… You know that cold, clammy feeling, especially on your lower back, whether it’s after a huffy-puffy skin uphill or […]

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Crosshairs 49.1

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The Swiss Connection

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Keep The Dream Alive – Italy

Reading Time: 11 minutes At the age of seven I was a ski-god. And to prove it, I still have my gold Scuola di Sci badge from one of our annual family holidays to […]

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How We Spent Our Coronacation

Reading Time: 4 minutes by PAUL OSAK * photography STEVE SHANNON On March 18, at the height of what was arguably the best ski season in recent memory, my wife, Megan, and I decided […]

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Buyer’s Guide 2021

Reading Time: < 1 minutes It’s on its way. Ski Canada’s annual Buyer’s Guide issue with Canada’s largest, most extensive guide to new gear starts off the ski season. We’ve created sections to make browsing […]

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