First Tracks

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: 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 From now until December 10th, Ski Canada readers can stream many of the films that were featured in Vancouver theatres in mid-November.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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 […]