First Tracks
6 Ski Films to Stream Now.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFrom now until December 10th, Ski Canada readers can stream many of the films that were featured in Vancouver theatres in mid-November.
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OUTING NORM
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.
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On Speed
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, […]
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50 Years of Fun
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 […]
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In Guide We Trust
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 […]
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The Cost of Skiing
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 […]
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Loving RED – Red Mt. BC
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 […]
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Bordering on the Ridiculous
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 […]
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10 More Things to Worry About
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 […]
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How My Ski Season Ended
Reading Time: 5 minutesby 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 […]
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The Other Side of Iran
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe 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 […]
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