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How Gnar is Too Far? – Sunshine Village
Reading Time: 5 minutes Sunshine is one of many resorts that have opened tougher terrain to meet the demand of today’s stronger skiers. photos: DAN HUDSON Our unease grew as she hiked past us […]
Read more »Where Every Turn Counts – Ontario
Reading Time: 9 minutes What Ontario lacks in vertical, it more than makes up in backcountry powder. Late February snowbanks were cramping the style of Forestry Tower Road as it snaked deeper and higher […]
Read more »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 […]
Read more »Digital Lemmings – Touring With Apps
Reading Time: 7 minutes Your phone has become the ultimate backcountry resource, but should you let it make all your decisions? If we’re going to do this, we need to follow the rules.” Chris […]
Read more »Ski Canada @ 50 – Over The Hill At 40
Reading Time: 2 minutes When you picture the world’s most classic downhill tracks, most people think of Kitzbühel’s Hahnenkamm, Wengen’s Lauberhorn or Canada’s own Lake Louise. While these are certainly gems, there’s one other […]
Read more »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 […]
Read more »Ski Canada @ 50 – World Beaters
Reading Time: 7 minutes WORLD BEATERS From the skin-tight grey suit of a young Ken Read to the baggy slopestyle britches of Megan Oldham, Canada’s top skiers have evolved through the decades while […]
Read more »Seemed Like a Good Idea – Scott boots
Reading Time: 2 minutes As leather succumbed to the superiority of plastic in the 1960s, there was a period of experimentation and innovation that saw many new, now memorable, ski boot designs, such as […]
Read more »Ski Canada @ 50 – Canadian Badasses
Reading Time: 5 minutes From Verbier and Chamonix to Baffin Island and Mount Waddington, Canada’s most compelling ski stories often take place thousands of kilometres from the closest condo hot tub or high-speed chairlift. […]
Read more »Ski Canada @ 50 – 50 Years of Equipment Evolution
Reading Time: 3 minutes Former Ski Canada technical editor Martin Olson of Golden, B.C., takes a nostalgic look back at some of the gear that made us ski better and safer. I cringe when […]
Read more »Ski Canada @ 50 – Style Icons: Canadian Classics
Reading Time: 4 minutes DAVID S. REID DOWN ERA: A staple in the winter Eaton’s catalogue as well as skiing specialty shops across Canada, David S. Reid was synonymous with skiwear in the 1970s, […]
Read more »Ski Canada @ 50 – It’s Been Uphill Ever Since
Reading Time: < 1 minute Back in the ’70s, most Canadians learned to ski at a humble community hill, with its collection of rope tows and T-bars. Fixed-grip double chairlifts that wouldn’t gnaw the palms […]
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