FEATURES
POWDER BUYER’S GUIDE 2024
Endless innovation. That’s how designers describe current strides in powder and backcountry gear. We’ve got the best of 2024—top gear you can take anywhere on the mountain.
BY RYAN STUART, TECHNICAL EDITOR
SKI CANADA TEST PART II
Trees. Open bowls. Steeps. We went beyond the limits to test 19 new powder, freeride and touring skis. Here’s the score for 2024.
BY RYAN STUART
WHY WE SKI
Have you ever asked yourself why you ski? LORI KNOWLES has, along with a hundred others. The answers are uplifting.
COLD TÜRKIYE
Türkiye may not be synonymous with heli-skiing. The Swiss beg to differ.
BY IAIN MacMILLAN
MIRACLE IN UTAH
In one of Utah’s best snow years on record, RON BETTS skis six resorts in six days. He calls it a miracle.
CATCHING THE DRIFT
The wind works hard to create a different kind of skiing at Alberta’s Castle Mountain. So do the locals.
BY IAN MERRINGER
YES, WE ARE THERE
NIGEL HARRISON writes the rulebook on family road-tripping through southern B.C.
REGULARS
FIRST TRACKS
Our editor-in-chief has his run.
BY IAIN MacMILLAN
SHORT TURNS
News, gossip and games of thrones.
SLOPE ANGLES
Catching a lift to the lifts? Protect Our Winters thinks it should be easier.
BY STEVEN THRENDYLE
DROPPING IN
Guest columnist Ingrid Watt on what it’s like learning to ski all over again.
CROSSHAIRS
A skier’s gallery.
SKILL SCHOOL
Your mother always told you to improve your posture. Plus, become a bumps master.
BY NIGEL HARRISON
CAUGHT & SHOT
BY ADAM CLARK
