Where Every Turn Counts – Ontario

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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 […]

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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 […]

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It’s In The Cards – backcountry risk management

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Reading Time: 4 minutes A unique course teaches you how to make better decisions and minimize risk. Right until the snow starts to slide we are partying. It’s a weekday and we’re six dads […]

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Powder Buyer’s Guide 2022 pt 8 – Gear & Gadgets

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Reading Time: 5 minutes AVALANCHE SAFETY  Gear up for sliding beyond the ski area boundary with these essentials. Osprey Soelden Pro: Along with the women’s Sopris, this avalanche pack uses an electronic power source […]

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Carving Up The Backcountry – Callaghan Country

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Reading Time: 7 minutes There’s no better place than Callaghan Country to learn how to share. Ski fast. Take chances.” This is Guillaume Otis’s advice at the top of our first run in the […]

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2022 Powder Buyer’s Guide pt 6 – skis

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Reading Time: 4 minutes CELEBRITY SKI LINE  Over the last decade Kye Petersen has earned a reputation as one of the world’s best big-mountain skiers, stomping airs and bombing faces onboard planks made by […]

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2022 Powder Buyer’s Guide pt 4

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Reading Time: 2 minutes 50/50 BOOTS – ALPINE TOURING In order to see where skiing is heading, it’s often illuminating to watch where the energy and R&D are going. And much of that is […]

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2022 Powder Buyer’s Guide pt 3

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Reading Time: 3 minutes TESTED HEAD TO HEAD PUFFY PROTECTION We never went ski touring without a puffy for packable warmth and a shell for weather protection. Most of the time we wear both […]

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2022 Powder Buyer’s Guide pt 2

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Reading Time: 2 minutes TESTED HEAD TO HEAD BACKCOUNTRY HELMETS  That which happens at the resort, slowly migrates beyond the boundaries. And so, helmets are becoming more common far from the ski hill. A […]

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Instinct Original Sender – Test 2022

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Reading Time: < 1 minutes SKI CANADA TEST 2022 INSTINCT ORIGINAL SENDER (O//S) * FREERIDE/POWDER BEST FOR: Charging in big terrain. Instinct skis stand out. They’re one of the few with a contoured cap construction, […]

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Dynastar M-Free 99 – Test 2022

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Reading Time: 2 minutes SKI CANADA TEST 2022 DYNASTAR M-FREE 99 * FREERIDE/POWDER BEST FOR: Playful feel of a freeride ski, with the versatility of an all-mountain ski. An addition to Dynastar’s M-Free line, […]

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DPS Pagoda RP 112 – Test 2022

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Reading Time: 2 minutes SKI CANADA TEST 2022 DPS PAGODA RP 112 * FREERIDE/POWDER BEST FOR: Tracking up the trees. DPS has three different constructions: Pagoda Piste, Pagoda Tour and, in between and redesigned […]

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Starting Out? 5 things to think about backcountry

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Reading Time: < 1 minutes Five things to think about if you’re heading to the backcountry. 1. Plan local, plan modest: Don’t underestimate the time it takes to move, manage your gear and comfort, and make […]

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Zag Slap 104 – Test 2022

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Reading Time: 2 minutes SKI CANADA TEST 2022 ZAG SLAP 104 * FREERIDE/POWDER BEST FOR: A weapon for backcountry skiers focused on the down. Zag, a Chamonix-based ski manufacturer relatively new to Canada, calls […]

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2022 Powder Buyer’s Guide

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Reading Time: 2 minutes 2022 Powder Buyer’s Guide Big air, steep lines, deep snow and untracked slopes have always been the aspirational aspects of skiing. They looked like fun in the movies and magazine […]

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In Guide We Trust

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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 […]

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The Aftermath – Mt. Rescuers Pay the Price

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Rescuers also pay a price so we can play in the mountains. Large numbers of skiers are socially distancing themselves from ski resorts entirely this winter, but how prepared are […]

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Be Smarter This Year

Reading Time: 2 minutes After their busiest summer ever, search and rescue (SAR) groups in B.C. are gearing up for an ominous winter. Calls to volunteer crews increased approximately 30 per cent during the […]

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8 Canadian Alpine Lodges

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Eight Canadian alpine lodges BY STEVEN THRENDYLE  PHOTOGRAPHY BY RYAN CREARY Backcountry skiing has been part of the B.C. landscape since the mid-1980s, but thanks to huge advances in off-grid […]

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Powder Buyer’s Guide 2021

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Reading Time: 12 minutes Whether you find it in the trees a few metres from the run or deep in the backcountry after a long skin up, there’s nothing like the feeling of choking […]

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Dream Planner – Banff

Reading Time: < 1 minutes With 6,641 sq km of mountains to explore in Banff National Park, where does an adventurous skier start? Nowadays, most backcountry skiers start with Marcus Baranow’s Confessions of a Ski […]

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FOMO on Faux-Mo? Québec

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Head to Quebec’s Iron Road, Via Ferraski, at Palissades de Charlevoix. I’ve earned my fair share of turns over the years, but never quite like this. The first half of […]

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Why Shames?

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Reading Time: 9 minutes The incentive to move from Sweden to Canada goes beyond the legendary powder and vast backcountry of this Northern B.C. community. story and photos by MATTIAS FREDRIKSSON After the driest […]

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Chatter Creek – Give Ski Touring A Try

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Reading Time: 7 minutes BACKCOUNTRY SKI GUIDE BRODIE ST. JULIAN shares his enthusiasm about Chatter Creek’s new ski-touring program. As a ski guide—and amateur psychologist/sociologist—I’ve encountered a lot of different types of skiers at […]

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