In science we trust

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Several readers responded to my article of two years earlier (Is it all doom and gloom? – Fall 2007) that had circumspectly raised questions about (okay, joyously heaped scorn upon) […]

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Short Turns: Fall 2010

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Reading Time: 6 minutes A Hard Day’s Night If skiing non-stop for 24 hours straight sounds exhausting, you can always team up with friends and alternate relay-style like thousands of others do at Tremblant […]

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Short Turns: Winter 2010

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Slide of the century March 4 will be a somber date for anyone around Rogers Pass between Golden and Revelstoke, B.C. It was 100 years ago that Canada’s worst avalanche […]

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Short Turns: Buyers Guide 2011

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Reading Time: 9 minutes A century of capital skiing It’s been a while, about 100 years, since Ottawa’s posh Rockliffe Park suburb has seen a ski jump tower, but the Ottawa Ski Club (OSC) […]

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Big-mountain life

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Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s just after 10:00 a.m. at the Sunburst Lodge at Sun Peaks and the teenage racing throng is lining up for another warm-and-sticky cinnamon bun break. With fingers too gooey […]

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Is that your final answer?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s nothing like a quiz to get me stoked on winter. Devised through years of consultation with Austrian ski-psychologists, Swiss statisticians and snow scientists from Nelson and Smithers, the following […]

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Where to now?

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Reading Time: 2 minutes From politics to powder, George Koch and I often end a discussion by agreeing to disagree. But his diatribe that starts on page 22 this issue on the frustrations of […]

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Short Turns: Winter 2009

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Reading Time: < 1 minutes An edge on the competition Felix Ski Services, Calgary * Neck deep for Knee Deep Whitewater BC * Louise on ice Ice Magic Festival * Porter Class to Tremblant * […]

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Try something new

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Reading Time: 3 minutes by Chris Lennon If you’ve already read Ski Canada’s Buyer’s Guide last issue, you will have noticed that reverse camber skis (their tips and tails don’t touch when the ski […]

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Knee Canada

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Reading Time: 3 minutes When my wife collected me at the hospital, the look on her face went from incredulous to amusement. I was still groggy from a general anaesthetic after having my right […]

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Our readers write

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Reading Time: 3 minutes When Managing Editor Anne and I read manuscripts destined for these pages, we often write margin notes to each other questioning style, clarification or fact checking. Sometimes a facetious comment […]

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Adaptation comes naturally to skiiers

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Art Director Norm and Managing Editor Anne were giggling on a conference call the other day when I had to leave the conversation briefly to chase a black squirrel out […]

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The hills are alive

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Reading Time: 2 minutes While Ski Canada staff slaved away another hot summer in the city preparing the annual Buyer’s Guide, our writers, photographers, ski testers and other latch-ons continued to lead some pretty […]

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Garage sale: one slightly used snowboard

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Reading Time: 3 minutes I was cleaning out the garage on Saturday and among the bikes, sails, bottles of pesticide from the ’50s, and raccoon and opossum dens I found my old snowboard. Yes, […]

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One man’s trash…

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Surprisingly, technical editor Martin Olson, who writes half of this Buyer’s Guide issue and most of the instructional stories every season, is as good with his hands in the summer […]

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Uplifting Conversation

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Growing up, I remember my parents always telling me not to talk to strangers–except, of course, when riding a chairlift. Funny, but these chairlift conversations are some of my earliest […]

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Canada’s best from Greene to Grandi

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Thomas Grandi’s 2004-05 World Cup ski racing season was so good it needs some historical perspective wrapped around it to be properly appreciated. Going into this season, his 12th on […]

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That ’70s magazine

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Where were you in ’72? I admit I don’t remember spending much time poring over the mostly black and white racing news offered by Ski Canada Journal, as the country’s […]

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