Steeped in Culture

Reading Time: 5 minutes It was about this time last year when our middle-child, Meg, then in her final year of high school, decided our upcoming, and “last-ever,” March Break trip to France wasn’t […]

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The Business of Skiing

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Reading Time: 6 minutes What goes around, comes around in the ownership and management of ski resorts. Winter 2015 .. My mind is a lot less cluttered now that I don’t have little resorts […]

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Spoiled Brats

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Reading Time: 10 minutes A Porsche, a helicopter and condos fit for a king—for a pair of low-rent ski bums, it was an assignment to end all others. by Pat Lynch    Photos Gary Davidson  from […]

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Ski by Numbers

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Reading Time: 4 minutes “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics…” Nothing starts a good argument like pulling a statistic out of thin air—or failing to provide context. So, what […]

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A Skier’s Guide to 10 of B.C.’s Best

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Reading Time: 17 minutes From the Continental Divide of the Rocky Mountains to the oceanside majesty of the Coast Range, British Columbia truly lives up to its Latin motto: Splendour Sine Occasu—Splendour Without Diminishment. And […]

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The great unknown – Serfaus, Austria

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Reading Time: 9 minutes From the Travel Guide 2011 issue Serfaus, Austria, isn’t a popular destination for North Americans, but after days of powdery surprises George Koch and friends think that should change Hour […]

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The End of the Bilodeau Reign

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Reading Time: 7 minutes It’s the end of an era for the only privately run ski school at a major resort in Canada. He’d ride up the mountain first thing to work on his […]

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New & Improved

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Reading Time: 15 minutes A roundup of 10 top resorts on the road from Calgary (from Buyer’s Guide 2011 issue) Last fall it seemed as if Divine Intervention itself was about to lift the […]

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Family Ties

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Reading Time: 10 minutes Breckenridge and Heavenly may share a lot in common with?their sister resorts of Vail, Beaver Creek and Keystone,? but they can quite happily stand alone. As a judge, I wasn’t […]

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Calgary Roundup

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Reading Time: 12 minutes 10 great ski areas tempt locals and vistors alike with all that’s new and improved From Fall 2009 issue Ski resort marketing people are somehow psychologically wired to look ahead. […]

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Golden Dreams

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Alert readers will recall my chronicling of the Kicking Horse story since it began as a glimmer in the eye of Vancouver skier-visionary Oberto Oberti. I was an instant convert […]

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Building on success

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Reading Time: 4 minutes In the 1920s an impecunious Ernest Hemingway bummed around the Italian Dolomites, hitching rides on pre-dawn milk trains chugging up to high farms, using them as ski lifts. Only a […]

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Skiing within your budget

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Reading Time: 5 minutes There’s a weird dichotomy in the way skiing markets itself. Our sport’s image is self-consciously elitist. Glitz, glam and bling. Celebrity athletes performing superhuman record-setting feats on the racecourse or […]

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Brave new world

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Reading Time: 3 minutes In mid-August, the 20-year-long era of the company that operates Whistler-Blackcomb, Mont Tremblant, Panorama, Blue Mountain and numerous other resorts came to an end, or turned a page in its […]

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No more mumbo-Jumbo

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Reading Time: 3 minutes I figured I’d have long been writing travel articles on riding Canada’s highest ski lifts and exploring almost 2,000 verical metres of dramatic, glaciated terrain. No such luck. Still, Vancouver […]

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Holding Court at Castle

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Reading Time: 4 minutes “Last season we had some of the lowest lows you could possibly imagine,” says Andrew Rusynyk, Castle’s director of snow sports, marketing and development. “We had liftees and instructors handshovelling […]

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Invasion of the Calgreedians

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Reading Time: 4 minutes In certain social circles up and down the Rocky Mountain Trench, the long valley in southeastern B.C. that separates the Rockies from the Purcells, Selkirks and Monashees, they are known […]

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Best of skiing in Canada

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Reading Time: 9 minutes It’s time again, another year and another annual insiders’ look at what makes Canadian skiing so distinguished. These pages aren’t filled with facts and stats you’ll find in brochures and […]

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