Vol. 52, Issue 1

$9.99

Buyer’s Guide 2025

(108 pages)

The 2024 Buyer’s Guide issue offers a comprehensive look at the season’s most notable ski gear, including in-depth testing and reviews from technical editor Ryan Stuart. In addition to equipment coverage, the issue features reporting on emerging ski destinations, sustainability efforts in the industry, and personal stories from across the ski world. Articles include a profile of Taos’s push toward net-zero operations, a closer look at Whitewater’s steady growth, a humorous dispatch from Davos, and reflections on lifelong skiing from a newly trained instructor. A useful resource for gear decisions and a broader view of ski culture.

Buyer’s Guide 2025

(108 pages)

The 2024 Buyer’s Guide issue offers a comprehensive look at the season’s most notable ski gear, including in-depth testing and reviews from technical editor Ryan Stuart. In addition to equipment coverage, the issue features reporting on emerging ski destinations, sustainability efforts in the industry, and personal stories from across the ski world. Articles include a profile of Taos’s push toward net-zero operations, a closer look at Whitewater’s steady growth, a humorous dispatch from Davos, and reflections on lifelong skiing from a newly trained instructor. A useful resource for gear decisions and a broader view of ski culture.

FEATURES

BUYER’S GUIDE 2024 Researching and testing the year’s best new gear is a job with unique, if subtle, hazards best left to the experts. Our technical editor RYAN STUART obliges.

SKI CANADA TEST And the winner is…anyone who uses our 42nd-annual Ski Test of 23 new models  to find their own best Ski of the Year. BY RYAN STUART

L’ESPRIT LIBRE The new Tignes Club Med shows the famous chain is going all-inclusive on renewal. BY IAIN MacMILLAN

CRASHING THE SUMMIT At Davos, pretend power-brokers NIGEL HARRISON and  IAIN MacMILLAN  are okay with a new world order that involves Swiss cheese, potatoes and powder. 

TAOS SUSTAINED This New Mexican hideaway has a reputation for steep skiing, showoff bumps… and a net-zero footprint, an industry first. BY LORI KNOWLES

MODESTY BECOMES IT B.C.’s cozy Whitewater Ski Resort grows into itself. BY IAN MERRINGER

Ski Bum 55 LOUISE HUDSON takes retirement to a whole new level by training as a ski instructor.

REGULARS

FIRST TRACKS Our editor-in-chief has his run (at the publisher). BY IAIN MacMILLAN

SHORT TURNS News, gossip and everything in between.

SLOPE ANGLES Don’t even think about trying to bring sexy back. BY STEVEN THRENDYLE

DROPPING IN Guest columnist Naomi Buck knows what you might not about single-parent ski families.

CROSSHAIRS A skier’s gallery.

SKILL SCHOOL Time to translate summer skills to the snow. BY NIGEL HARRISON

CAUGHT AND SHOT BY MATTIAS FREDRIKSSON