Vol. 52, Issue 2

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Fall 2023

(100 pages)

The Fall 2023 issue dives deep into powder and backcountry skiing, with the 2024 Powder Buyer’s Guide and Part II of the Ski Canada Test, covering 19 new freeride and touring skis. Gear editor Ryan Stuart highlights top innovations for advanced terrain. The issue also explores the reasons we ski, heli-skiing in Türkiye, Utah’s record-breaking season, and Castle Mountain’s unique wind-blown conditions. Other highlights include a southern B.C. road trip, skill tips for posture in the bumps, and a look at climate action in ski travel. A well-rounded issue for skiers interested in gear, adventure, and the culture of the sport.

Fall 2023

(100 pages)

The Fall 2023 issue dives deep into powder and backcountry skiing, with the 2024 Powder Buyer’s Guide and Part II of the Ski Canada Test, covering 19 new freeride and touring skis. Gear editor Ryan Stuart highlights top innovations for advanced terrain. The issue also explores the reasons we ski, heli-skiing in Türkiye, Utah’s record-breaking season, and Castle Mountain’s unique wind-blown conditions. Other highlights include a southern B.C. road trip, skill tips for posture in the bumps, and a look at climate action in ski travel. A well-rounded issue for skiers interested in gear, adventure, and the culture of the sport.

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