Vol. 55, Issue 1

$9.99

2027 Buyer’s Guide

(92 pages)

Your go-to guide for the new ski season, packed with Ski Canada’s picks for the best skis, boots, clothing and gear for 2027. This issue also features our biggest Ski Canada Ski Test yet, with 50 skis reviewed to help you find the right pair for your style and terrain.

Beyond the gear, join us at Club Med, visit Quebec’s Mont Grand-Fonds to see how one entrepreneur is rethinking the ski experience, get ski-fit for winter, sharpen your technique in Skill School, and catch up on the latest news, opinions and mountain culture from across the ski world.

Loaded with expert advice, entertaining reads and standout photography, the Buyer’s Guide 2027 is essential pre-season reading for skiers ready to make the most of winter.

2027 Buyer’s Guide

(92 pages)

Your go-to guide for the new ski season, packed with Ski Canada’s picks for the best skis, boots, clothing and gear for 2027. This issue also features our biggest Ski Canada Ski Test yet, with 50 skis reviewed to help you find the right pair for your style and terrain.

Beyond the gear, join us at Club Med, visit Quebec’s Mont Grand-Fonds to see how one entrepreneur is rethinking the ski experience, get ski-fit for winter, sharpen your technique in Skill School, and catch up on the latest news, opinions and mountain culture from across the ski world.

Loaded with expert advice, entertaining reads and standout photography, the Buyer’s Guide 2027 is essential pre-season reading for skiers ready to make the most of winter.

FEATURES

BUYER’S GUIDE 2025 Gear editor RYAN STUART’S illustrated guide to the innovations and trends sure to shape skiing in 2025 and beyond.

SKI CANADA TEST Every year we test the best and tell you what you need to know about the year’s new ski designs. BY RYAN STUART

WHO GETS TO SKI? Skiing has never been a cheap sport, but is it getting beyond the reach of the middle class? ADAM BISBY crunches the numbers.

TRIPLE THREAT Fernie’s Dylan Siggers never lacked ways to express himself. Now that he’s all grown up, he has even more. BY ANDREW FINDLAY

ANDERMATT GOES EPIC Are the ever-neutral Swiss ready for an alliance with Vail Resorts? Envoy NIGEL HARRISON visits Andermatt to find out.

WHY WE SKI ASPEN Overpriced? Yes. Celebrity-strewn? Maybe. Still, LORI KNOWLES considers the whole and asks, how can you afford to not ski Aspen?

REGULARS

FIRST TRACKS Our editor-in-chief has his run BY IAIN MacMILLAN

SHORT TURNS News, gossip and everything in between.

SLOPE ANGLES Remembering Paul Green, the skier’s publisher. BY STEVEN THRENDYLE

CROSSHAIRS A skier’s gallery.

SKILL SCHOOL Start the season right with a refresher on basic balance and drills to help you get to know your new skis. BY NIGEL HARRISON

CAUGHT AND SHOT BY MATT POWER