FORECAST ISSUE 8.3 PREVIEW
Now that the lifts are spinning and ski season is officially underway, it’s time for a look at the third and final issue of Volume 8 of Forecast.
Now that the lifts are spinning and ski season is officially underway, it’s time for a look at the third and final issue of Volume 8 of Forecast.
At the dawn of 2022, Fischer, longtime purveyors of some of the most trusted and high-performance skis on the market, announced the...
Now that the tap has turned on for winter, and snow is beginning to blanket the hills, it’s a perfect time to...
When one looks back on the history of skiing, and which brands have played a pivotal role in making the sport what...
Now that summer is in the rearview mirror, and as good ol’ Ned Stark loved to growl, winter is coming, we’re excited...
Words & Photo by Ben Girardi This season at Cerro Catedral in Argentina was unlike any I’ve experienced in the past. A...
Words by Kevin Hjertaas | Photos by Bruno Long Contradiction, they say, is the key to humour. Perhaps that’s why Rob Heule,...
Words by Matt Coté There was a time when skiing was different. Not just the actual turns, but the people making them....
I still remember the first time I rode a chairlift. Following a few years of honing my skills on Red Mountain Resort’s...
Words by Leslie Anthony Here’s the thing: while high-speed groomers are fun, dropping couloirs is rad and bouncing down pillow lines divine,...
Now that the lifts are turning and the Holidays are on the horizon, we’re excited to preview the third and final issue...
Now that the weather has turned and the first coat of white has dusted them hills, it’s time for a look at...
If the name Cole Richardson doesn’t ring a bell, you might want to cover your ears once it does. Originally from Canmore,...
Now that the heat waves of summer are behind us, it’s time to start thinking about winter, so we’re excited to announce...
Words by Jeff Schmuck “The concept of being connected to something is what fuels me to be invested in protecting it,” responds...
Words by Matt Coté When I was a kid, my dad was the general manager of a small, weekend-only ski hill in...
Words & photo by Kari Medig I was crammed into a secondhand ’70s-era gondola, inching into the headache-inducing altitudes only found in...
Words by Donny O’Neill The alarm blares urgently, springing me out of bed and into a clumsy hunt to silence my phone....
Words by Dani Baker As a freeskier whose style juxtaposes grace with aggression, aspiring guide who’s palpable bond with the mountains speaks...
Words by Matt Coté | Photos by Steve Shannon In the distance, the sun sets on the Gold Range in its namesake...
Words by Donny O’Neill Like spiritual guardians, they’re elusive, yet omnipresent in the mountains. They often reveal themselves just when they’re needed,...
Earlier this winter, the incomparable Sam Kuch teamed up with ski filmmaking maestro Blair Richmond to put together a highly unique edit...
Review by Matt Coté After 15 years of skiing on pins in the backcountry, I’m calling it: Dynafit’s new Superlite 150 is...
Words by Donny O’Neill The saying goes that if you’re single in a ski town, and don’t know how to pole whack,...
Words by Steve Shannon Before the glamour of high-speed chairlifts, ski-in ski-out accommodation and the mega resort, skiing was a simple community...
We’re excited to announce that Issue 6.3 of Forecast has arrived in ski shops across Canada just in time for Christmas. For...
This year marks Elan Skis’ 75th anniversary, and the storied ski brand certainly has a lot to celebrate. Over the last three-quarters...
Snow has started falling, and the lifts are about to start turning, so it’s time for a look for a look at...
In case you missed the big news at the dawn of this year, as part of their Ride Free campaign, our friends...
It’s that time of year again. The weather is cooling, the leaves are turning, and the excitement is rising. Winter is right...
Words by Matt Coté | Photos by Bruno Long AS JULIAN STODDART SLASHES slashes a waist-deep turn against the backdrop of the...
Words by Andres Valencia A cameraman aimed at me from the left, while my coach invigorated me from the right. “Remember you’re...
Words by Leslie Anthony Johnny “Foon” Chilton hunches over a surfboard in a cavernous warehouse in Pemberton, British Columbia. Just back from...
Words by Mark Abma Although a geodesic dome has a futuristic look, similar to that of a space station on Mars, it...
Did you ever play Seven Minutes in Heaven when you were a teenager? Where a random boy and girl get seven uninterrupted...
Words by Ilanna Barkusky Since the revelation gondola first began turning 12 years ago, Revelstoke Mountain Resort has emerged as an ample...
In the midst of these peculiar times, one of the photographers we work most closely with, Bryan “Ralphie” Ralph, opted to take...
Words by Matt Coté | Photos by Bruno Long As he drives his skis through a mix of settled pow and thin...
It’s one of those perfect days. The forecast is calling for pow, so you go to bed early, and get up at...
Words by Ryan Flett I first met Jonathan Rollins four years ago, on my first day working at Red Mountain Resort as...
Words by Ilanna Barkusky On any given day, each summer, on the Horstman Glacier high atop Blackcomb Mountain in Whistler, the freeskiing...
Rob “Bert” Heule is a bit of renaissance man. Known primarily for his highly unique and stylish skill set while sliding downhill...
Growing up within a family of avid skiers in Oakville, Ontario, skiing was programmed into Evan McEachran’s DNA. Whether it was spending...
“Those are the real people,” he tells me, as a mother and daughter depart from his care, with the daughter’s feet freshly...
Ski straps have come a long way over the years. Once upon a time they were clumsy Velcro things you needed three...
Having kids costs ski days. It’s a tough reality that skier parents have to face. It hits the pregnant skier hardest at...
WORDS BY MIKE BERARD | PHOTOS BY ANATOLE TUZLAK Joy sits at the centre of our ski experience. Sure, getting upside down...
Tales of untracked lift-accessed terrain with little-to-no lineups are often unheard of nowadays. The epic pow day at a resort, bottomless and...
Blizzard Skis is a brand that evokes many questions. First, why does everybody pronounce it with a French accent? It’s Austrian. Also,...
It’s an age-old cliché to say that all good things must come to an end. But in the psyche of Level 1...
There’s a line at the beginning of Matchstick Productions’ new movie, Return To Send’er, that encapsulates the skyrocketing rise to stardom of...
Now that the lifts are turning, it’s time for a look at the third and final issue of the fifth volume of...
Raised in Rossland, British Columbia, which he still calls home, 30-year-old Dane Tudor has been a consistent force in the world of...
With some welcomed snow beginning to blanket them thar hills, and ski movies premieres galore getting you stoked for the season, it’s...
Mark Abma has become one of freeskiing’s foremost voices and veterans. Since erupting onto the scene in 2003, the Pemberton, British Columbia-based...
Now that summer vacation has come to a close, us old timers are slaving away at work and you youngsters are back...
In a world of one-trick ponies, Ian Morrison is a rare thoroughbred in today’s era. The 27-year-old good-natured Whistler, British Columbia native’s...
The term meteoric rise tends to get thrown around frequently in the internet age, but Jake Carney’s ascent is not one to...
“The best part about a camera is that it allows you to meet people,” says photographer Steve Shannon, “because everyone has a...
A vehicle defines you. It’s your mode of moving in the world, part of your identity, a depreciating investment, and so much...
And god said to skiers, “Thou shalt encase thy feet in plastic casts that impede the normal anatomical function of those body...
We’re the only skiers on a two-kilometre-long T-bar. It’s about noon on Boxing Day and people are only now starting to arrive...
This story starts with a volcano. Or maybe one story ends there and another begins. Or maybe it’s just that a volcano,...
“Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels,” was Kate Moss’s motto in 2009. Blame her smoker’s deadened palate for the rationale, but...
Peeling off the ground after driving a long, lonely logging road to the middle of nowhere, a group of eager friends shrank...
It’s cold and dark at 6:45 a.m. in December at Island Lake Lodge as I head out with our lead guide, Greg...
Every year, the ski industry brings us new innovations. Resorts switch their snowcats to biodiesel, backcountry huts get solar panels and LED...
Skiing is a family affair, whether you’re related to the people you’re skiing with or not. In my case, I was lucky...
A cacophony fills the streets as cowbells ring and people cheer. Not exactly the type of sounds you’d expect to hear on...
“What’s the best day of skiing you’ve ever had?” It’s a question that skiers of all ages are often asked, and a...
Taking on initiatives most people would find impossible has always motivated Greg Hill. The 43-year-old Sutton, Quebec, transplant made a name for...
Throughout the history of ski media, there’s been a time-honoured tradition of talking about how much fun it is to ski with...
I first met Flame McNeill on an early winter, snowmobile-accessed hut trip, deep in the Purcell Mountains, south of Parson, British Columbia....
Last week, for the fourth year in a row, Oakley Week went down on the slopes of the consistently ranked #1 ski...
In case you’ve yet to score yourself a copy, we wanted to take the time to encourage you to do so by...
Grab a beer gear nerds… Now that we’re caught up on sleep and our voices have returned after emerging from late last...
We’re excited to announce that our friends at K2 have just launched an all-new line of skis, the Mindbender, and to celebrate,...
Our friends at Elan and the legendary Glen Plake know a thing or two about looking good while having good times. After...
Outdoor Retailer + Snow Show, the biggest trade show in North America for the winter sports industry, is set to take place...
In 2007, alarmed by the number of ski resorts closing due to lack of snow, and noticing a need for a non-profit...
With the Holidays just around the corner, it’s high time for a look at our third issue of Volume 4 of Forecast,...
Kindred, a new film produced by Revelstoke locals Zoya and Izzy Lynch, is the story of a family’s unlikely journey to becoming...
It’s starting to smell like winter, so we’re proud to preview the second issue of the fourth volume of Forecast, which will...
Oakley has released the latest chapter in its One Obsession campaign, focusing on the brand’s world class snow athletes. From photoshoots and...
We all have those friends, you know the ones that take everything to the next level, and when your home begs for...
Now that you’ve packed up your board shorts and flip-flops and your kids are back to the books, it’s time for that...
If you’re in Vancouver and don’t know your way around, everyone will tell you, “The mountains are always north.” They’re the city’s...
My alarm goes off, I hit the snooze button, and ask myself, “Why did I let Reuben [Krabbe] talk me into this?”...
Ullr might be the god of snow, but he isn’t the only being worshipped in ski towns—pet dogs come a close second....
The latest and greatest installment of Oakley Week recently wrapped up in Whistler, B.C., and like each and every year, good times...
The first time I met Carter McMillan, he was 18 years old, standing in a bitter, windy start gate at the top...
The first time I met Jasmin Caton was on a peak in British Columbia’s snowy Kootenay region, where I had recently hung...
As skiers, we collect our most electric and treasured memories in the mountains. And when we reflect back on these moments, ones...
Looking to keep yourself bone dry and toasty warm for the remainder of the winter? Good, because for one of our final...
I squint my eyes as my Toyota Tacoma’s headlights make an effort to illuminate the road in this early December blizzard. Breaking...
In February of 1988, one man changed the rules of winning and losing in a way that had not been seen since...
On February 9th, 2018, the 23rd Winter Olympics will begin in Pyeongchang, South Korea. While the biggest sporting spectacle on the planet...
If there’s one thing that’s frustrating about skiing, aside from ski boots that don’t fit and bone-chilling weather, it’s lift lines. We...
There is a group of people out there whom Shane McConkey once called “the best skiers in the world,” but its members...
The recently rechristened Outdoor Retailer + Snow Show (formerly known as the SIA Snow Show, prior to their monumental merger with the...
They said that all good things must come to an end, so it’s time to unveil the fourth and final issue of...
Bobby Brown has done it all. Over the course of the past nine years, he’s won four X Games gold medals, delivered...
One of the main ingredients of any sure-fire ski and snowboard movie is travel. Due to the ever-present danger of climate change,...
If you’re looking for concrete evidence that ex-racers make the best big mountain skiers, then consider Christina Lustenberger as Exhibit A. Raised...
Now that winter has arrived, it’s time for a preview of the third issue of Volume 3 of Canada’s purest ski magazine,...
“A kick in the head.” That’s what they called the cordoned-off, fall-line strip down the centre of Whitewater’s showpiece run, The Blast....
For time immemorial, forecasting the weather was simple. Fluffy clouds meant you could hunt mammoths all day with the sun to your...
Once in a blue moon, a flourishing freeskier emerges from the forest with a homegrown tale to tell. And while 22-year-old Jarrad...
The next time I hear some salty, old dog complain about Millennials and how self-centred, lazy and uninterested they are in working...
Overcoming the odds can be daunting for some, or an enthusiastic learning experience for others. Just ask Simon d’Artois. After circling the...
For our first issue of the third volume of Forecast, Dave Treadway asked us if he could pen an essay on risk,...
Adventure Not War is the story of three U.S. veterans traveling back into the mountains of Iraq on a mission to heal...
One hundred and fifty years ago, following 28 years of pitching and political gerrymandering, 36 gentlemen—sporting their best sideburns, bowties and tweed...
In each and every issue of Forecast, we partner with one of the many fine brands that supports us to offer you...
Now that there’s snow in them hills, it’s high time to unveil a sneak peek at the second issue of the third...
From the Canadian Rockies, for Canada’s 150th year, introducing Look Up, a film presented by Ski Big 3 & Sherpas Cinema as...
Anna Segal is a woman of many hats. She’s a veteran professional skier, X Games champion, Olympian, co-producer of Finding The Line...
Photo by Darcy Bacha John Spriggs, a well-known professional freeskier for the past decade, is on the road to redemption. After...
Well, it’s that time of year again. After spending last winter scouring the slopes for the best stories we could find, and...
While coaching at Momentum Ski Camps in Whistler, James “Woodsy” Woods stopped by the Low Pressure Podcast studio to chat about...
Emerald Expositions, LLC (“Emerald Expositions”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Emerald Expositions Events, Inc. (NYSE: EEX), producer of Outdoor Retailer and...
Photos by Eric Lamothe Recently, the crew from Today’s Parks teamed up with The North Face, Red Bull Canada, Prinoth Snowgroomers and...
On the latest episode of The Powell Movement’s weekly podcast, Canadian Olympian and Seeking Nirvana star Matt Margetts takes three questions from...
On the latest episode of the Low Pressure Podcast, Chris Logan (aka C-Lo, aka Dahrk) discusses his stellar siblings (Olympic silver medalist...
On the latest episode of The Powell Movement’s weekly podcast, this week’s guest/victim, pro skier and reality TV star Colston VB, takes...
On the latest episode of The Powell Movement’s weekly podcast, Pep Fujas, one of the most iconic freeskiers to ever slide down...
On the latest episode of the Low Pressure Podcast, pro freeskier and mountain biker KC Deane tells Mark Warner how he eventually...
Following its first two years in Riksgränsen, Sweden, the JP Memorial is coming to Whistler. The third annual event, which will coincide...
“The concept for this video was showing three full, consecutive or back-to-back runs, all filmed in roughly an hour one morning. The...
Run Logan Pehota – Fieberbrunn FWT17 – Swatch… by FreerideWorldTourTV Logan Pehota recently continued his reign of terror on the Freeride World...
On the latest episode of The Powell Movement’s weekly podcast, one of the pioneers of women’s freeskiing, Kristi Leskinen, fields three inappropriate...
On the latest episode of The Low Pressure Podcast, Alexi Godbout sits down with Mark Warner to spill the beans on a...
Over the course of the past week, from February 22nd through the 26th, Oakley Week was held in Whistler Blackcomb. After making...
In honour of Oakley Week kicking off today at Whistler Blackcomb, we’re pleased to present our latest contest, with Sean Pettit and...
WORDS & PHOTOS COURTESY OF DANE TUDOR Last spring, Ian Macintosh invited Griffin Post and I to join him on a camping...
On the latest episode of The Powell Movement’s weekly podcast, skiing superwoman Elyse Saugstad fields three inappropriate questions from host Mike Powell,...
On a recent episode of the Low Pressure Podcast, Mark Warner sat down with Khai Krepala during SIA in Denver, just after...
Words: Matt Coté Blizzard Skis knows how to rock. It might not be the first thing you’d think about the Austrian brand...
Rory Bushfield has a million stories. That’s because he’s had about a million adventures. Bushy lives his life the way most of...
It’s time for our third and final update on the SIA Snow Show in Denver, Colorado. In the event that you missed...
In the event you were WiFi-less in a remote region of Rwanda, or chose skiing over couch surfing, then you probably saw...
Gear nerds unite, as it’s time for our second of three product previews (click here if you missed the first one) from...
Now that the smoke has cleared and dust has settled from a week’s worth of early mornings and late nights at the...
Listen to one of the more inappropriate people we know, Virtika Outerwear Founder Dave Lesh, answer three inappropriate questions on the latest...
On the latest episode of the Low Pressure Podcast, big mountain skier Josh Daiek talks about growing up in the skiing mecca...
After tinkering and toiling on the sophomore volume of Forecast since last summer, we’re exceptionally excited to bestow a bittersweet preview of...
“The fun loving Kaj Zackrisson was recently in Whistler for the yearly Salomon Mountain Collective gathering. Between meetings that will shape the...
On the latest episode of The Powell Movement’s weekly podcast, one of the pioneers of urban skiing, Canada’s very own Frank Raymond,...
On the latest episode of The Powell Movement’s weekly podcast, this week’s guest, “Crazy” Karl Fostvedt, takes three inappropriate questions from last...
On the latest episode of the Low Pressure Podcast, Mark Warner chats up the masterminds behind Sherpas Cinema, Dave Mossop and Leo...
Rossignol sure has come a long way over the years. From humble French roots, originally choosing the coq as their symbol, they’ve...
On the latest episode of The Powell Movement’s weekly podcast, The Godfather of Freeskiing, Mike Douglas, asks Clayton Vila three painful questions....
In March, 2016, during a Peak Performance photo shoot with Henrik Windstedt, Matilda Rapaport and Dave Treadway at Stellar Heli Skiing, B.C....
“This episode with Jordan Manley has been a long time in the making. We originally planned to connect in Season 1 but...
On the latest episode of The Powell Movement’s weekly podcast, Rachael Burks, aka the life of the party, answers three inappropriate questions...
Now that winter is in full swing, we’re revved up to reveal the cover of Issue 2.3 of Forecast, which consists of...
On the latest episode of Low Pressure Podcast, the founder of 4FRNT Skis, Matt Sterbenz, spills his guts on a variety of...
Mike Douglas (aka The Godfather of Freeskiing) is one of the most appropriate people we know, so we couldn’t have been happier...
Season 4 of Mark Warner’s Low Pressure Podcast has begun, with one of our favourite mountain men, Chris Rubens, scoring the latest...
Fuel the fire for winter with this video recap of Whistler Blackcomb’s Opening Day Celebration by The North Face, who hosted...
On the latest episode of Mike Powell’s weekly podcast under The Powell Movement, legendary ski filmmaker Greg Stump talks drugs and duct...
On the latest episode of Mike Powell’s weekly podcast under The Powell Movement, last week’s guest, the iconic Glen Plake, calls out...
In the latest episode of Mike Powell’s weekly podcast under The Powell Movement, Sammy Carlson asks freeskiing’s most legendary icon, Glen Plake,...
“BE Inspired” is a two-year project by professional skiers Phil Casabon, Henrik Harlaut and movie director Eric Iberg. Follow Phil and Henrik...
Photo by Bryan Ralph In the world of freeskiing, there are countless individuals who have made waves throughout their long or still...
Letting it all hang out in Zermatt, Switzerland. Photo by Sami Ortlieb Like Frank Sinatra, Rob “Bert” Heule does it his way....
In the latest episode of Mike Powell’s weekly podcast under The Powell Movement, last week’s guest, Kent Kreitler, asks Sammy Carlson three...
Skiing legend Tanner Hall is back with his long-awaited film, “Ring The Alarm”. For the last two years, Tanner and his friends...
In the latest episode of Mike Powell’s podcast under The Powell Movement, last week’s guest, Michelle Parker, asks the legendary Kent Kreitler...
Mike Powell has dropped the latest hilarious episode of his podcast under The Powell Movement, where last week’s guest, Chris Benchetler, asks...
Since Mother Nature is dropping snow in them hills, it’s time for us to drop a preview of Issue 2.2 of Forecast…...
On the heels of us debuting one of two new podcasts from Mike Powell’s The Powell Movement last week, we’re excited to...
The man, the myth, the legend, Mike Powell, has recently launched a duo of podcasts under The Powell Movement. The longer and...
Evan McEachran coaches Momentum campers on how to karate chop. Photo by Meghan LaHatte If you look up “Mr. Nice Guy” on...
Hot on the heels of our preview of Issue 2.1, we’re excited to announce some additional big news: Matt Coté has joined...
Since it’s getting to be “that time of year again”, we’re proud to present the cover of Issue 1 of Volume 2...
Words & photos by Tom Winter Los Penitentes is small. A collection of hotels and condos and restaurants on the side of...
Ecclesiastes teaches us that there is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens. For the past...
The West Coast Session (WCS) has returned to the slopes of Mount Hood, Oregon for its tenth anniversary of celebrating skiing. A...
At this point in our Intersection behind-the-scenes series, you’ve probably come to realize that the weather presented each of the teams with...
Dropping in 3, 2, 1… Photo: Travis Persaud “Dude, maybe this is the ticket to doing motowhips on skis,” jokes Dylan Siggers,...
“Skiing up Whistler first,” Sean Logan texts me. “Headed Lot 8 to park now.” With an end destination in mind, I plot...
In conjunction with the World Ski & Snowboard Festival (WSSF) in Whistler, B.C., our brothers from another mother at King Snow, and...
The Swatch Freeride World Tour wrapped Monday’s Haines, Alaska event under bluebird skies and with prime conditions. In what now comes as...
Matt Margetts gets acquainted with his new view. Seeking Nirvana is something to write home about. If I were to write such...
A video posted by Forecast Ski Magazine (@forecastski) on Feb 24, 2016 at 2:21pm PST Simon D’Artois is one of the flyest...
Logan Pehota has burst onto the Swatch Freeride World Tour this winter, with a fourth place finish in Vallnord, Andorra and a...
The Almost, issue 1.3. WHEN WE OPENED Reuben Krabbe’s photo submission from his trip to Saskatchewan with writer Leah Schietel for the...
Issue Three coverboy Joffrey Pollet-Villard. Photo: Maxime Ramoul They say three times is a charm, so we’re pleased to present the cover...
Illustration by Ralph Damman Skiers can be a bit pea-brained when it comes to international travel. Let’s consider Japan as an example,...
If you’ve enjoyed previous Inflik projects like Doorstep Project, you’ll notice a fresh new flavour with the company’s latest offering, The Unseen....
Editors’ Note: This piece has been republished in anticipation of the Snowman premiere in Toronto on Wednesday December 2, 2015. For tickets, visit Eventbrite. ...
Win our contest and you too could become this strapping and handsome. Photo: Will Wissman Dane Tudor does it all. As one...
Picking a cover photo is hard. Sometimes everything in the shot is right: the lighting, the terrain, the trick and the composition,...
Freshtival, Canada’s longest-running freeski film festival, threw down in Cow Town, Alberta (aka Calgary) for its 12th triumphant time last weekend. WELCOME...
Because Conquering the Useless is showing tonight at the Revelstoke Performing Arts Centre, we figured it was high time to share with...
Words: Travis Persaud It’s movie season, which means that everyone is talking about the new hotness—like Jesus. H. Christ, did that guy...
Words: Travis Persaud | Photos courtesy of iF3 iF3 Montreal took the stage this weekend, which means that the first issue of...
With the inaugural issue of Forecast primed and ready to makes its debut today at the International Freeski Film Festival (iF3) in...
We officially joined the Internet this morning, which is a big deal. After about a month of tinkering around on the backend of...
When it comes to dealing with endemic ski media, it’s a well-known fact that most pro skiers aren’t as savvy as the...