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 a great many questions. First, why does everybody pronounce it with a French accent? It’s...

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...