It’s hard for a skier to watch the source of their addiction get pulverized by the strengthened rays of the springtime sunshine. The slidepaths running down to the highway are debris-littered shadows of their mid-winter selves. When white...

Big Mountain competitions generally work like this. The venues get progressively harder as the days go by and, ideally anyway, the finals will see the best skiers shredding in the gnarliest terrain. As if to prove that the judges at the...

Over 100 competitors (including 26 ladies) stepped to the Big Mountain venue on Polar Peak at Fernie Alpine Resort today. The chutes had seen a healthy dose of sun and wind in the last little while and the prospect of a firm venue had...

Anyone who’s grown up skiing at Lake Louise has always had a close eye on the sustained pitch of rock and snow looker’s right of the Paradise lift. Daydreaming about the area’s potential is a great way to pass time on the creeping triple...

In classic rocky mountain fashion, the visibility today shifted from perfect to shit...seemingly every 17 minutes or so. Nonetheless, the skiers that qualified yesterday showed that there are an infinite number of available lines on ER-3....

Mother Nature pitched in today to help save the backs and knees of the competitors at Lake Louise’s Big Mountain Challenge. After three weeks of cock-hard conditions, a sneaky 15 centimetres and some wind morphed the Lake back into shape....

If you're starting to scheme in your mind about where you might find yourself in the spring, a trip to the big mountain mecca of Alaska may not be as impossible as you think. You don't need loads of cash to scare yourself in the Chugach...

Today will be the eighth time this date has passed with a solemn significance attached to it. Last year, when I posted something to commemorate the untimely deaths of four good friends, I made a mistake—I thought it was only the six-year...