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Managing Moral During the “Most Wonderful Time of the Year”
With ski and snowboard season running full tilt, your patrons are smiling, happy and rosy-cheeked as they ride your chairlifts, slide on your slopes, and enjoy apres-ski bevies and snacks at your food
VIDEO: Travis Rice’s Dream Line
Watch Travis Rice’s video game-like line in deep British Columbia powder, captured on his GoPro.
Heightened Awareness: How Mountain Resorts – and Guests – Can be Better Environmental Citizens
Minimizing the environmental impacts of a mountain resort is a balancing act. From chairlifts to snowmaking, waste management and night ski lights, challenges change based on season, local weather and climate.
Reunited In Banff
After being nearly inseparable during their university years, three friends embark on a ski trip to the Canadian Rockies to get reacquainted.
Start at The Beginning: A New Skier’s POV
It can be easy to forget what it’s like to start from the beginning when you’ve done something for so many years. Like skiing or snowboarding. Think you can never go back to the beginning? When you’re Gregg from Slopefillers, you find a way.
A Skier’s Guide to Facials
Sure, you might be proud of your “sweet” goggle tan, but your skin’s been through a lot this winter. May we suggest…a facial?
Soaring with Eddie The Eagle
Fans of ski racing had plenty to rejoice about at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. Alberto Tomba (ITA) and Vreni Schneider (SUI) were double gold medalists, and Frenchman Franck Piccard won the very first Olympic super-G event. But for the international media and millions watching on television, the real skiing action was over at Calgary Olympic Park, where British ski jumper Michael Edwards—nicknamed Eddie the Eagle flew into history (or flapped like a penguin) on a pair of 240 cm jumping skis borrowed from the Italian team.
Claire’s Fitness Tips: Midseason Pick-Me-Up
Here's one of my “go-to” workouts, allowing me to get my sweat on in my hotel room in only 7.5 minutes.
Building a New Future
Canmore entrepreneurs tackle the ski industry, one ski build at a time. These two Alberta-based ski industry entrepreneurs, who traded in their high-paying oil and gas jobs to enter the hand-crafted ski manufacturing business, are learning the ropes of an emerging trend of building and selling skis in an effort to improve ski technology and performance.
Covering the Angles: 8 Tips for POV Success
POV cameras are a great way to relive the best moments of your day and share your epic lines (or nasty crashes) with family and friends. But with every Todd, Rachael and Jerry capturing glorious pow runs, high-speed groomers and late-night hijinks with their helmet cams, how do you stand out?
Bon Appétit: A Skier’s Guide To Dining Out In Québec
As a lifelong skier, I've been conditioned to salivate at the sound of certain words. Like Pavlov’s mutt, I start drooling the moment someone even whispers, “powder day,” “first chair,” or, “first tracks.” Living here in Quebec, there are two other words that never fail to whet my whistle: “bon appétit”.