Reading Time: 4 minutes Does a day’s skiing in Switzerland burn enough calories to offset that rosti? We put Bernard, our trusty volunteer, on the case to investigate. Warning: the scene around the cake trolley isn’t pretty. One of the great pleasures of a ski trip, especially one to Europe, is indulging in those calorie laden foodstuffs which make life worth living: rosti, fondue, pasta, pizza, deluxe burgers, roast meats, roast vegetables. I, for one, would eat a towel if it were roasted. So what about those foods that weigh heavily on the hips yet lightly on the soul? If I ski every day ..read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Lengths: 165, 172, 179, 186 Dimensions: 132-90-114 @ 179 Radius:  18m @ 179 Best for: Athletic, advanced-to-expert skiers for charging around the whole mountain. Compare with: Atomic Maverick 88 Ti, Fischer Ranger 90, Völkl Kendo 88  Think of the Evolve as the Mafia. Trust it and you will cash in, but screw up and it will punish you. “This is a responsive turner that performs well all around the mountain,” said Zak Norman. “But you can’t ski lazy!”  Complex construction may play a role. The core is a mix of bamboo and poplar woods divided into four ..read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes After a deadly accident last January, here are 5 tips for staying out of slides while in-bounds. On January 10th there was an avalanche fatality inside the ski area boundary at Palisades Tahoe Ski Resort in California. This month, another in-bounds slide partially buried a skier at Lee Canyon Resort in Nevada. The two incidents have raised questions about whether skiers should carry avalanche gear while skiing at the resort–even if they don’t plan to head into the backcountry. It’s important to remember that in-bounds avalanche accidents are extremely rare. The last ..read more

Reading Time: 4 minutes Artificial intelligence is making news, but can it do the important things? Human Adam Bisby faces off against the “first-ever AI ski trip planner” in planning a family adventure to B.C. My initial reaction verged on confrontational when Wertu CEO Matan Noti informed me that the online travel startup had recently launched a ski trip planner powered by ChatGBT, to “help ski travellers build their dream trip in minutes instead of hours.” Whenever I hear about a new use for OpenAI‘s seemingly ubiquitous applications–composing music, generating artwork, writing Ski Canad ..read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Lengths: 170, 176, 180, 188 Dimensions: 132-95-120 @ 182 Radius:  18m @ 180 Best for: A deeper snow zone quiver of one. Compare with: Nordica Enforcer 94, Atomic Maverick 95Ti, Faction Dancer 2.0  Just another Stöckli love affair. The Swiss masters know how to make a great ski—and it at least partially comes down to money. Regardless, Stöckli refreshed the Stormrider 95 this year with new geometry, construction and mount points. The basics remain the same: a wood core ski with a partial sheet of Titanal and rocker in the tip and tail. The design performe ..read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Lengths: 164, 171, 178, 185 Dimensions: 123-94-112 @ 178 Radius:  16m @ 178 Best for: Park lovers who don’t want to sacrifice all-mountain performance. Compare with: Paradise Aloha Park, Head Oblivion 94, Völkl Revolt 95  This might be the best deal in the ski test. The Chronic is designed for the demands of the terrain park with a shape that’s at home everywhere on the hill. For the park, it’s a twintip with a mirrored flex pattern in front and behind the boot, which makes it easier to ski switch. Plus it’s built tough for the inevitable abuse inflicted ..read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes A SPRING SKI SAFARI ALTA BADIA, ITALY — I have a picture-perfect view of the Italian Dolomites, the Ütia Bioch alpine ski hut and an outdoor table lined with the region’s best wines. Nearby is Andrè Senoner, 2022’s top sommelier in Italy. I’m here in Alta Badia for De dl Vin, the closing event of A Taste of Skiing, a season-long, on-mountain celebration of the Sud Tirol / Trentino Alto Adige region’s food and wine.  It’s true, today isn’t perfect weather. Yesterday was warm and sunny—spring skiing at its finest. Today the air is crisp with chilly breezes. But th ..read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes April’s Whistler Ski and Snowboard Festival makes it the best time to visit It may be April, but there was nothing marginal about skiing Whistler this week. The 15cm of dry powder that fell recently was still soft winter snow on northern aspects, the groomers were fast and grippy, and the temperature hovered just below freezing. Only three things gave away the spring date: the total lack of crowds (the longest lift line was two minutes), the creamy corn that appeared around lunchtime on south faces, and the pervasive thrum of the season’s biggest party, known as the ..read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes This week we look forward to a cosmic phenomenon, recognize world-beating Canadian racers, scan the old-fashioned future of lift lines, anticipate summer in the mountains and are reminded that eastern snowpacks can still be deadly. TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE RESORT We’ve all had ski days to remember, days when it felt like heavenly bodies have lined up just right to create something special. Skiers in Quebec’s Eastern Townships will enjoy that feeling on April 8, but it won’t be a metaphor. The resorts will be on the dark side of the moon during the upcoming solar eclip ..read more

Reading Time: 4 minutes Skiers Kajsa Larsson and Celeste Pomerantz in Suspended in Space, a surrealistic ski flick filmed in the Yukon. This week in spring skiing news: Alterra goes all-in with Canadian-made electric snowmobiles, Sun Peaks offers 50 percent off to season pass holders of other ski areas anywhere in the world, Vail Resorts report lower participation so far this season, and a new global study predicts a significant drop in natural snow cover by 2100. Plus, The New Yorker chimes in with a cover illustration that says it all about the warm ski season of 2024. SNOWMOBILES GO ..read more