Published October 22, 2007
SKI CANADA TEST 2008 - ALL MOUNTAIN CATEGORIES
SHORT TURNS The North Face's 'Men's Unity Suit'; The Banff Centre for the Arts; 'Ski Le Gap' Tremblant; BMW's MINI Colorado; Backcountry Lodges of BC; Prior skis
CATS OUT OF THE BAG
I ’d been itching to ski something really steep, and while a massive snowfall is usually the time to dial things back in the backcountry, our guide at Mystical Snowcat Paradise (MSP) was governed by the same impulse. We started out fairly steep, fairly treed and with snow fairly deep. For the rest of the day all that really changed were the adverbs preceding “steep, treed and deep”. On several descents I found myself in that singular combination of gradient and snow quality that fused one with gravity, not so much skiing as performing a sustained controlled fall in a breaking wave of snow, bringing earthbound man as close as he can come to a bird in fl ight. Our universe became a dimly lit, greyish world of old-growth forest—our guide, and God, knew where we were. by George Koch
HEADIN' SOUTH Get a jump on your ski season by wrapping up one in Portillo, Chile. by Iain MacMillan
THE SPIRIT OF NORQUAY Generations of Banff skiers have always been loyal to the hill in their own backyard. by Monica Andreef
KINDER SURPRISE
Taking the kids on an Austrian roadtrip for the first time was an adventure beyond expectations. by Iain MacMillan
GEAR & GADGETS featuring Olympus FE 190; Icebreaker Jetter; Bolle Anaconda; Rossignol Wengen; Mountain Hardwear Beryllium
IS IT ALL DOOM AND GLOOM? George Koch takes a different view on global warming - and it's not all downhill.
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