Cover photo by Phil Best (courtesy of Whitewater Ski Resort) This four-day celebration of alpine and backcountry ski and snowboard culture in the Kootenays takes place both on the slopes at Whitewater Ski Resort and in nearby Nelson, BC. Participants can take part in clinics, competitions, gear demos, and arts, cultural and social gatherings, like […]
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Cover photo courtesy of Bri Loveall Your local Toyota dealers have lined up another year of free skiing and snowboarding for Toyota drivers with this season’s Toyota Free Ski Friday events at resorts around the region (check out the schedule and official sweepstakes rules at Toyotafreeski.com). New this year to spread the love of free
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Wheel Sport Bicycles Is the Exclusive SNO-GO Rental Center for Silver Mountain Resort and 49 Degrees North Resort Put some WOW in your winter with a new way to ride the slopes this season! SNO-GO ski bikes, also known as ski bikes or snow bikes, mimic the motions of advanced skiers but are easy as riding
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It’s never too late no matter how old you are and there’s no better time than now to learn to ski or snowboard. Two of our writers went out on their own paths this season in pursuit of doing just that, and, in the process, gained insight and experience into the cult of snow-sliding fanatics.
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By Ammi Midstokke Cover photo courtesy Ammi Midstokke Not everyone feels the same about risk. It’s a subjective assessment, nuanced by things like how many kids you still have to feed and who will see you shit yourself if things go wrong. Our party of three was not in agreement about how we got here.
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By T. Ghezzi (Nonfiction, 2024) “The Darkest White” is written by New York Times bestselling author Eric Blehm. The book is an in-depth, well-researched, and unbiased story of the legendary Pacific Northwest snowboarder Craig Kelly’s extraordinary life and his premature death. Devastating and controversial, on January 20, 2003, the Durran Glacier avalanche in the northern
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Enter to win a SNEVA snowboard, lift tickets, mountain town lodging, ski and snowboard gear, and other epic prizes! Inland Northwest Toyota Dealers have lined up another year of FREE skiing & snowboarding for Toyota drivers at local resorts, & this year along with Out There Outdoors they are spreading the free skiing love to
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By Claire Thompson Cover photo courtesy Xander Demetrios Nordic skiing has always felt to me like the best winter version of hiking or trail running—human-powered ways of moving through nature that combine physical challenge with space for meditative stillness. If you’re visiting Leavenworth on a winter weekend, stillness is something you might need. For all
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By Derrick Knowles Cover photo courtesy of Tele Colo Over the years skiing on telemark gear, I’ve encountered a few slogans from tele skiing’s zenith, some of them on faded stickers plastered to Subarus and others repeated by lifties with a Jeff Spicoli-esque cackle in the lift line as I approached: “Free your heel, ski
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The deities of snow and winter around the world go deeper than you might think. By Brad Northrup Cover photo courtesy Shallan Knowles Throughout the course of human history, civilizations from around the globe have worshipped the change of seasons, and, as such, created gods and goddesses to direct their prayer towards. For those of us
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