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Archive for January, 2011

KMC Editor Hosts Powder Video Awards

It was a real honour to be asked to host the 11th Annual Powder Magazine Video Awards in Aspen Colorado. As the world’s definitive skiing magazine, the PVA’s have become, in essence, the Academy Awards for the ski world. And as a long-time contributor and life-long fan of Powder Magazine, it was a total blast [...]

Winter 2010/11 – The Colour Issue

For those of you who haven’t had a chance to track down our spectacular winter issue, here’s a digital glimpse of the pages of our feature well, the Colour Issue. Sit back, relax and get, well, coloured, in a decidedly Kootenay kind of way. The real thing is almost gone, but you’ll always be able [...]

North Face Week at Baldface

KMC Editor Mitch Scott had the good fortune of shredding 4 of the best days of the year up at Baldface Lodge two weeks ago. Champagne bluebird morphed to mega coldsmoke pukage, and the pole cam caught it all. With rippers like DCP, Sage Cattabriga-Alosa, Dana Flahr and Ingrid Backstrom in attendance, some major shredding [...]

The View From Above

Riding shortly behind first chair on a sunny powder day has to be one of life’s finer vistas. The run holds on to it’s last moments of freshness before the tribe descends. Tearing it to bits, turning, rolling, frothing their way down. The spectacles offered in life can’t get much better. Can they?

Report from Revelstoke Mtn. Resort Freeskiing Competition

Photo ace, and regular KMC contributor Steve Ogle was at Revelstoke Moutain Resort last weekend, and has put this great show together for you all to enjoy. Rossland’s own Leah Evans took first place in the woman’s division, while Vermont’s Lars Chickering-Ayers took first in the men’s division. check it out!

The West Coast Sees Significant Dumpage

Over the last 24 hours, many BC ski resorts have been reporting significant accumulations over this last heavy snowfall. This morning Whistler mountain reported 24cm in 24 hrs. I spoke with Ski Journal Editor Mike Berard this afternoon who reported to have shredded Whistler Mountain under “Kootenay like” snow conditions, cold and light. Red Mountain [...]

Selkirk Wilderness Launches Wintervention

Meadow Creek’s Selkirk Wilderness Skiing just launched it’s Wintervention campaign, a hilarious pairing of powder and plight, created locally by Juicy Studios and staring Nelson-based actor (slash) budding actor, Scott Dickson. If you’re about to buy a fancy couch, think again good friend, it might be time to throwdown for some sweet turns at catskiing’s [...]