Interview|Video
Meet Ski Chef
Owning an expensive camera doesn’t make you a filmer, just as buying a fancy knife doesn’t make you chef. Each is just a tool, and to lay claim to either title you have to learn to use them. Matt Cook...
Video Exclusive
It's Just Us
The Ski Journal is proud to present "It's Just Us," a video exclusive documenting Vancouver Island's Mount Cain Alpine Park, presented by 10 Barrel Brewing. Tucked deep in huge coastal mountains and run almost completely by volunteers, there are few...
Video and Photo Feature
Mt. Baker 2016-17 Recap
View Feature A December to remember. Then, a March miracle. Powder aplenty in between. La Niña delivered as promised during the 2016-17 season at Mt. Baker Ski Area. With an unprecedented cold snap before the holidays, we were treated to...
Yodel
An Issue of Priorities
It is Thursday night. My phone rings. It is Ian demanding I come over. I have an 8 a.m. test the next morning, and finals week is quickly approaching. But his roommate has white chocolate covered Oreos hidden in the...
Event
HELLA NOSTALGIC
View Feature The dream of the 90s is alive at Mt. Bachelor. Remember the 90s, those halcyon days of snowboarding’s youth, that movie Ski Patrol? Slick Willy was playing Sax on SNL, your Mom had those Lee jeans and there...
Video Exclusive
At Home with Lucas Wachs
Presented by Bend, OR has become an outdoor mecca in the last few years, but for lifetime-local Lucas Wachs it’s his hometown and home base. Having grown up plying the skate park-esque windlips and natural doubles of Mt. Bachelor, Wachs...
Photo Essay
Moe Knows Alaska
Moe knows powder. Tommy Moe, that is. The Olympic double medalist from Lillehammer in ‘94 has been on the powder prowl ever since he hung up his speed suit. And Moe knows Alaska. These days, Moe splits his time between...
Interview
Riding Shotgun with Chris Benchetler
Nearly 25 years ago, a portly, fictional motivational speaker named Matt Foley—R.I.P. Farley—made the phrase “living in a van down by the river” a cultural punchline. That same year, T.J. Burke and Dexter Rutecki’s van provided them little glamour as...
Travel
The Safest Country on Earth
ABOVE The underground metro system in Pyongyang is the deepest in the world, and for a reason: It’s also designed to be used as an underground bunker in case of attack. She is holding a microphone, big eyes staring straight...
Straight Line
A High-Alpine Shepherd
ABOVE •The Glacier des Bruyeres is one of those lines not in the guidebooks. Bonnetbleu at work on the steeps in the Parc des Ecrins, where he spent a winter exploring solo and where he has claimed numerous first descents....
Video Exclusive
Stoking the Fire
Presented by Over the past decade, few skiers have shaped the definition of style as much as Sammy Carlson, and his career has spanned from ski film stardom to X Games medals to big mountain lines in Alaska. In conjunction...
Profile
NOTHING SERIOUS
It’s hard to take anyone seriously when they’re wearing purple skinny jeans and ski boots. It’s even harder when they’re also making super G turns up a golf course, or juggling tennis balls while sliding a handrail in the Finnish...