Interactive Feature
Mt. Baker 2022-2023
View Feature The Jetstream does what the Jetstream does. I try not to subscribe to any pre-season ponderings when it comes to weather. Heck, I don’t trust a forecast more than 24 hours out, most of the time. Because we...
Travel
Eleven Experience
Cheers of "Winner! Winner!" erupted as I dipped into the fluffy goodness. As the celebratory sounds faded, I floated off in the cold smoke of mid-winter snow that had somehow arrived in late March. I smiled and thought to myself,...
Culture|Video and Photo Feature
Building Community at Sun Peaks Resort
“Hi, Mom!” Elli Terwiel calls out. Her mom, Anne, doesn’t see her. Anne’s too busy skiing. Fast. It’s readily apparent where Elli, a 2014 Sochi Olympian in Slalom, got her pedigree. Both Anne and Elli’s dad, George, are avid Masters...
Event
Coming Home: The Arc'teryx Backcountry Academy Connects with its Roots
As wind poured over the ridgeline of the Spearhead-Blackcomb Col, Julia Niles calmly stuffed skins into her backpack and admired the endless chain of peaks rising from the clouds. The longtime Whistler, BC guide unleashed an ear-splitting smiled while we...
Izzyisms
YOUNG KNEES
First published in issue 16.3 of The Ski Journal. I promise you the ski patrol at my home mountain is better than yours. It’s a realization I came to thanks to Mary Jane’s ski patrol tryout. My home mountain is...
Profile
Leighan Falley’s Great Heights
First published in issue 16.2 of The Ski Journal. From the passenger’s seat of Leighan Falley’s 1957 Piper Pacer, the granite peaks of the Alaska Range loom large. Buzzing past heavily crevassed glaciers, the bush plane cuts through the narrow...
Event
Mt. Baker Opening 2022
View Interactive Feature It’s been at least six months since many folks in northwest Washington took their last turns on snow, and while that sure seems like a long time ago, the hiatus makes it all the sweeter. The fickleness...
Video
'Yours Truly': Cole Richardson's Mid-Winter Love Letter
A good ski film delivers chills down the spine before the closing credits roll, but Yours Truly, the newest film from Arc’teryx and CK9 Studios, does it from the very first breath. A slow-mo crystalline snow explosion backlit by the...
Video
'YUP', New Sammy Carlson Film is the Reel Deal
Just when you thought ski movie season was winding down, half man, half human pogo stick Sammy Carlson decided it was time to relight the fire, dropping his newest film, "YUP", online this week for our viewing pleasure. From the...
Adventure
Few and Far
First published in issue 16.1 of The Ski Journal. Zigzagging along the eastern ridge of Store Kvittind in Norway’s Lofoten Islands, rock-hard granite and the Atlantic Ocean meet in abrupt beauty. It’s otherworldly and spectacular, cloaked in a vast white...
Video and Photo Feature
THIS IS THE MOTHERLOAD EPISODE 4
Before having kids, it’s easy to take for granted the amount of time available for skiing. In the fourth and final installment of the Arc’teryx web series, This is the Motherload, we see just how difficult it is making time...