Off-Piste ON
Slashing backcountry powder in Ontario is a hard-fought but rewarding way of life. In this multi-part feature, we talk to the shredders, scope out the gear and explore the techniques and terrain.
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Cover More Terrain: Rossignol XP 100 Positrack Nordic Skis
As a backcountry skier in Ontario (and occasionally in Quebec and Vermont) I like to keep my terrain options open. I don't want to meet any terrain I can't tackle, whether it's flat and deep, treed and steep, or just plain gnarly.
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Friday Flick: “Fairly Mellow” at Fairy Meadow Hut
"Fairly Mellow" is as much about adapting to Mother Nature and finding diamonds in the rough as it is about sick lines.
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ML Blue Mountains Winter-Spring ’23 Issue Out Now
In this issue we carve thick slices of Ontario backcountry, revist the powder highway with kids, wake up and smell the psilocybin, explore some true Eastern alpine, paint the many moods of Georgian Bay and much more.
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Gear Shed: MEC’s New Couloir Collection
MEC throws some love to one of their most iconic lines ever, with a new-and-improved-but-still-old-school-jump-turn-awesome Couloir Collection.
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A Tetrad of Self-Propelled Exploration
Four wild places with uncommonly comfortable digs. Written by Leslie Anthony. An excerpt from the current Mountain Life Annual. MALLARD MOUNTAIN LODGE A new kid on the backcountry block,…
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BACKCOUNTRY CHAOS? Naturally.
by Leslie Anthony The backcountry, say many in Whistler, is an over-crowded disaster, descending into chaos. Is there a problem there? Not unless you consider a renaissance in design, materials…
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When the Going Gets Weird…
by Leslie Anthony In what was likely one of his more lucid moments, gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson famously stated that “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”…
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