Whistler Ski Blog

“No one drives 400 miles through the middle of the night to make fresh tracks on Mt. Ordinary. Welcome to the Extraordinary. “ – www.squaw.com More like, welcome to the Extra … Read More

Today Blackcomb was skied. Mid mountain was in a heavy shroud of fog. The valley was quite moist. The highest lifts like Glacier and Crystal however, experienced fairly clear skiing … Read More

Well its been pretty grim snowpack-wise both here and up at the Butte, but Tom Runcie is never short on stoke for us.  He is a Crested Butte ripper and FWT … Read More

Here is some Contour footage from an MSP trip to Chatter Creek, B.C. with Mark Abma, James Heim, and Leo Ahrens. Clearly, the snow was deep, bottomless perhaps. This kind … Read More

Words and Photos from Taylor Martin With big winter swell hitting the coast and the pacific faucet temporarily turned off we had grand plans to hit up a few point … Read More

-by Lindsay Butler If you don’t have a GoPro you know someone who does. BUT if, on the very off chance, you have no idea what a GoPro is then … Read More

I had the pleasure of trying a couple of the current offerings in air bags over the last two years and was impressed by their design. Well, at least the … Read More

Yep. Another top ten. And this time we’ve asked around a little and actually done some real research and here is what we’ve come up with. The best places to … Read More

Whistler and Mike Douglas’ Switchback Entertainment throw a stick in the cog of the ol’ time/space continuum. They slow down the fast and speed up the slow. If only all of … Read More

By: Adam Hartley Going away really does change people. Three friends and I came from the UK to Whistler in December and upon encountering the first of our fellow countrymen … Read More

-By Leo Ahrens I recently went on a trip with the Dubsatch Collective crew to Girdwwod, Alaska to camp and ski in some classic big mountains zones. I had to … Read More

When low tide hit in the Western United States in January most people just skied less and complained more. Powder Mag cover boy/ Line skier Colter Hinchliffe, K2 athleteLexi DuPont, … Read More

When are we going to get some f*cking SNOW!!! That’s what I want to know. And what’s the snowpack like? Who gives a shit? I ain’t skiing on it. And … Read More

When most think of heli skiing they imagine perfect snow and blue sky. But that’s not always the case, sometimes you get one or none of the two part equation. During … Read More

Josh Dueck, the inspirational B.C. skier who became  the first person to perform a backflip on snow in a sit ski earlier this month, appeared on Ellen this morning. In 2004 … Read More

Whistler is a bustling mini-city. There is endless skiing on the mountains and around them, there is even more shredability beyond that. The night-life is well beyond that of a … Read More

Skiers are creatures of habit. We all have our rituals before heading out. When I was sixteen years old, my ritual on any day, whether there was a foot of … Read More

Okay friends, the final and unofficially last “busy” weekend of the 2011/2012 ski season is upon us. For many of you reading this, the winter is only half way done. … Read More

You can only eat so many Gangster Wraps or Ramen packets. Sometimes you need to come down from a hard day of skiing/boarding and eat a fully-loaded hot dog. Now … Read More

When the skiing is the shits, and believe me, it is right now, I usually get to thinking about questions that plague me. And one of those questions is what … Read More

By: Lindsay Butler If you’ve spent any amount of time in the Whistler Blackcomb area, chances are you’ve seen countless bears roaming around and/or sacrificed a sandwich to feed the … Read More

Have you seen MTV Cribs? Well, this is Unofficial Whistler’s version of the ballin’ T.V. series. Like everyone living in Whistler, we are pretty certain that our life rocks. So, … Read More

Surface Skis, the 92nd greatest thing in the world according to GQ magazine, is kicking off their Canadian Demo Tour tomorrow (Feb.11) in Whistler, B.C. If the name doesn’t tell … Read More

This video, #1 Skier Dad, is a fine example of mountain rage. On a perfect sunny day up on Blackcomb mountain, some of the FT crew were faced with a … Read More

Whistler is once again experiencing a roller-coaster of temperatures and depressing winter weather. The December woes are back, but this didn’t discourage some oriental-inspired filming in the burt trees of Blackcomb. … Read More

5 months in 5 of the best ski locales on Earth during the months where each one matters most. Most snow freaks have to work and save money all summer, … Read More