FREESKIER Magazine

Rule of Three

SPONSORED CONTENT ASSIGNMENT WITH BANFF TOURISM /// Beep. My beacon was transmitting and the clanky backcountry gate atop Sunshine Village had granted me access to the famed Delirium Dive zone, high in the Canadian Rockies. The snow was soft. The air was calm. Sharp peaks punctured the skies for kilometers and kilometers. I walked a short path to the summit and, with the utmost care, clicked into my bindings and slipped on my pole straps—mindful not to nervously drop any gear down the cornice that was teasing me just a few steps away…

The Skier’s Drinking Game

Of course, this is the game of choice at Retallack. It just makes sense. This isn’t the kind of place where everyone sits on the floor all night playing Monopoly with cups of hot cocoa. It’s the kind of place where everyone stays up late listening to rock-n-roll and drunkenly swinging around rock hammers in the name of skiing…

686 ‘Til Infinity

SPONSORED CONTENT ASSIGNMENT WITH 686 /// The email came in on October 12, 2016, from the elk-hunting, race-car-driving, mullet-wearing pro skier, Parker White. “686 is announcing me as their first skier in 24 years of business,” it read. “This is a big deal for their brand as well as myself and the ski industry in general that 686 is no longer only snowboard.” I sat back from my computer screen to comprehend the fact that one of the most successful snowboard clothing brands on Earth had just welcomed White, a skier, onto its esteemed contingent…

Green Mountain Movement

On January 28, 1932, a group of skiers huddled around a Ford Model T in Woodstock, Vermont, with no plans of driving anywhere. Its rear-right wheel was deliberately submerged in snow and tied down with chains, immobilizing the black beast. The rear-left, meanwhile, was propped up in the crisp winter air with a long, thick rope wrapped around it that ran up an adjacent hill…