When Édouard Therriault drops in, everyone stops what they’re doing to watch what’s about to go down. Ed’s unique “swerve” style, combined with his deep bag of tricks, has put him on everyone’s radar as a top...
By: Chris Dane German and Matthew McEnery
If freeskiing had a Hall of Fame, Phil Belanger would be one of its first inductees. His skiing career spanned nearly two decades, and the video segments...
By Gavin Kratz
Although I never allocated funds to travelling during my formative years, I always told myself the first place I would go would be Hokkaido. A bucket list ski trip that...
I watched my first Freeride World Tour (FWT) event in 2013 from the confines of a dilapidated dormitory room in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The weather on the maritime coast at the time was borderline apocalyptic. Heavy rain...
In Niseko, Japan, powder days don’t begin in the mountains—they start under the fluorescent glow of a 7/Eleven. For Evan McEachran, Aaron Blunck, and Jonathan Rollins (JR), Niseko wasn’t just a dream destination—it was the perfect location...
By Chris Dane German
The dream of cat-skiing in Northern BC was calling, but an unexpected complication threatened to derail the adventure. Almost two meters of snow had fallen...