Articles by Turner.
We can confirm it isn't Boone.
Whether you know him by Tom, Tammy, Todd, or Jesus, it's been hard not to get at least a little caught up in the hype surrounding Tom Wallisch's new ski sponsor. And now it's official: T-Wall has signed with Line Skis. After parting ways with Scott earlier this...
We're stoked out to hear that Maude Raymond has signed on with Spy Optics. Easily one of the most recognizable and stylish female skiers in the game, we're pumped to know Maude getting further recognition from a major brand and we can't wait to see what comes out of this.
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Can you believe the hype?
After 24 hours of online speculation, Saga has officially welcomed another into the flock - and no, it isn't Tom Wallisch. This time McRae Williams, he of the two last names, is joining the ranks of the Saga family. The reigning X Games slopestyle silver medallist...
Latest JP AUCLAIR & ANDREAS FRANSSON Update, via Felix Rioux --
I'm sad to say there is now no chance of survival of our fallen friends. I've lost a good friend and an amazing inspiration. JP will leave a huge void in our lives. Peace and love to you JP
Words: Sam Turner, Photo: Orage
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Photos: Audric Gagnon, Renaud Robert, Jérémy Déragon, LP Labranche, Jamie Walter
It’s not the easiest thing to describe iF3. I don’t mean to sound like a dick saying that, I think it’s genuinely difficult to put together the mental footage of an entire weekend of exposure to skiing. There’s...
Photos: Jamie Walter
After a night off on Saturday, Phil and Henrik were on the move again on Sunday for the second stop of the Inspired Ski Movie Tour. The event was hosted at Montreal’s TRH Bar, and went off with a bang. Before guests started arriving, the guys took time to check out the...
Photos: Jamie Walter
Ski movies, once upon a time, weren’t available for preorder on iTunes. Nor were they always screened in fancy theatres with black tie dress codes and velvet seats. In an era I can’t claim to have been a part of, premiere season lasted two months between the start of school...
How do you know when you’re there? It’s a question to ask any skier trying to make it pro. You’re out here skiing all winter, all summer if you can. You get shifts covered, you take courses online. You rearrange your life in pursuit of the vague goal of getting there. But how do you know where...
They built the roof wrong, see?
There’s gaps in the roof. They fucked up over there.
Dom Laporte has been roofing for a number of years. It’s what he does to make enough money to ski in the summer. He’s got a seasoned eye for craftsmanship, good enough to spot a poorly built section of the...
Photos: Jamie Walter
Well that’s it, that’s all folks. Newschoolers Week at Windells 2014 is over, and despite the crushing post-camp blues, we couldn’t be more stoked on how things turned out. It was tough to say goodbye, and after the last of the high fives were slapped and the various cars...
Words: Sam Turner
Photos: Jamie Walter
I think my favourite part of these past two days was watching one very dedicated and very shirtless camper try for a backflip and end up somewhere in the vortex of tuck-for-double rotations. Or maybe it was watching Ethan Stone drop into the High Cascade...
Words: Sam Turner
Photos: Gill Montgomery and Erik Hoffman
Things got off to a rowdy start yesterday as Newschoolers and Windells welcomed 90 freeskiers of all ages to camp for a week of shredding and shenanigans. Inside the skate compound for orientation, things got rolling with highfives...
A day after GoodEnoughBGK dropped what is arguably the edit of the year; a raw-cut springtime dismantling of PCMR so chock-full of hammers you thought it was a goddamn carpentry class at your local community college, Superproof Inc. has leapt onto the scene with something else altogether...
Words: Sam Turner
Photos: Audric Gagnon and Felix Rioux
It's a sunny, slushy Saturday in Mont Tremblant, Quebec. The forecast says it's going to be 26 degrees on Monday. Spring is officially taking hold on the east coast, and you can feel that summer isn't far behind. But for one last weekend...
It’s finally over. We've survived the Olympics. It was a lot to take in, but we did it. We got through puppies and valentines and Miley Cyrus and pants that were “falling down”. Over the past ten days we did our best to bring you all the Olympic coverage we could - and some of it was flat-out...
We're stoked to announce the selections for the Newschoolers Journalism Program. These writers were chosen based on their skills, their stories, and the votes from the community. They will be invited to the NS Journalist Cult and from there we will start producing content. As a reminder, each...
What up!
In January we announced that we would be relaunching the Newschoolers Journalism Program. We put out the call for submissions from the community, and you guys (and girls) responded enthusiastically. We're super stoked on the work you put out, and we're closing in on the final...
The last thing I remember is seeing Jeff Schmuck. I thought it was kind of cool. Like damn, that’s Schmuck right there. Huh. Then I turned back to the double G&T that Mr. Bishop had placed in my hand, and everything goes black.
Apparently I later bowled my glass across the Embassy Suites...