After much deliberating, discussion and delight, The Ski Journal, in conjunction with Warren Miller, is proud to announce the top ten entries for our ‘First Time Ever on Skis’ contest. With hundreds of submissions ranging from 2010 to the 1940’s, from Norway to Dubai to Norcal, featuring tragedy and triumph, family, friends and strangers, uphill and downhill, poems, prose and even a few run-on sentences, suffice to say that they all brought smiles to our faces—and brought back our own personal memories of the purity of our first time sliding on snow.

Eight place: From the Womb.

After much deliberating, discussion and delight, The Ski Journal, in conjunction with Warren Miller, is proud to announce the top ten entries for our ‘First Time Ever on Skis’ contest...

Ninth Place: Skiing on the Healing Road.

After much deliberating, discussion and delight, The Ski Journal, in conjunction with Warren Miller, is proud to bring you the top ten entries for our ‘First Time Ever on Skis’ contest...

TSKJ contributors Garrett Grove and Sakeus Bankson recently got it good at Sorcerer Lodge in the BC interior. Hit play for proof from Garrett's perspective...

Deep winter can mean many things to many people. In Colorado it could conjure images of below zero temperatures and bluebird skies; out east, blower turns in the trees; and in the Pacific Northwest, deep winter usually means greybird skies, blowing snow and pillows for days. Such was the case in Whistler this weekend as six photographers had three days to put together a five minute slideshow in pursuit of $6,000 in oversized novelty checks at the Deep Winter Photo Challenge...

Red Mountai is a fun hill--judging by this video of Mike Hopkins and friends, they had a good opener...

Smith Optics has a private backcountry zone and a snowcat near their headquarters in Sun Valley, Idaho. Episodes 1-4 featured snowboarders in their exclusive playground--in episode 4.5, the skiers take over.