Ania Boniecka

Winter season 2018/2019 will go down in the books. I set out a goal this year, to make up for all the skiing we have missed out on all these years

You don’t just pencil it into your calendar and do it on the way as you are running other errands, you have to put aside an entire day, or days, lug around the equipment and then squeeze every second of your time on the mountain. At the beginning of the year we dreamed up a big road trip down the West Coast to hit as many ski resorts as we could, it was an ambitious plan but not counting the day we got completely snowed out… in California (! ) One reason was we were finishing the drive at night, with low visibility, ice and semis on the road and second was because we took a couple stops along the way to admire the landscape (did you know that the majority of the taller mountains in Oregon are volcanos? ! ). It is only a 20 min drive to Mt. Bachelor, it has giant rooms with fireplaces (a must feature on any ski vacation) and big mud rooms to dry off your gear after a full day of powder.

you will want to replicate [your experience at Mount Engadine] all over again, and then bring your friends, your family and your loved ones along for the rideBig surprise, we are still in love with winter and we have been living in the mountains for the last two months just taking every moment of it in. The snow in the cities is beautiful for a few days and then it just gets muddy and gross

So much so that when we were first invited to come to England to preview these pieces against the backdrop of the incredible British countryside I was excited to finally reach for some of my finest plaid. The garments themselves provide excellent protection from the cold, in true Canada Goose style of course (as if we were expecting anything different) with the perfect tailored silhouette, and were the perfect outerwear on our trip to Sussex where we visited the Seven Sisters cliffs, not to mention perfect for those occasions when you are looking for something more formal but don’t want to sacrifice warmth and comfort, which surprisingly is a lot more often than you may think. It’s been a dream of mine to see those green rolling hills, low profile homes that give you the feeling of being in The Lord of The Rings, but I never really knew where to even begin planning that trip. We were invited by Henry Poole to come and visit their shop on Saville Row in central London, another British legacy.