Northern Escape Heli-Skiing, located in BC’s remote Northwest, has long been renowned for providing the deepest, most reliable, snowpack on the planet and as we know, all that deep fluffy stuff doesn’t fall from blue skies… It Snows up there and it’s reliable.

With all that snow comes some inevitability difficult flying conditions. To keep you [...]

Most skiers can barely survive the off-season down time, waiting for next winter’s first snow to fall. Watching old ski movies on loop… beach-lounging with race boots on… or running up and down stairs to stay fit. Luckily there’s a better remedy for those in the know, it starts with an ‘S’, and ends with [...]

I expected the snow to be white and untracked and it was. It was the other white tracks that were a complete surprise.
On the first afternoon of our heli-ski trip we encountered high avalanche and poor flying conditions and were grounded at the lodge. Not to sit on our asses, we located fishing [...]

Hello Skiers,
I would like to sincerely thank the many friends, colleagues and guests that wrote to express your concern for us here in Chile since our very powerful earthquake. We greatly appreciate your friendship and your expressions of empathy.
I can inform you that, over all, Chile is doing well and is actually a country [...]

As I drove through a seemingly endless thick fog layer on Hwy 3 I reminisced my many powder days in Fernie and wished for good fortune on my current adventure. These memories helped justify driving past the many ski operations between the Coast and Fernie. They included the all-mighty Whistler, the interiors many [...]

Mica Heliskiing has announced the opening of another 3700 acres (1500 hectares) of new ski terrain within their 250,000 acre operating area.
Mica Heliskiing’s 2010 guests will have the opportunity to make first-descents in some of the best tree skiing on the planet! “Mica Heliskiing is very excited to provide this season’s guests with a number [...]

Is bigger always better? Investors pouring a billion dollars into B.C.’s Revelstoke Mountain Resort think so. One writer explores what just might become the continent’s largest ski resort and answers the question on everyone’s mind: Go now or wait it out?
The mountain finally breaks me. Some 5,620 vertical feet after I disembark the highest chairlift [...]

My trip to Terrace was more than getting together with my ski buddy, Owen. It was a celebration of his surviving a 19 minute avalanche burial under a meter of snow in Chile followed by a quadruple bypass heart surgery the day after skiing powder at Island Lake Lodge. This happened all in a [...]

Wildhorse Catskiing is snowcat powder skiing based in the famous Powder Triangle of Southern British Columbia. One mountain, 12 skiers equals perfect powder paradise!
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When it snows in Whistler, it snows even harder at Powder Mountain Catskiing. We traditionally get 40% more snow in a storm cycle than Whistler Blackcomb. That means if you want to ski or ride powder on your trip to Whistler, you want to come skiing with us.
The anticipation starts when you meet up with [...]