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Girl's Powder Trip of a Lifetime

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Experience a girls’ ski trip of a lifetime! Leave the boys behind and join our two day and two night, all girl Catskiing tour on March 29-31. This is a chance to treat yourself, make friends, relax, re-energize and Read More →

Travis Rice at Baldface

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Travis Rice has enjoyed his share of powder and here can be seen making his fair share of powder turns at Baldface Lodge. Rice has filmed outstanding video parts year after year, producing jaw-dropping shots like his switch 540 Read More →

Island Lake Catskiing Surprise Opening Dec. 3rd

Island Lake Catskiing

The thursday morning email was brief, call to reserve before 1PM. I quickly called and booked myself and Rocky, a friend visiting from Comox, for Saturdays opening of Island Lake Catskiing. The plan was one cat with no frills Read More →

Small Group Catskiing at Big Red Cats

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Small Group Catskiing is now available at Big Red Cats. They still will have their standard cats running groups of 12 but now will offer a cat that will take two smaller groups of 5-7 skiers at a time. Yes, the Read More →

Chatter about Chatter Creek

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Chatter Creek crossed my radar almost a decade ago. Tales of snowcat skiing unlike any other were circulating among my ski friends. Snowcat skiing on steroids was the description that most resonated with my powder addiction. My excuse for Read More →

Monashee Snow Cats - Best Season Ever!

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“Wow …is all we can say about this season, we’ll be talking about it in our dotage (next year!)”, say Tom and Carolyn Morgan, owners of Monashee Snow Cats. This has been quite the season – they can only Read More →

BC is the mecca for powder

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There are two types of skier: those who can afford to heli-ski, and those who can’t. Granted, there may be a third category for those who simply don’t want to heli-ski, but they are few and far between. Indeed, Read More →

Northern Escape Buys Two Snowcats

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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 Read More →