If you want to ride safely over the Christmas holidays, you’ll need to do some work to get a handle on conditions and you’ll need to stay on top of things as the next cycle of stormy weather progresses. Read More →
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Backcountry Lodges Mistaya Lodge Visit their secluded tree-line lodge for all levels of hiking, skiing, [...] Read More Sol Mountain Touring Sol Mountain’s BC backcountry lodge is in the heart of the southern [...] Read More Valhalla Mountain Touring Valhalla Mountain Touring is located in the heart of the Selkirk [...] Read MoreLift Service Castle Mountain Castle Mountain. Over 3500 skiable acres. Two mountains. 78 trails. 8 [...] Read More Lake Louise Ski Area Spectacular scenery awaits at Lake Louise with uniquely beautiful terrain [...] Read More Mount Cain Situated on the north end of Vancouver Island, Mount Cain offers a unique [...] Read More Red Mountain Resort If downhill skiing or snowboarding on a mountain with epic terrain and [...] Read More |
 Featured Destinations Terrace, BC Nowhere else in Canada does the combination of varied terrain, abundance [...] Read More  Revelstoke, BC With an average annual snowfall of 12-18 metres (40-60 feet!), the [...] Read More Fernie, BC Powder. If there is one word that describes the reasons why people come to [...] Read MoreEditorials By Jon Turk Babushka (Grandmother) Daria Moolynaut was born in a reindeer skin tent on the tundra in northeast Siberia about 107 years ago, during the reign of Czar Nicholas II. Her father was a reindeer herder; her mother Read More →  Shames Mountain, the ‘little ski area that rocks’, tucked away near Terrace BC, is up for sale. The asking price? A cool $1.5 million. When locals were faced with loosing their ski area a community initiative was started. My Read More →  Rest in Powder is an independent snow film about a group of friends from the Kootenays. In the film they are skiing and snowboarding in their favorite zones, in the mountains, in powder. The film is a visual narrative Read More →  Understanding why, how and when avalanches are likely to occur is critical to keeping people safe in Canada’s mountains. Communicating safety tips and risk updates to skiers, snowboarders and snowmobilers is essential to saving lives. Dr. Bruce Jamieson, Natural Read More →  by Jon Turk Recently, I was asked to give a talk at the high school in Darby, Montana, at the epicenter of one of the most politically right wing, tea party activist populations in the United States. “Oh Boy,” Read More →  Mount Cain will be opening this Saturday December 10th. They have a 140cm mid mountain base with good early season conditions. The forecast looks like sun through the weekend so everyone can enjoy the opening day full moon after Read More →  The following backcountry avalanche burial and rescue happened in 2008 in Alaska and the story is told by Skippy. It is being reposted for all of us to be aware of the hazards of our passion. The first legit Read More →  What a great opening day at Revelstoke with super conditions and amazing weather! 45cm of fresh powder on top of a really good base made for a lot of smiles and positive vibes. Here is a POV video soon Read More →  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 →  Pure, simple & real..Deep Dec 3 & 4 Sneak-a-Peek Details So it is only 3 more sleeps until the first spinning of the lifts for the public for the 2011/12 season. The sneak-a-peek weekend is upon us! With the Read More →  This past year Island Lake Catskiing and Mica Heliskiing partnered with Sherpas Cinema to produce a T.V. show called The Balance of Powder. The Sherpas are a youthful group from Whistler with creativity and originality and are creating award-winning Read More → If your beloved ski hill ran out of money and had no choice but to close, what would you do? With time running out for majestic Shames Mountain in Northern BC, local skiers from Terrace, Prince Rupert, and Kitimat Read More →  Wayne Flann, Whistler Blackcomb ski patroler and paramedic, chose a great year to start a new avalanche blog service for Whistler. With over three meters of snow and many unstable layers in the snowpack, big avalanches have been common Read More →  Whistler’s own Mike Douglas spent last week living up at the top of Whistler Mountain and filing daily video dispatches chronicling the experience for a project called “Embedded: The Inside Story of Whistler Blackcomb.” This is the final installment; Read More → |
Snowcats Baldface Lodge With 32,000 acres Baldface has every type of terrain imaginable from [...] Read More Chatter Creek Cat-Skiing Chatter Creek is one of Western Canada’s largest and most [...] Read More Island Lake Catskiing For nearly 20 years Island Lake catskiing has consistently provided guests [...] Read MoreHeli Operators Bella Coola Helisports With over 2 million total acres of jaw-dropping terrain reserved for you [...] Read More Mica Heli Skiing 72,000 hectares (close to 178,000 acres) of towering peaks deep in the [...] Read More Northern Escape Heli Skiing Northern Escape Heli Skiing is located just South of the Alaska border, in [...] Read More |
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