For the next decade, we spent the winters largely on the road, skiing in Montana, Utah, Alaska, Kyrgyzstan, and places like that. Then one day, we came to Fernie.
Read more Twenty Five Years skiing Fernie Powder
The Powder Alliance has added Castle Mountain Resort to its list of participating resorts for the 2018-2019 winter season.
Read more Powder Alliance adds Castle Mountain
Without surprise this years 10 Meter Snowfall Club is comprised of a small group of BC ski-hills that have a bad-ass reputation for delivering the best powder skiing on the planet!
Read more The 10 Meter Snowfall Club
It’s a far cry from the small trailer I parked in the Sun Valley parking lot during the winter of 1947. Our little trailer cost a whopping $200.
Read more Winter Camping “Warren Miller” Style
Early December can deliver the best powder skiing of the season. The shortest days of the year keep the powder the driest.
Read more Top Early Season Powder Resorts
What impresses me with this story is local ownership. The skiers and boarders own Castle Mountain, could it be any better!
Read more Powder Alert for Castle Mountain
The Grizzly Mountain Couloir is a another classic couloir descent in Rogers Pass. The couloir can be viewed from the highway just before pulling into the Rogers Pass centre on your way from Revelstoke. Access from the Rogers Pass Centre is up the Connaught Drainage to Grizzly Shoulder for a safe climb up the ridge …
Read more Grizzly Mountain Couloir
Okay, if you are not fortunate enough to live in a ski area, what criteria do you look for when surfing the web, trying to pick a resort to vacation in?
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Powder Canada’s Christmas message for all you backcountry enthusiasts is be careful out there! On December 23rd we skied to the Thunder Meadows Cabin in the Lizard Range, Fernie BC. The cabin is owned and operated by the Fernie Trails & Ski Touring Club who also operates the Tunnel Creek cabin. The skiing was very …
Read more Be Careful out there!
The earlier in the season one gets to shred, the tastier and more rewarding each floating turn is.
Read more September POWDER!
With two fatalities in Western Canada over the weekend and very large avalanches happening in the region, it looks like we have reached a climax or turning point in the story of our winter
Read more Beauty is only skin deep
On Christmas Eve, there was an interesting avalanche that occurred on Mount Fernie just outside Fernie BC.
Read more Mount Fernie Avalanche Discussion
