Category: Destinations

Whistler Implements Guest Height Restriction

Whistler Blackcomb has instituted a new height restriction for all skiers and riders due to the area’s prodigious, record-breaking snowfall this season. The policy is intended to prevent guests from drowning in the bottomless pow. To that end, the resort is prohibiting guests shorter than 350cm/11.5 feet tall, the current snow base, from accessing Whistler …
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Northern Escape Heli Skiing Launches SnowCats!

Northern Escape Heli-Skiing launched their back up snowcat population this weekend with great success. Late last summer NEH purchased two snowcats and worked hard all fall to open their long-awaited snowcat area. The work included clearing trails, building roads and an operations hut at the base of the area. “The skiable acreage is larger that …
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