Avalanche Canada: Shallow Snowpack, Deep Avalanches
The 2023-24 season has started very dry with an unusually shallow snowpack.
Read more Avalanche Canada: Shallow Snowpack, Deep Avalanches
Freerider Mark Abma
Pemberton, BC based freerider Mark Abma sure makes powder skiing look epic edited with the tune “got us looking so crazy right now“! Fellow big-mountain skier Xander Guldman also recently proclaimed Abma to be the ski world’s version of Beyoncé, and somehow, the comparison makes total sense. Just like Queen Bey’s peerless vocal lines, Abma’s …
Read more Freerider Mark Abma
Garibaldi At Squamish in Receivership
The planned $3.5B Garibaldi At Squamish ski resort project is to be sold under receivership.
Read more Garibaldi At Squamish in Receivership
Avalanche Canada reports a complicated snowpack…
Avalanche Canada reports a complicated snowpack in some areas depending on where you are adventuring in the backcountry
Read more Avalanche Canada reports a complicated snowpack…
Ian McIntosh – Big Mountain Skier
This BC Coast Mountain line called "The Blue Wall" had been ridden before, but Big Mac's approach was confident and hard charging.
Read more Ian McIntosh – Big Mountain Skier
Powder Mountain to Offer Private Skiing
To stay independent and uncrowded, we needed to change, and we didn’t want to join the successful but crowded multi-resort pass model or sell to a conglomerate.
Read more Powder Mountain to Offer Private Skiing
Legends In The Making: Alex Armstrong
Meet Alex “Army” Armstrong, she's a big mountain skier from Ontario.
Read more Legends In The Making: Alex Armstrong
Weak Layers – A New Ski Comedy
After getting evicted, three party-loving best friends set out to win a ski-movie competition
Read more Weak Layers – A New Ski Comedy
Pandemic Heli Ski Shutdown Doubled Range of Caribou
Studies by University of British Columbia Okanogan Campus (UBCO) have shown that the Pandemic Heli Ski Shutdown doubled the range of caribou. During the 2020 “anthropause,” when COVID-19 travel restrictions nearly grounded heli-skiing, both movement and mean home-range of the caribou groups increased dramatically compared to years when normal heli ski operations dominated. The anthropause …
Read more Pandemic Heli Ski Shutdown Doubled Range of Caribou
Northern Escape Voted World’s Best Heli Skiing
Voters at the 12th Annual 'World Ski Awards' have spoken and for a second year in a row, Northern Escape Heliskiing has been voted World's Best Heliskiing Operation.
Read more Northern Escape Voted World’s Best Heli Skiing
More Powder and Less Crowds
If your eyeing the untracked powder beyond the resort boundary, but not sure how to transition to the backcountry safely and responsibly, the Alpine Club of Canada's entry level ski and splitboard course is designed for you.
Read more More Powder and Less Crowds
A Low-Impact Ski Lodge
Is there such a thing as a low-impact ski lodge? Valhalla Mountain Touring owner Jasmin Caton is doing her best to make it a reality. Like everyone right now, Jasmin Caton is waiting for the snow to fall. There are already 40 centimetres on the slopes around her ski lodge in British Columbia’s Selkirk Mountains, …
Read more A Low-Impact Ski Lodge
