By kingco on January 25, 2009
Posted in Alberta | Tagged Cold Lake
By kingco on January 25, 2009
Nitehawk is a jewel in the Peace Country area that is about to get even better. It’s hard to believe that Nitehawk Recreation Area is run as a non-profit. Nitehawk Recreation Area has being in existence since 1960 and run by a board of directors, a dedicated team of volunteers and a hard working crew [...]
Posted in Alberta | Tagged grande prairie
By kingco on January 25, 2009
Kimberley Alpine Resort is part of the Purcell Range of the Canadian Rockies, located just minutes from the city of Kimberley. Kimberley is a German influenced city, and you’ll find plenty of gingerbread style architecture, accordions and Canada’s largest cuckoo clock amidst 1800 acres of terrain, 80 named runs and glades and an average [...]
Posted in British Columbia | Tagged 2009 IPC Alpine Skiing NorAm Cup, accordian competition, alpine skiing, Bavarian City of the Rockies, Black Forest, Canada's largest cuckoo clock, Canadian Rockies, cross-country skiing, german, glades, glading, Kimberley Alpine Training Center, Kootenays, longest lit trails, off-piste, paralympics, resorts of the Canadian Rockies, Rockies, sun vacations
By kingco on January 25, 2009
Being a little less touristy than Banff, Jasper’s Marmot Basin is a ski destination that won’t disappoint. It is part of Jasper National Park and skiers enjoy all that comes with the Park including the incredible scenery. Only 20 minutes from the town of Jasper, Marmot Basin offers 3,000 vertical feet of skiing [...]
Posted in Alberta | Tagged Athabasca range, Athabasca Valley, Canadian Rocky Mountains, Jasper, Jasper National Park, off-piste, off-piste adventure, Rockies, Rogers Terrain Park, unpatrolled terrain, woodland caribou
By kingco on January 25, 2009
Posted in Austria | Tagged arlberg
By kingco on January 25, 2009
Uniquely laid out on the Niagara Escarpment, Blue Mountain offers Ontario skiers the big mountain experience. With more than 3 dozen ski and snowboarding runs, Blue Mountain will meet your every expectation. There are 15 lifts including 9 aerial and 5 magic carpets. About one half of the hills cater [...]
Posted in Ontario | Tagged collingwood, escarpment country, georgian bay, intrawest, Niagara Escarpment, pedestrian village
By kingco on January 25, 2009
The skiing just doesn’t get any better than what you’ll find at the legendary Lake Louise, a world class resort in the historic Banff National Park. The scenery is magnificient and the terrain is enormous and varied. You’ll find 139 named runs over 4200 skiable acres on four mountain faces with unlimited [...]
Posted in Alberta | Tagged 50 world cups, Banff National Park, beginner, birthplace of canadian skiing, birthplace of skiing, high speed chair lifts, intermediate and expert runs from every chairlift, Jeff Patterson, Powder Bowls, Unesco World Heritage Site, unlimited off-piste adventure
By kingco on January 25, 2009
At Apex Mountain resort you’ll find about 600 cm of dry “Okanagan” powder, awesome terrain, a 2000 ft vertical drop and friendly people, all only about 30 minutes drive from Penticton, BC. Apex Mountain is perfectly located to benefit from huge precipitation, but low humidity. Some might consider Apex to be small, at [...]
Posted in British Columbia | Tagged Apex, Apex Mountain Resort, Crooked Park, low humidity combined with high precipitation, Mt. Beaconsfield, National Training Center for Aerials and Moguls, Okanagan, Okanagan Powder, Okanagan Valley, Penticton, southerly Okanagan valley, The Orage
By kingco on January 25, 2009
Your first impression of Silver Star Mountain Resort will be of brightly coloured Victorian architecture and storefronts with a boarded sidewalk in a faux mining village, but don’t stop there! Silver Star has an annual snow fall of 700 cm of that great Okanagan champagne powder, spread over undulating terrain, crazy hardcore chutes and [...]
Posted in British Columbia | Tagged aerial training site, bc, British Columbia, champagne powder, cross-country skiing, extreme skiing, most distinctive resort in North America, NATC, Okanagan, Okanagan Powder, Okanagan Valley, powder, Putnam Creek, silver star, Silver Woods, silverstar, silverstar Mountain resort, snow sport academy, Spirit Bowl, Telus Adventure Centre