Something for everyone
From first time powder skiers to seasoned backcountry powder hounds, we
have it all: an average of 60 feet of virgin powder spread over 4,300
acres and five peaks, with double the snow Whistler Blackcomb receives.
When you come out into the backcountry you will get the goods. When you see the "Whistler Backcountry" stamp on the pictures you see in Transworld Snowboarding, Powder Magazine, and other magazines from around the world, you can almost guarantee it's shot at Powder Mountain Catskiing. We may
be only 20 minutes down the road from Whistler but we're in a different
snow belt. We get more more. Way more. Our powder is fresh, never farmed.
Tricouni
Tricouni is like a giant skatepark. The 60 feet of snow we get is scuplted by the wind and terrain into the most fun you can have in the trees and glades. The runs aren't super long but the skiing is amazing. The run length means you can charge the whole run and just as you are starting to feel the burn, there's the cat. Perfect if you are just getting into powder skiing or you have been "at the office" a bit too much instead of "at the hill". You can bag so many runs in a day that you won't believe how much skiing you get. The record is 15 runs in a day. Come break the record. We can't wait.
If Alaska doesn't look like your kind of thing because there are no trees, you'll love Tricouni, it's a tree skiing mecca.
Brew Ridge
New this year is our first runs on Brew Ridge. The road was cut by Terminal Forest Products for us to access it last winter. We put in a few exploratory days on it in 2008 but this is the winter we start hitting it more often. This winter, old growth trees, to an open face. Next summer if it is logged as planned, epic glades to open faces.
Tricouni North Shore
Mecca has many faces. The north face of Tricouni has great runs through the trees
with an average vertical of 1200 to 2200 feet. Old growth and gladed
new growth forests make for great runs. Little and Big Kahuna Bowls may change your life and make you move here. 2200 vert where you can just open it up and clock untracked turn after untracked turn. When it's dumping and "The Peak" and "7th
Heaven" are closed, all the heliskiing companies are not flying and
everyone else is stuck in Whistler Village waiting to get the goods, book a seat. We'll
take you to not just the good stuff, we'll take you to the "real good
stuff". Check the maps and start planning your first turns.
Faster Access
This fall we decided as much as we love sitting in the cat, we love making tracks in untracked snow more. So we fixed the original road out of The Big Kahuna and made it straighter, smoother and wider. Now with our new Pisten Bully 300's we will be able to get more runs in on the North Shore. The changes in 2007 saved about 10 minutes on the lap. Now with the short cut we put in this summer and the better road we should be 25 minutes quicker from the lodge to the skiing. While we were there, we cut a bunch of new lines into the Little Kahuna Bowl area so there are lots of fresh lines to be had this winter. Who knows maybe the run will get named on your trip. It happened to the Los Badicales last year.
Cypress
Cypress is our epic high alpine skiing. Great runs ranging from 1500 to
3800 vertical feet with everything you could imagine: open faces with
the perfect pitch for first timers, tree runs with perfect spacing
through massive old growth, glades that will leave you howling with
stoke, epic chutes, banks and features to jump off, not to mention the
breathtaking view. With Whistler Blackcomb to the north, Black Tusk to
the east and Mount Fee to the northwest, you are surrounded by a
panorama of huge BC mountains. When it snows at Powder Mountain Catskiing it snows hardest in Cypress. We've had to cut through 70 foot drifts sometimes to get the road back in. Cypress
gets easily double the snow Whistler Blackcomb receives in a storm.
When the weather allows us into the Cypress area it’s a day you’ll
never forget with untracked snow that never ends.
Faster Access
Our good friend George and his crew at Terminal Forest Products massaged almost the entire road in to Cypress during the fall of 2007. Cutting back alder trees, smoothing out low points and bridging the big holes and cutting an entire new road almost the entire way through the trees to get to Cypress. This fall they cleaned up the last part through the trees so we should be even quicker to the skiing. With our new Pisten Bully 300 snowcats that have 100 more horsepower than our previous Bombardiers, the drive in is about 25 minutes quicker than it was in '06 and ten minutes quicker than '07. Thanks George. Logging Feeds My Shred.