{"id":15942,"date":"2016-08-22T14:39:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T20:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kickinghorseresort.com\/?p=15942"},"modified":"2016-08-22T15:29:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T21:29:35","slug":"road-adventure-b-cs-powder-highway-delivers-first-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kickinghorseresort.com\/blog\/road-adventure-b-cs-powder-highway-delivers-first-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Road to Adventure \u2026B.C\u2019s Powder Highway Delivers First Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"

On B.C\u2019s aptly-named Powder Highway,<\/strong><\/em> lifetime memories are created from epic moments that might only last a few seconds. Moments like that epic face shot at Fernie or Kicking Horse, when the snow fell like puffy diamonds from the sky and where your body was on auto-pilot, screaming straight down the fall line ais if guided by an invisible hand. Up and down, up and down. You\u2019ve heard the clich\u00e9s before\u2014about needing a snorkel to breathe, and now you\u2019re burrowing through a tunnel of white, crouching down to extend the fantasy for just a few seconds longer.<\/p>\n

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Tunnel of white at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort<\/p><\/div>\n

That, in a brief paragraph, is what the B.C Powder Highway experience offers. The Powder Highway \u2013 originally a marketing vehicle cooked up by Chris Elder of Fernie Alpine Resort<\/a> and Dave Nicholls of nearby Island Lake Catskiing \u2013 is a woven fabric of main roads, backroads, and sideroads in southeastern B.C that encompasses everything from deluxe cat-skiing operations to under the radar local ski hills to prestigious alpine touring lodges for skiers with big heart, lungs, and quads.<\/p>\n

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Start your exploration by flying into Cranbrook\u2019s Canadian Rockies International Airport (YXC). Pile your baggage and gear into an SUV or well-equipped rental car for the short drive to Kimberley Alpine Resort<\/a>, less than twenty minutes from the airport.\u00a0 It\u2019s the perfect resort to get your ski legs under, with challenging glades, steep bump runs, and mellow cruisers.<\/p>\n

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Groomed cruiser at Kimberley Alpine Resort<\/p><\/div>\n

Next, pack up and set your GPS coordinates for the powder-famous Fernie Alpine Resort<\/a>. Here, the Lizard Range\u2014the storm-battered alpine ridge above town that resembles a lizard\u2019s back\u2014catches over 11 metres (37 feet) of snow annually from passing storms. Similar to Colorado ski towns like Telluride or Crested Butte, the historic red-brick town of Fernie is an authentic Canadian winter sports town.<\/p>\n

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Legendary Lizard Range at Fernie Alpine Resort<\/p><\/div>\n

Further adventure awaits farther north at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort just west of the Continental Divide near Golden, B.C. Monster bowls, jaw-dropping steeps, endless cruisers, and the best mountain scenery in North America from the deck of the Eagle\u2019s Eye restaurant await. Kicking Horse is a massive playground that offers big vertical, consistent steeps, and a terrific range of ski in and ski out options right up at the resort.<\/p>\n

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Monster terrain at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort<\/p><\/div>\n

And those are just the lift-serviced resorts. Add in 13 cat ops, 9 heli ski companies, and a mind-boggling 21 backcountry lodges and you have likely the greatest concentration of powder options anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n

Words: Steven Threndyle<\/em>
\n Photos: Brandon Hartwig, Brad Lorriman, Abbydell Photography, Love Street Media, Ant<\/em>oine Caron Cabana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On B.C\u2019s aptly-named Powder Highway, lifetime memories are created from epic moments that might only last a few seconds. Moments like that epic face shot at Fernie or Kicking Horse, when the snow fell like puffy diamonds from the sky and where your body was on auto-pilot, screaming straight down the fall line ais if<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":15951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[80,105,122,79,76,73,121,134,109,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kickinghorseresort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kickinghorseresort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kickinghorseresort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kickinghorseresort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kickinghorseresort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kickinghorseresort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kickinghorseresort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kickinghorseresort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kickinghorseresort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kickinghorseresort.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}