Tag: Kicking Horse Mountain Resort
TAKE OFF… TO THE POWDER RUNWAY
/Reading Time: 8 minutesDrop Into Canadian Rockies International Airport For The Ideal Gateway To Big-Mountain Skiing Along B.C.’s Powder Highway
Read more »Hello BC! The Freeride World Tour Returns to Kicking Horse for another Wild Ride
/Reading Time: 4 minutesDominique Daher – FWT18 – Kicking Horse Get ready for big air, mind blowing tricks and spectacular runs. The 16th edition of the Freeride World Tour (FWT) hits B.C.’s Kicking […]
Read more »Dropping in at Kicking Horse
/Reading Time: 7 minutesAfter four days of unrelenting snowfall, three days of visibility-related delays and near-constant safety concerns, the sun returned to the skies above Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, revealing a deep, dazzling […]
Read more »RYAN REPORT – Canadians podium at only home stop on Freeride World Tour
Reading Time: 2 minutesLogan Pehota won and Kylie Sivell took the bronze at the Kicking Horse Mountain Resort stop on the Freeride World Tour. It was supposed to be the only North American […]
Read more »Still Flying High
Reading Time: 1 minuteBetween bespectacled British ski jumper Eddie the Eagle and the Jamaican bobsleigh team, the 1988 Winter Games in Calgary created some truly unlikely heroes. Michael Edwards (aka Eddie the Eagle) […]
Read more »RYAN REPORT – Freeride World Tour Returns to Canada
/Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor the first time Kicking Horse Mountain Resort will host a stop on the main event Freeride World Tour this winter. FWT made the announcement on Tuesday, rolling out a […]
Read more »Kicking Horse – Gentle Giant
/Reading Time: 5 minutesThe other side of Kicking Horse isn’t gnarly at all – and that suites some skiers just fine by Trent Edwards from Spring 2012 issue Since its rebirth 11 […]
Read more »Short Turns: Winter 2012 issue
/Reading Time: 3 minutes TEN YEARS STRONG ❖ Dave Irwin’s Dash for Cash becomes a 10 th annual this February 3-4 in Banff and Sunshine Village when the Dave Irwin Foundation for Brain Injury pushes […]
Read more »Golden Choices
/Reading Time: 9 minutesby George Koch from Winter 2011 issue For hardcore skiers, this B.C. town offers a tasty triple scoop of cat, heli and resort skiing My best skiing memories are of […]
Read more »Beyond the Ropes
/Reading Time: 9 minutesLast winter’s tragedy at Golden, where a Quebec couple disappeared off-piste at Kicking Horse, will have a lasting impact on search-and-rescue operations Whether it’s the macabre or the simplicity of […]
Read more »2010 Best of Skiing Awards
/Reading Time: 14 minutesEach year Ski Canada collects kudos and accolades from across the country about what makes us the best FIRST OFF THE MARK November 2, 2009. Recently beleaguered and now […]
Read more »Super 7
/Reading Time: 10 minutesAll epic descents take hold of our collective psyches – some become “classics” There are probably a thousand great off-piste runs in Western Canada. These are the runs that skiers […]
Read more »Golden Dreams
/Reading Time: 3 minutesAlert readers will recall my chronicling of the Kicking Horse story since it began as a glimmer in the eye of Vancouver skier-visionary Oberto Oberti. I was an instant convert […]
Read more »9 for the Road
/Reading Time: 13 minutesIt was the greatest run of a fabulous season. What appeared as a dusting of snow on the access road became eight cm in the parking lot and, as we […]
Read more »Two Resorts, Multi-Flavours
/Reading Time: 3 minutesNow that they’ve resolved their long-running battle as to who ranks second behind Whistler-Blackcomb for highest vertical drop in the country (Kicking Horse won), Panorama and Kicking Horse have little […]
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