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From lapping Sunshine Village’s exhilarating Delirium Dive to crossing the street with an ungulate, SkiBig3 writer Jillian Tester has come up with eight unique experiences while Spring skiing at Banff Lake Louise.
What a difference a day makes. The cliché spins through my head as we plough over Rogers Pass. Having left the comforts of the Fairmont Banff Springs and the sun over Lake Louise, we’re headed west on Highway 1 (the TCH) to snowed-in Revelstoke.
Continuing with their short video series this season, Lake Louise profiled some of the women on their Avalanche Control and Ski Patrol teams. They tell us what it’s like to be a woman in the mountain profession and share their advice to other girls looking to do the same.
With the longest non-glaciated ski season in North America, the ski resorts of Banff National Park run operations through until the May long weekend, May 23rd! Here are five top reasons to ski Banff & Lake Louise this spring.
Even as it cheered Canadian Jenn Heil capping her legendary career with a silver medal at the 2010 Vancouver Games, Canadian Freestyle had begun to ask why only 25% of its members were girls – and why were they were dropping out at an alarming rate around 12 years old?
Today there are more than 40-plus heli- and cat-skiing operations on the deep powder slopes of British Columbia — a pursuit that started a half century ago in Canada’s Kootenay Rockies. Here’s a thorough list:
Ontario’s Grey County — home of Blue Mountain — has come together to create a selection of after-dark winter adventure experiences, including guided night snowshoe hikes through the scenic caves, skating under the stars, Nordic skiing by moonlight, and of course, night skiing at Blue Mountain. READ MORE
Vancouver is a city renowned for culinary excellence, and for the past five years, no room has crackled with buzz quite like David Hawksworth’s eponymous Hawksworth restaurant in the Hotel Georgia. Whistler Blackcomb hopes some of that magic has rubbed off on Steve Ramey, the newly appointed head chef at the refurbished Christine’s upstairs at the Rendezvous Lodge. Ramey is a North Vancouver native who served as Hawksworth’s sous-chef.
BC’s Panorama Mountain Resort unveiled its new Tayton Bowl experience – 60 acres of expanded terrain, plus a major glading project that makes the powder-filled playground more easily accessible for skiers and snowboarders.
Dreading the chills on the chairlift this season? A new moisturizing lotion claims to conquer the shivers by working with the body’s natural chemistry to make users feel up to 11 degrees warmer – especially during periods of rest between periods of intense activity.