Pre-cursor: I was amazed to find nothing on TGR about this cat skiing location,
so I thought I would fill people in Everyone knows of Whistler. The place is a
mecca for skiing and snowboarding during the canadian winter and the last couple
of winters (including the Olympics), has added to the statureit has been
fantastic up here! Obviously
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face for sale with a tourism destination such as Whis. come all of the
operations in and around the town. It is also obvious that with a town of this
nature it will have many positive, and negative attributesone of the biggest
negatives is the shear amount of people and the rush for fresh tracks, while the
positive is that there is just so much terrain to ride! After 8 years
snowboarding on Whistler Blackcomb it has become somewhat difficult to motivate
to get up there at times nowadays. Thankfully there are cat skiing operations of
amazing quality around the area, of which generally receive more snow than the
resort when the white gold flies! This is especially true if you head 1 hr
north, just to the other side of Pemberton to the base of the Hurleya sledding
and backckountry skiing haven with so much terrain it's just insane (images and
video filmed in the 'Whislter Backcountry' are often in this area and nearby).
Up on the top of the Hurley Pass is a cat skiing operation called Backcountry
Snowcats and for the last two winters we have saved our money for 2 and 3 day
trips to this winter wonderland, rather than purchasing seasons passes for
Whistler Blackcombperhaps we are crazy, but for us, less is more and quality
beats out quantity of days skied. The terrain at Backcountry Snowcats varies
greatly and really has something for everyone, big, open, alpine bowls, steep
tree skiing, mellow tree skiing, cliff lines, pillow lines, you name it, you can
probably find it here. In fact, on our first trip to Snowcats big mountain
snowboarder, Johnavon Moore, was there
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with Arc'teryx and hit one of the craziest, pillow/cliff lines I have seen
hitjust awesome! Our favourite days involved warming up on some big open bowls
in the morning, ripping faceshots, slashing lips and popping of things all the
way down then moving into the trees and getting on the hunt! Pillows, drops,
tight lines into open sections just waiting to have a slash layed into, it's so
good! The snow has been amazing on both occasionslight enough on top to flare up
at the slightest hint of movement across it's surface and firm enough deeper
down to prevent hitting any of the potential boney underlayers. It is confidence
inspiring! The Snowcats location is perfect. Far enough out of Whistler to
prevent the ability of day trips, meaning that you have to commit, but once you
do
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is more than worth it! You really are out in the mountains with nothing but
surrounding you, and only you and 12 of your friends (max), or new friends if
you didn't fill the cat there for good times! I really can't say enough how good
the place is and highly recommend anyone that are looking into cat skiing
consider hitting the Hurley Pass with the clan from Backcountry Snowcats! They
have some great videos on their site that help me to relive the great times
there and get me itching for more! All the boarders out there should check out
this
