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Snowsport expert, Ty Mills, on what makes Golden the ultimate winter destination
13.11.2023 - 09:37 / nationalgeographic.com
Surrounded by the Canadian Rockies, Purcell and Selkirk Mountains, Golden is at the heart of winter adventure. This Canadian town's sporty reputation can be traced back to the 1980s and the opening of their local ski resort. In the pecking order of North American ski areas, Kicking Horse Mountain Resort is considered a walk on the wild side, revered for its black diamond runs and extreme terrain. Outside the resort, Golden is renowned for its heli-skiing, cat-skiing, guided touring and backcountry lodging.
We speak to long-time resident, Ty Mills, a ski guide with over 20 years’ experience in skiing and mountain lodge operations.
I would describe it as an awe-inspiring mountain with diverse terrain. People get out at the top of the gondola and their jaws drop at the scenic panoramas, the huge terrain all around them and this sense of being somewhere special. It’s also kind of a quiet place in the sense it doesn’t have all the glitz and glitter of other resorts, so people still come here as a side trip and realise this will become their primary destination.
When people get out at the top, they can ski over 4,000 vertical feet. For most, that’s quad-burning material. It’s very rugged alpine terrain with a ton of couloirs (gorges) leading down into gentle bowls. A lot of resorts in British Columbia don’t have that type of terrain.
Kicking Horse is not necessarily the classic family resort, yet a lot of families come here now and there are plenty of facilities for them. There are fun ski runs at the base of the mountain, tubing parks, magic carpet rides and lots of great ski programmes for young people to participate in.
Tunnel Vision — it’s about 300 feet from the top of the gondola. Everyone skis along CPR Ridge and they look down this gnarly looking couloir with a skinny little entrance and go right past it. If you go in, you’re rewarded with this huge open powder field with glorious skiing and boarding taking you down into Crystal Bowl. It’s a crowd-pleaser.
In heli-skiing, helicopters fly people up into the mountains and land on a high ridge or a safe spot. Trips predominantly have a guide who chooses the terrain to safely ski down to a pick-up point. They do this over the length of the day until everyone’s tired. It’s a fantastic bucket list way to go out and experience powder in the mountains.
It’s fairly widely accepted that heli-skiing was invented by Hans Gmoser in British Columbia in the 1960s. Hans then went on to create CMH (Canadian Mountain Holidays), which is now the largest heli-skiing company in Canada and likely the world.
Golden is nestled between the Rocky Mountains to the east, the Purcells and Dogtooths to the west and the Selkirks to the north. All these ranges have different
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