Yes, and here’s how with a little help from some friends

I’ve become a skiing wimp in my middle-age. Black diamond runs that I would have once skied with abandon have little appeal. Fortunately, cruisers especially the groomers with untracked corduroy and mogul runs, providing the moguls come in nice shapes, remain perennial favourites. And I’ll always say an enthusiastic ‘yes’ to a powder day. So my skiing days are hardly over.

But I am intimidated by steep terrain.

And that is what Kicking Horse is best known for. Count the black diamonds on the trail map and you’ll find over 90 runs rated as advanced to expert, versus 36 runs rated beginner to intermediate. Take out the beginner runs and you’re down to 15 intermediate trails, hardly an endorsement to spend a weekend at the resort for a skier like me.

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