Passing Through: Kicking Horse, BC - A big mountain cathedral in British Columbia's Purcell Mountains
Staring off into the expanse of fluted and caked peaks before you, you’d swear you’re in Alaska. That is, were it not for the evenly spaced forest draped off each mountain with its manes of tree beard screaming: “British Columbia.” These are the Purcell Mountains as witnessed from their front range, which you’re now standing on.
Rising 8,000 feet from sea level, above the hard-edged logging and rail town of Golden, Kicking Horse Mountain Resort is a multi-peaked big-mountain cathedral with 4,000 feet of vertical whose closest comparable cousin is Jackson Hole. Except this place comes in a blue-collar package that scares away the Jerries.