We hit Kicking Horse with James’s mate Richard Barker of Kicking Horse Powder Tours, who showed us around some of the resort’s legendary steep terrain, but it was on our second day here, and the last full day of the road trip, that we enjoyed our best skiing.

With the sun blazing in a clear blue sky we hooked up with former Swiss ski patroller Max Cretin who now works for the resort. Max took us to various dauntingly steep powder stashes reached from the top of a gondola and a chairlift which give adventurous skiersaccess to a remarkably wide array of challenging terrain that, even several days after the last dump, still offered plenty of dry, grippy snow to play on. Indeed, I don’t think I’ve ever skied a hill with so much fantastic skiing accessible from just two lifts.

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