At the beginning of February, I decided to do something that’s been on my list for a while: Take a long-weekend ski trip from Denver up to British Columbia. In terms of ski hills, the Province is headlined by Whistler, a mountain that attracts hoards of international visitors and has seen its fair share of tourism development over the years. I was looking for something a little different, and I found it a few hours west of Calgary, in the very southeast part of the Province along the borders of the States and Alberta. Tucked away in this forgotten area is a string of seven ski hills that together make up the Powder Highway, an area headlined by an abundance of heli-operators and backcountry ski huts.

I didn’t have the funds to go for heli nor the time to disappear into the backcountry, but I did ski the region’s two most iconic mountains, Revelstoke and Kicking Horse.

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