Do you know that feeling every winter? You know, that feeling when winter is just about to start and the leaves have fallen off the trees and you get your first epic powder day on the mountain? It’s an amazing feeling really, and it’s something that’s almost irreplaceable. When Christmas is just a few days away and you’re sitting by the fire with your hot chocolate and shortbread just watching the snow fall right by your window in a cozy cabin. I know I have, and I have to say that it has to be one of the most relaxing feelings ever. I remember skiing the mountains up North with my cousins, whether it’s making that last run on the T-Bar, hitting a jump in the park, or throwing on some skins and traversing up through the powder fields in the seemingly endless mountain range.
To me, it’s an ultimate sense of freedom, and it’s something I can’t wait to experience again. Just getting to these small ski towns is equally as impressive in my opinion. Whether you’re driving in a car or flying in a plane to these places in BC it almost seems that the landscape never stops. You drive, and drive, and drive, for a whole day, through so much terrain until a small town nestled in the vast mountain range comes into view. For a moment you look in disbelief at the signs on the winding mountain highway when you see a sign that says the town centre is only 10 minutes away. Ski season is almost upon us, and even the Northern mountains have already been covered in snow, despite the fact that’s it’s not even October yet. Crazy right? At this rate, the fall could turn into ski weather rather than the usual hunting season in the North.