9,700 hectares and nobody else

Our tenure is the licence to ski this ground, and we're the only operator who holds one here. It covers 68 named runs.

2,610 m to 1,540 m

A skier dropping into a steep untracked powder face in a plume of cold smoke

The blue line and the black line

The painted map has hung in the lodge since 1986. Two lines are painted on it. The blue-square line belongs to Cat Three, the first-week group. The black-diamond line belongs to Cat One, the fast group. Cat Two skis runs off both.

The painted map of the basin. The Horn at 2,610 m stands at the top, the bowls at 2,300 m below it, fir glades at 1,900 m, and the lodge and pickup at 1,540 m on the creek road. A blue line marked with squares runs from the ridge right of the Horn down the mellower glades to the lodge. A black line marked with diamonds drops from the summit straight through the bowls and the glades.
  • blue square: Cat Three's line
  • black diamond: Cat One's line
  • Lodge and pickup, 1,540 m

The painted map of the basin, on the lodge wall since 1986.

From the Horn to the creek road

  1. The HornThe summit, and the top of our terrain.2,610 m
  2. The bowlsOpen bowls below the Horn.2,300 m
  3. Fir gladesTrees that hold the snow. On storm days, the cats ski here.1,900 m
  4. The creek roadThe lodge and the pickup. Last pickup at 16:00.1,540 m

How much you ski in a day

On a cat day we count runs. Cat Three skis 8 to 10 a day, Cat Two 10 to 12, and Cat One 12 to 14. A heli add-on day aims for 4,500 to 6,000 m of vertical, with 4,000 m guaranteed.

8 to 14
runs a cat day across the three groups
4,000 m
of vertical guaranteed on a heli day

Concept figures