MOUNTAIN
GUIDE 2012
NO FRILLS. NO B.S. NO SLOPESIDE VALETS.
You just want to ski. So do we. Back side to front side,
Kokanee to craft brews, you do it all. Where to start?
Here. Our annual Mountain Guide offers an insider’s
look at North American skiing. It’s loaded with beta
on our favorite hills from locals who live, party, and ski
there. Grab your boards and go. —KELLEY MCMILLAN
THOSE RESPONSIBLE: so familiar with their region, who then hand-
This year, we enlisted local respective regions, they picked a panel of trusted
experts to create each could pop off tips you’d natives. The result: a finely
of the Mountain Guide’s never get anywhere else. tuned road map to each
regional sections. They’re We tapped one writer per area’s bounty.
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A January sunrise
over Mineral Basin
at Snowbird, Utah.
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Photo by Adam Barker
MOUNTAIN GUIDE 2012
CANADA
CONTRIBUTORS ode homegrown
Writer
Mitchell Scott Snow-
MASSIVE, EH?
crystal researcher, FROM THE HIGH AND ICONIC than entire countries and storm
Kootenay Mountain Rocky Mountains along the British cycles that can last for months, and
Culture magazine Columbia–Alberta border to the you’ll see the true face of paradise.
editor, Nelson local impenetrable wilderness fortify- And paradise here comes in many
ing the Coast range’s Pacific edge, forms—from the cosmopolitan ERIC PEHOTA
Consultants western Canada is, in a word, nightlife of Whistler, where you Hailing from Mackenzie, in
Leslie Anthony massive: 400,000-square-miles can step off the back patio for a northern BC, Eric Pehota has
Herpetologist, Whistler massive. With over 50 ski resorts, multi-day traverse, to the elemental notched more first descents in
local, former editor of count