Kicking Horse

Kicking Horse is for hardcore skiiers and borders

Over 4000 vertical feet and nearly 3000 acres of dry snow, not much of it groomed. A gondola to the topand, which run will i take to the bottom this time? Where is everyone? No crowds.

If you love skiing hard and fast in challenging terrain, this is it. Theres a great restuarant at the top and a great coffee shop at the bottom which also does wonderful sushi. I wouldnt recommend for young familys or the casual skiier. Theres no nightlife maybe down in Golden but if you want to ski or board hard ,this is it .I go every year .

Action packed honeymoon!

We had a absolutely fantastic honeymoon at Kicking Horse! Awesome terrain, great ski school instructors and a relaxed vibe that was our style.

The Travelplan team were very knowledgeable and did a great job putting together our stay in Canada.

Kicking Horse is Awesome

I''ve just returned from two weeks at KHMR, following on from two weeks in Feb 2011. The hill is the best I''ve skied anywhere for several reasons, (1) terrain, (2) quality and quantity of snow, (3) lack of people especially midweek means no queues, (4) friendly relaxed atmosphere, and small intimate nature of the resort.  

The hill has good terrain for all standards of skiers/riders, but it really is mostly about advanced and experts. I wouldn''t class this as a "family mountain". After opening the Super Bowl this season (making 4 alpine bowls to play in) there are now 85 chutes inside the ski area boundary. It''s like having access to back-country skiing without all that hiking! Many of the double black chutes would be triple black on other hills!  

One slight downer is the lack of a shuttle bas service to the local town of Golden. So you''re stuck at the resort area if you don''t have a car.  

All in all Kicking Horse is brilliant a hill for the serious skier/rider. I''ll be going back again next year.