Back to Powder and Sunshine

Yahoo! 30cm of fresh powder and sunshine. Not much more to be said. Yahoo! Joaquin ripping it up.

Guide - Joaquin

If you skied at Wildhorse this year or last year chances are you were with Joaquin. If you are in Ymir in the summer and you looked up you might see him flying his paraglider or taking clients for tandem paragliding trips.

What do we do on our Day Off

And these blogs for more photos and adventures in the backcountry around Wildhorse Catskiing.
So we put down this line on Wildhorse Peak and then for the next two days dragged some adventurous clients up there too.

Ymir Palace

Welcome to the Ymir Palace - headquarters of Wildhorse Catskiing during the winter. Hosts Belinda and Ross White renovated an old mining day hotel and now prepare delicious breakfasts and dinners for hungry skiers. Ready to go skiing!

Tyler - Cat Driver

Argueably one of the most valuable members of team Wildhorse is the snowcat driver. What do you do when you get to the bottom of run - get into the cat and go back up with Tyler driving. On the rare occassion that we let him out of the snowcat for good behavior there are snowmobile and snowcat maintenance or perhaps more enjoyable carrying skis up to the summit of Wildhorse for another wicked run. Thanks Tyler.

Road Building and Sunshine

After a couple more days of snow and low visibility we have a short break between catskiing bookings to finish the road network. We had a bunch of roads built but they were drowned in 100cm of snow in 36 hours and a small avalanche across our upper road network. We got out today and started rebuilding. We built the road to Wildhorse Peak and then were treated to a beautiful sunset. It's good to be getting up high again. The skiing looks amazing.

Snowcat Maintenance

It's that time of year again when the snowcat gets overhauled. The tracks are removed and pulled upright so that every single bolt, track and grouser can be inspected, tightened, welded, or replaced. Most of the noises that the snowcat makes come from a loose something on the tracks. We will spend a week alone on the tracks. The snow is pretty much all gone now.

Summer Maintenance

Over the summer the Wildhorse Bombardier MP Plus Snowcat will be completely stripped down and all systems checked. First we remove the tracks, replace broken grousers, belts and wheels. This summer I will replace all the drive belts which involves almost 1000 bolts being undone and replaced. The snowcat is then placed up on blocks and all engine and hydralic systems overhauled. At the conclusion of the service the tracks are then replaced and we are ready for winter.

I had another great winter working at Wildhorse Catskiing & Powder Mining Co. and look forward to many more. The skiing this winter was epic. We had day after day when we would arrive to yet another foot of fresh dry light powder. Thanks to all the great people that came skiing this year. It was awesome skiing with you. I look forward to doing some more turns next winter.

Many thanks to Jeneka Plug our trusty and reliable tailgunner for this winter. Here is Jeneka taking the group to the summit of Wildhorse Peak for a run down the steep Wildhorse bowl.