Nature Conservancy acquires Darkwoods Land

On July 24th the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) publicly announced their acquisition of the Darkwoods Property where Wildhorse Catskiing operates. The management of Darkwoods informed Wildhorse several years ago of the intention to sell and subsequent purchase of the company and its lands earlier this year. We have been informed that all existing contracts are being honored. We are very happy with the acquisition by the new owners and the direction towards conservancy of this land. We also operate our backcountry skiing operation at Yurtopia on the Darkwoods Land.

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.

California Riders Ski Wildhorse

Great blog with a great summary of their adventure at Wildhorse Catskiing & Powder Mining Co.
http://kearleys.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html

Wildhorse Photos

We have a huge assortment of powder skiing photographs from the winter of 2007-08 at Wildhorse Catskiing. I spent part of the day looking them over reviewing the winter - all of the great ski days and great people. These memories are very special. Photographs are one way we can hold onto the memory of a great powder ski day and let it live within us through the long summer.

Check out this winter's photos

March Powder and Sunshine

Classic Mustang Bowl

Under some pressure to produce blogs after a day of skiing.... Another way of checking out what is going on at Wildhorse and how conditions are is to check out Sara's photo gallery at http://www.skiwildhorse.com/. Sometimes it gets a little tricky to get on the internet when Sara is busy downloading images for the photo gallery from our satellite internet connection. But here is some turns from last week in Mustang Bowl.

Wildhorse Bowl Descent

I've been getting mildly hassled by people requesting me to update this blog. What are the snow conditions like? It has not snowed for awhile? Is there any good skiing? Is there any powder? We have about 10-14 days of great skiing between snowfalls. Every day is a little different depending on conditions and the group. The last couple of days has been beautiful bluebird powder days and we made the most of the conditions by kicking steps up Wildhorse Peak and traversing to Wildhorse Bowl and descending this line. Dave and Michelle pose in front of their line.