Fernie versus Revelstoke versus other BC/AB towns

realassboatProbably gonna head up to be super poor and live in my truck and try to ski as much as possible, both resort and backcountry, and since my poverty lifestyle of a baked bean diet doesn’t entice a lot of my friends, looks like I’ll be trooping it mostly alone. Between the BC resorts (excluding whistler area), what’s got the best balance of skiing to also potentially being able to find chillers to ski with?

Should note probably for ~2 weeks ish before heading back down to MT

@dylansiggers @paulgenovese

@burnsey. @Crabbeski_NB

come to whistler my man, i’ll be there living in my car too

micsinthetreescome to whistler my man, i’ll be there living in my car too

mann I got an ikon pass with a college discount. cant justify the whistler days if I already paid for like 3 weeks of skiing sadly

Both are great but Fernie for sure, a friendly community, good bars in town, and great skiing, maybe do half and half for the season? a 5hr drive between the 2

Both are simalar and great

Fernie skiing is more playful and chill, all the jumps are like cattracks and snow bumps and shit, its fun as hell. Decent town life, concerts and parties on the weekends and weird little kareokee nights and shit during the week.

Revelstoke skiing is way more gnarly, more access to insane shit too. In bounds revy has really sick cliff things and actual real life pillows if you go into Greely Bowl.

Do both, ski Golden too. and also goto Nelson and ski Whitewater. Tour in Kootenay Pass, and goto Lake Louise if your still around in the spring

I love whistler, but if you just wanna ski and do canada things dont bother going to Whis

dylansiggersBoth are simalar and great

Fernie skiing is more playful and chill, all the jumps are like cattracks and snow bumps and shit, its fun as hell. Decent town life, concerts and parties on the weekends and weird little kareokee nights and shit during the week.

Revelstoke skiing is way more gnarly, more access to insane shit too. In bounds revy has really sick cliff things and actual real life pillows if you go into Greely Bowl.

Do both, ski Golden too. and also goto Nelson and ski Whitewater. Tour in Kootenay Pass, and goto Lake Louise if your still around in the spring

I love whistler, but if you just wanna ski and do canada things dont bother going to Whis

Hell ya sounds like a plan, thanks fellas

**This post was edited on Nov 11th 2024 at 1:58:17pm

Revy is a blast

For truck living revy is possible with the right set up as long as your smart and keep things on the DL, this goes for all the interior and berta though. I have only ridden revy, shine, louise, silverstar, and whis. This year though and from good friends who live in fernie the van life is definetly possible and sounds like a time. All depends on your budget and how much you want to follow good snow and your comfortability on parking up inacase the passes close which happens more often then not. Obviously the ones within parks canada its a little better to be incognito af because you will get written up.
cheers

I live in Fernie and have mostly skied here the last few years. It is a pretty great town, and easy enough to stay in a van.

Yooooo go to whitewater in Nelson you’ll never want to leave. Incredible snow, the best ever. funky town, in the middle of nowhere, super hesh. Really the boonies. you’ll fit in living in a car many do

fernie cool but I’d trip out to revy over it any day. Revy is the greatest. Pow days at revy make up a disproportionate number of my favourite moments on this earth. only whitewater beats the snow, but Revys got the vert. Amazing terrain and love the town. You can camp in the resort parking lot if you check in with the hotel. There are many wild spots too. Ioverlander app. Ykfgo. Check out Rogers pass if you tour.

kicking horse in golden has crazy terrain. One of the coolest resorts out there. super worth a visit to experience it. but same owners as fernie, so it’s expensive.

im in Rockies, Banff Natl park is really hard to camp free in. Lake Louise is cool and you can sleep in the overflow parking lot. if you’re still around in the spring Sunshine Spring Pass is pretty dope, can’t compare it to hood spring pass vibe wise, it’s spensive and again hard to camp, but lots of terrain to rip usually, and it goes as long usually too.

avoid Whistler imo. Thankfully the Sea To Sky is all downhill so you can coast your car back down to Van to find a can of soup for less than 5$ when you inevitably run out of money. That’s all the nice things I have to say about Whistler

BenchhitterYooooo go to whitewater in Nelson you’ll never want to leave. Incredible snow, the best ever. funky town, in the middle of nowhere, super hesh. Really the boonies. you’ll fit in living in a car many do

fernie cool but I’d trip out to revy over it any day. Revy is the greatest. Pow days at revy make up a disproportionate number of my favourite moments on this earth. only whitewater beats the snow, but Revys got the vert. Amazing terrain and love the town. You can camp in the resort parking lot if you check in with the hotel. There are many wild spots too. Ioverlander app. Ykfgo. Check out Rogers pass if you tour.

kicking horse in golden has crazy terrain. One of the coolest resorts out there. super worth a visit to experience it. but same owners as fernie, so it’s expensive.

im in Rockies, Banff Natl park is really hard to camp free in. Lake Louise is cool and you can sleep in the overflow parking lot. if you’re still around in the spring Sunshine Spring Pass is pretty dope, can’t compare it to hood spring pass vibe wise, it’s spensive and again hard to camp, but lots of terrain to rip usually, and it goes as long usually too.

avoid Whistler imo. Thankfully the Sea To Sky is all downhill so you can coast your car back down to Van to find a can of soup for less than 5$ when you inevitably run out of money. That’s all the nice things I have to say about Whistler

I just realized you tour and you already know the Whistler vibes. My bad

rogers pass must do, super high concentration of really good lines and great snow. In the middle of golden and revy, so you can base either

banff area is my spot, greatest concentration of type 2 mountaineering with skis bullshit out there. If you want aesthetic and technical lines, we got the goods. Not for everyone tho.

kicking Horse (golden) and revy both have great side country off the resort and some sick backcountry as well.

BenchhitterI just realized you tour and you already know the Whistler vibes. My bad

rogers pass must do, super high concentration of really good lines and great snow. In the middle of golden and revy, so you can base either

banff area is my spot, greatest concentration of type 2 mountaineering with skis bullshit out there. If you want aesthetic and technical lines, we got the goods. Not for everyone tho.

kicking Horse (golden) and revy both have great side country off the resort and some sick backcountry as well.

hell ya boss. For now it’s lookin like I’ll spend a bit of time in fernie then jaunt up to banff to hit lake Louise and tour, then head to rev for the majority of my time and then Nelson area. Thanks a lot

@Lucasboudreau15

Kicking Horse/ Golden has absolutely bonkers terrain and the best slack country set up in BC. Post up for a bit but definitely do a tour. You can hit a completely different style resort every two hours in the Kootenays.

I did a road trip a few years back.

I enjoyed Kicking Horse the most. The terrain is sick. Revelstoke was awesome. Fernie was awesome. I would without a doubt return to all three of those.

I feel like in all three places it was easy to meet people. Maybe Revelstoke the easiest because of the hostel we stayed at and the way everyone is funneled into the same hike at the top.

Whistler was cool but busy. Castle Mountain was alright but not amazing.

We also did some US resorts. I was surprised how much I enjoyed Schweizer. Whitefish was also really fun. Mt. Baker felt like a must. Alpental also great.