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National Geographic Traveler names Island Lake Lodge as one of the top places to stay on the globe

Fernie, BC Canada June 1st 2009 – The international acclaimed travel magazine National Geographic Traveler recently published their Stay List 2009 Guide”, an [...]

National Geographic Traveler names Island Lake Lodge as one of the top places to stay on the globe.

Fernie, BC Canada June 1st 2009 – The international acclaimed travel magazine National Geographic Traveler recently published their “Stay List 2009 Guide”, an elite list of 129 hotels around the globe with a transcendent vision that goes beyond traditional hotel-keeping. Island Lake Lodge was first on the list of only 13 in Canada.
“It really is [...]

Mica Heli Guides launches new ground breaking website

Mica Heli Guides launched their new full video website www.micaheli.com on Friday, a collaboration with Sitemasher, Hitman Media and Mobile Rider.
Six months in the making the new Mica Heli Guides web site incorporates some state of the art features; full screen video on the home page (courtesy of MobileRider), Google Earth terrain map allowing you [...]

Thank YOU for another fantastic season!

The 2009 Cat and Heli Ski season has come to a close and WOW did it ever go out with a bang! All through March, Mother nature dumped deep dry powder on the BC Rockies – conditions were epic!

All three operations had a safe season, seats were full, the skiing and boarding were fantastic and [...]

Aussies take Island Lake by Storm!

Rip Curl, Oakley South Pacific, DC and Billibong athletes; Chris Booth, Andrea Berchtold, Jordan Houghton, Ryan Tiene, Mitch Allen & Robbie Walker traveled around the globe to shred the Legendary Island Lake Lodge.   The guys had an epic trip, got some great lines and rode some sweet powder.

Pro photographers [...]

April Skiing is EPIC at Mica Heli Guides!

Spring may be here but you would never know it at Mica Heli Guides. With over a meter of snow at -8 to -10 celcius in the last week the Guides all agree that the powder skiing is the best it’s been all year. “Our guests this first week of April are all raving that [...]

ISLAND LAKE AND POWDER COWBOY FINISH THE 2ND ANNUAL PHOTO SHOOTOUT CONTEST.

Powder Cowboy and Island Lake Catskiing have wrapped up their annual photo
shootout contest. The 3-day event saw 9 teams compete for $10,000 in cash and
prizes. Each team was comprised of 1 photographer and 3 athletes for a total of 36
competitors.
Mother Nature was kind to the competitors and provided 40-50 cm of fresh snow
over the 3-day [...]

Island Lake Lodge and Powder Cowboy hosted The Ride Guide

“Island Lake Lodge and Powder Cowboy catskiing recently hosted The Ride Guide for a 4 day video shoot. “
The Ride Guide is one of the most popular snow shows on the planet and regular guests to the Island Lake and Powder Cowboy catskiing operations. This segment will feature Atomic pro skiers Julian Carr and [...]

Island Lake Lodge providing about 50 cms of fresh powder

A recent storm blew into Island Lake Lodge providing about 50 cms of fresh powder. Snowboard Canada Magazine stopped by to work on an article for next winters edition.
Pro athletes Murray Hodgson, Jonovan Moore, Scott Shaw, Ryan Johanessen and Pete Navin shredded the Island Lake terrain with Jeff Patterson taking images for the article.
The [...]

Legend of Island Lake

Mar 10th 2009; Day two of The North Face taking on Island Lake Catskiing.
A North Face crew of 18 are at Island Lake Lodge this week having what some are quoting as “the best heli skiing of their lives”. With 50cm of fresh this week and blue bird sky’s they are having an epic trip! [...]