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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 [...]
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 [...]
Mica Heli Guides featured on Canada’s most popular ski TV show
Mica Heli Guides hosted Joe Lammers and Daryl Palmer Jan 1st to 3rd 2009 to shoot a new episode for Canada’s most popular television ski show – Pontiac World of Skiing (PWOS).
PWOS first filmed at Mica Heli Ski Guides in 2006 when Mike Douglas was hosting the show and stated “The best heli-ski trip of [...]
Island Lake Lodge and Powder Cowboy catskiing in great shape after huge snowfall
A challenging snow year in Western Canada turned around this week with a massive 65 cm (over 2 foot) snowfall. Monday, February 23rd saw 20 cms of wet snowfall, which was perfect for filling in the terrain. Then a cold arctic front moved in hitting the turbulent moist air in Southern British Columbia, creating the [...]
RIDE GUIDE’S “POWDER HIGHWAY” EPISODE FEATURING ISLAND LAKE AND POWDER COWBOY CATSKIING NOW PLAYING ON SHAW VIDEO ON DEMAND
Ride Guide TV, North America’s premier ski, snowboard and mountain bike television series, launched on February 19, 2009, on Shaw Video On Demand, into 950,000 VOD enabled digital households across Western Canada.
Ride Guide’s “Powder Highway” episode, (Ride Guide Snow 136), is now available to view 24/7, on Shaw Video on Demand. The “Powder Highway” locations [...]
ISLAND LAKE AND POWDER COWBOY CATSKIING NOW PLAYING ON RIDE GUIDE ON THE SKI CHANNEL USA.
Ride Guide TV, North America’s premier cat and heli ski, snowboard and mountain bike television series, is now featuring the “Powder Highway” episode on The Ski Channel into 15 million households throughout the USA.
The Ski Channel is an original ad supported network delivered via VOD (Video On Demand), web, wireless, and other means of [...]
