Get your kicks at the Horse, with Kicking Horse spring events
On-mountain DJs, Sunsplash Funkfest on tap
Golden, BC A room with a view is nice, but how about days with views that will kick your socks off! Add in a full slate of awesome après-ski events and you've got the makings of a great spring ski trip to Kicking Horse Mountain Resort (KHMR).
“People gotta come to Kicking Horse to believe it,” explains Toby Barrett, guest experiences manager at KHMR. “It's really one of the most unique mountain playgrounds that anyone has ever built lifts too.”
Barrett is spot-on with an invite to come to Kicking Horse anytime post March 21 through the balance of their season to enjoy their spring events series.
“Light is brighter, days are longer and we are celebrating a great season. This one has been monumental and if it's any indication of what is happening right now, conditions are shaping up to be all time right until the end,” says Barrett.
Here is a quick rundown on what’s on the calendar.
Saturdays, Mar 21-Apr 5: Corona Presents Kicking Horse Spring DJ Series
Every Saturday now through the closing weekend of April 12, you’ll find a DJ on mountain as part of Kicking Horse’s “Corona Presents Spring DJ Series.”
This might mean you’ll be dancing your cares away on the summit, or down in the village within their new Corona beer gardens.
Apr 11-12: SunSplash FunkFest
Kicking Horse's annual spring closer offers up 100 spots for its annual slush cup on the Sunday, so get registered now! For the Saturday, not only will there be a DJ, the Naturalist, but also a dummy downhill.
Next to the events happening as part of the DJ series and Funkfest, the adventures on mountain will continue through close with some of the most exhilarating terrain in Western Canada.
Get your kicks at the Horse
amp your spring skiing with events, high-alpine adrenaline
With my visit recently, I was reminded just how much of an adventure each and every run is here at the Horse.
Hike T1, aka Terminator Ridge, to score a run called “Truth” that you can get a feel for in this video story below.
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TO ADD: reel from Madeline
With almost 30 years' experience on a snowboard, and scoring about 100 days a year, there are not many runs that put my heart in my throat like this run “Truth” does. A gnarly entrance, with an aggressive vertical drop and into the POW.
It’s about a 30-min hike up the Terminator Ridge, and from the top you have options: run the front side of the ridge, for this run Truth, or drop into the backside of the ridge into Super Bowl.
While hiking Terminator up to T1 you will see the Glory Suspension Bridge, which in summer is the start for the Via Ferrata (Italian for Iron Way).
The ski and snowboard events don’t stop there given Kicking Horse is home to so many impressive hikes. Terminator Ridge (T1 or T2 summits), take the Stairway to Heaven and up to take on the Whitewall. Keep your workouts happening, and take on another 25-30min hike up Ozone.
So many events, so little time—with only weeks to go in Kicking Horse’s season. Get there now.
When you go
Kicking Horse is on the TransCanada Highway about three hours west of Calgary.
Coming from Vernon? It will take you about four hours.
The village of Kicking Horse is home to tons of on mountain accommodation options.
You want to go high roll it? Stay on mountain, way up on mountain with a signature stay at the Eagle’s Eye Suites.
Score the feeling of night flight, catching the gondola up to the Eagle’s Eye Restaurant opening for Friday and Saturday night dining.
If nothing else, be sure to saddle up to the bar for lunch at the Eye, for a view that will knock your socks off!