The Powder Cowboy Catskiing Tenure is famous for its long ridge lines, great deep snow, and drops with Runs heading to all points of the compass. With nine different zones and over 6000 acres to play in, we never get bored!
The Cabin Zone is the front door to our terrain. Big and little cruizer peaks provide some of the best overview of the surrounding area and offer great warm up runs to start the day. Open slopes and very spacious tree skiing down to the cabin wake the legs, and stroke ego’s as fresh tracks look incredible on these beautiful domes.
The Backside of the cruisers is a different story, with steep chutes and bowls that drop into the Iron Zone … like deep throat, plus 40, and Iron bowl . The very aesthetic Rager Backside drops into this same zone, making more than a few photo comp athletes drool with its beautiful west face and lower cliff band hucks! From the top of Rager, one can ski west into the Iron zone, North into Mr. Perfect (I don’t think I need to explain that one, except maybe it is one of the longest runs we have and well… maybe it’s named after someone you know!), or South into the Lizard zone.
The Lizard Zone is our bread and butter. Some of the best tree skiing in the Rockies can be found here. Rager and Outrageous compete with the kilometer long Lizard Ridge for the most and often best runs of the day. This is skiing through large old growth spruce and fir forest with perfect spacing and lasting impressions! The Big drink is one of our more classic spring corn runs in this zone.
One of the best things about the Powder Cowboy Catskiing tenure is the abundance of long ridges and peaks with lines dropping in all directions.
Lizard Ridge has an abundance of skiing on north and south aspects, Cabin ridge and Yeti the same, but even more lines. All of these ridges have runs feeding into the Lakeside zone. Animal house, Bonny’s bowl, Accelerator ridge (and bowl), Moonies money, and long open runs on slide side. Ask your guide if they can show you some fun in Million-aires!
A long and exciting road to the top of the
Cabin Ridge often leads to the days last run down to the access road and a quick ski to the staging area. Chef’s special, Steep and Deep, and Cabin Run drop off through beautifully gladed lines towards the meadow, and some of our longest runs start after passing the full length of the dramatic ridge with runs that seem to go on forever. Classics like April Fools Bowl, 8 and under and Swiss Cheese may well be remembered as the perfect end to a great ski day!
And that’s not all of our terrain yet. For the more adventurous group, a little boot hiking from the top of our drop zones into some brilliant and otherwise inaccessible features include long and gorgeous lines on
Yeti backside, snakes and ladders, 3G (yes that’s short for three thousand feet) and April Fools Peak.