Ten days in a quaint little drinking town with a skiing problem sadly passes more quickly then expected. It's 8am on Day 7 and I'm drinking coffee and thinking about heading up to Sunshine Village to do another day on the mountains up there. The weather is fine but below freezing, and there was new snow overnight. It's a good day to be up the hill.
Yesterday we made the ninety-minute trek over to Golden in British Columbia to hit the slopes at Kicking Horse Resort, back over the border. Snow was mostly acceptable, though icy in places and turning to slush towards the end of the day. Spring is attempting to make its presence felt. I liked the resort overall, but the trail map consisted mostly of immensly long green cat tracks (thin winding cliff edge trails connected by hairpin bends) and near vertical blue and black diamond drops. Not well suited to my skill level. On the plus side, so near to the end of the season, Kicking Horse was basically an immense mountain resort with practically on one on it, which means yay. You know how I hate people.
I got my ass off the mountain (and not by sliding downhill on it, in case you wondered) about fifteen minutes early, so I was forced to check out the branded merchandise. I'm not one for tourist items - the best tourists are invisible ones - but I was impressed by the resort's branding strategy (see icon below). The resort is named after the nearby river, and the Native American-inspired kicking horse icon is an impressive branding device. I picked up a little gift for The Girl with the icon embroidered in bronze on it. It kicks horse ass. Yeah, I'm a geek, but a sucker for good design and intelligent branding. No doubt KH moves a lot of superfluous product just because it looks good. Well done, some person.
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