Fernie first to get powder in North America
September 23rd, 2010 by mat
I have a great deal of time for Canadians, their country and their skiing. I spent a year over in British Columbia in the late 1990’s and had the best time you could imagine. I never got over to Fernie but it is certainly on the list. The last weekend they had a fresh dump and a few lucky locals got a powder day. September powder in British Columbia – bring it on! Not sure what the base was like and not sure the grins on the pictures I saw were quite as broad when they looked at the p-tex. I guess the ski shops will have had some early custom. No such worry on the Austrian glaciers over here, you hit when the snow cover is done for. Snow over here in Austria over the weekend and then glacier skiing for me on Monday 
excellent, i’m off to British Columbia next week cannot wait. Got everything sorted finally, just hope i can remember how to ski!
Hi Ross, thanks for your comments. I would check to see what is open as the skiing in Canada doesn’t always start this early. Whistler (the biggest in BC) will not open until November. It would be tough to fly all the way over to Canada to find nothing open, especially when the glacier skiing in Austria is so good right now.