Revelstoke, BC February 19-20 and 24, 2026

[tseeb]

I met up with Paul (P-Ute from SkiTalk) at Revelstoke base not much after 9. He reminded me that we'd met at Mammoth when I skied there the first three days of July in 2019. He is on right in first photo at bottom of post that nobody probably looks closely at due to bikinis in 2nd photo. Paul got into an open slot at Mustang where we are going into this afternoon, lives in SLC area and has skied over 100 days some years. He went on a snowcat trip to Skeena a couple of years ago. We skied to Stoke chair and rode it a few times finding good steep groomed snow on many runs. It was cold with my phone showing single digits although my car thermometer showed low 20s. This was in town after dinner. I showed 6F at 640 AM on Thursday.

Sign at base of chair said -19C at top. After skiing runs closer to chair we skied Hot Sauce twice and the 2nd time we continued down Pitch Black to gondola mid-station. Snow deteriorated on way down for a while, could have been older scraped off man-made then got better. My feet were getting cold and I was hoping to re-adjusted them on gondola but our car was too full. At the top we moved to Stella chair and skied to closed earlier Ripper. We rode it then skied groomed Chopper that was in good shape. At the top of the chair we went into new since I was last there warming hut that was very busy. It had a vending machine that was out of order so we ate some cashews and dark chocolate I had. I didn't warm up much but rallied for a few laps up Stoke chair before repeating Hot Sauce to Pitch Black to Snow Rodeo then skied a groomed road where we were blasted by 4 snow canons to the bottom. We quit before 2 with over 25K. My watch ran out of battery at over 15K as I was not watching level and it only lasts about 4 days of skiing. The SkiTracks are from Paul's phone.

I didn't take any photos except from outside motel where I'm staying where it was sunnier and warmer than it was on mountain. Construction is to add a hot tub.

We ate at German/Indian/Thai fusion Paramjit where Paul had Butter Chicken Spaetzle and I had Thai sampler special. I ordered mine 5 of 8 heat and did not finish all the sauces at it was warm enough that I ate all the rice with it. We had a beer after dinner at Rumpus Beer Company after not finding seats at a couple of other places we tried that were still full of diners.

 

[Tony Crocker]

Lucky for me the current cold snap coincides with me cat skiing rather than riding chairs. Forecasts say yesterday was coldest day, gradually warming over next few days.

 

[jasoncapecod]

I met up with Paul (P-Ute from SkiTalk) at Revelstoke base not much after 9. He reminded me that we'd met at Mammoth when I skied there the first three days of July in 2019. He is on right in first photo at bottom of post that nobody probably looks closely at due to bikinis in 2nd photo. Paul got into an open slot at Mustang where we are going into this afternoon, lives in SLC area and has skied over 100 days some years. He went on a snowcat trip to Skeena a couple of years ago. We skied to Stoke chair and rode it a few times finding good steep groomed snow on many runs. It was cold with my phone showing single digits although my car thermometer showed low 20s. This was in town after dinner. I showed 6F at 640 AM on Thursday.
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Sign at base of chair said -19C at top. After skiing runs closer to chair we skied Hot Sauce twice and the 2nd time we continued down Pitch Black to gondola mid-station. Snow deteriorated on way down for a while, could have been older scraped off man-made then got better. My feet were getting cold and I was hoping to re-adjusted them on gondola but our car was too full. At the top we moved to Stella chair and skied to closed earlier Ripper. We rode it then skied groomed Chopper that was in good shape. At the top of the chair we went into new since I was last there warming hut that was very busy. It had a vending machine that was out of order so we ate some cashews and dark chocolate I had. I didn't warm up much but rallied for a few laps up Stoke chair before repeating Hot Sauce to Pitch Black to Snow Rodeo then skied a groomed road where we were blasted by 4 snow canons to the bottom. We quit before 2 with over 25K. My watch ran out of battery at over 15K as I was not watching level and it only lasts about 4 days of skiing. The SkiTracks are from Paul's phone.
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I didn't take any photos except from outside motel where I'm staying where it was sunnier and warmer than it was on mountain. Construction is to add a hot tub.
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We ate at German/Indian/Thai fusion Paramjit where Paul had Butter Chicken Spaetzle and I had Thai sampler special. I ordered mine 5 of 8 heat and did not finish all the sauces at it was warm enough that I ate all the rice with it. We had a beer after dinner at Rumpus Beer Company after not finding seats at a couple of other places we tried that were still full of diners.
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well...i classify that as Confusion cuisine not fusion...that said i'd still eat it

 

[jamesdeluxe]

i classify that as Confusion cuisine not fusion

I was going to say that. The German part is really odd but hey, whatever works. Spaetzle goes with virtually anything, I'd argue.

 

[Skieric]

I was going to say that. The German part is really odd but hey, whatever works. Spaetzle goes with virtually anything, I'd argue.

Paramjit is one of my Revelstoke favorites. However, I usually end up ordering the more traditional, non-fusion entrees.

 

[EMSC]

The place I always made sure to hit in Revy was Seoul Street for some good Korean food. Assuming I get back there someday, I'll have to try Paramjit as I do like Indian, Thai and also German foods...

 

[tseeb]

I don’t know much about Korean food but may check out Seoul Street on Mon night depending on what time we get back to town. Thurs night it was quiet when we had 6 pm reservation and very busy where we ate and elsewhere at 7 with many places had people waiting outside for tables.

Fri morning with -1F showing on my phone I walked a block to La Baguette. Fruit danish for breakfast, ham and cheese croissant for lunch. ~$10 US inc tip.

With some snow predicted for Sun/Mon we may not be able to heli out of Mustang where I am now. I left my laptop behind so I only have small iPhone and old iPad so posts and photo editing will be limited and may include a lot of edits.

I skied Revelstoke loading gondola before 9, not realizing they open at 830 and my last chair was Stoke loaded just before noon. It was a good day to ski single as I bypassed moderate to large lines on Stoke many times. Morning temps reported were -17C at top (same as on Thurs) and -10C (=14F and 3C/5+F lower than Thurs) at bottom. I should have spent upper gondola that I shared with another person tightening my boots instead of talking too much so after one steep groomed on Stoke, next time up I skied ungroomed to skiers right and continued to and rode Ripper that was running slow. I went into busy warming hut and found spot on bench where my body and boots were in sun, dialed them in and heard that Ripper was running slow as it was cold and it closed when it was-20C which guy from Ontario could not understand/thought was funny.
My 10 lifts were one gondola, one Ripper and eight Stokes. On Stoke I was enjoying ripping high-speed turns on steep groomers throwing dry snow 50’ on skis that had overnight tune and small base-weld done at the Wax Bench.

I got off the groomed runs in a few places with the most exciting run being Meet The Neighbors which I’d done at least once before with @Tony Crocker using gravity traverse from Stoke. I almost followed young guy down higher Unlimited Assets but he warned me about rocky entrance that I also had. I did not hit anything although definitely double-diamond with one ski wide traverse after steep drop with exposure. Unedited photo.

Mostly too cold to take off mittens for photos even though it was very sunny and beautiful early. I was going to try non-stopping my 5K+ last run but I didn’t like what Apple music starting playing when CD I had selected finished instead of going to next CD by same artist like it used to. So I took some photos partway down. Excuse the glove in upper left.

Guy from Calgary and his wife BBQing hot dogs in parking lot.

 

[EMSC]

With some snow predicted for Sun/Mon we may not be able to heli out of Mustang where I am now.

Hey stop using that Starlink. Focus on the snowcat skiing task at hand, lol!

I know Mustang had 13 cm just a couple days ago. Not sure if/how much in the days before that. Should be enough terrain with good powder snow to still have a solid trip. For reference Tseeb is in the same cat that I was supposed to be on (for what should have been my 2nd trip of the year) but instead my two guys trip buddies are there with him instead.

 

[tseeb]

After 3 days at Mustang, I returned to Revelstoke and skied with JohnL from SkiTalk who was also at Mustang. I found him near gondola that we loaded a little after 9. On a later gondola ride guy said it took him 90 minutes on previous day from when bus dropped him off at ski area to get to top of gondola due to crowds brought out by 19 cm new.

John had never been to Revelstoke and needed to be back in ID where he moved to a little over a year ago for an appt. today for medical problem, so I gave him a quick tour. We rode and skied Stoke a few times, then moved to Ripper staying on groomers although I hit some powder along edge of runs. The one ungroomed run we did was off Separate Reality Ridge into Vertigo Bowl. The top was good with some untracked and chopped up powder, but chute we came down was surprisingly scraped off and firm. After another Stoke ride, we did the long run to the bottom. John quit just after noon and caught the 1 PM ferry South with 10 minutes to spare. I wanted to eat lunch on gondola ride, but it was almost full, so I took a low chair and ate my lunch with this view. It had snowed in town but warmed up and was misting the evening before.

Line to order lunch and funny sign. I'd been listening to Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) a lot after winning tickets to Dave Stewart a year ago.

After lunch and a warmup run, I hiked the Lemming Line which I found only took about 5 minutes to gain ~100' although some kicked in steps were too close together. I dropped in off traverse finding deep, mostly chopped up powder. I went left and found a little less tracked before joining the long exit that ending with a firm chute with barely covered logs. Photos of North Bowl traverse and some of what I skied on my first lap.

I did another lap and was surprised to be spotted by Jeff who was waiting for Chris to have clear entry into steep bowl from higher hike they'd done.

Chris was on teles as he was at Mustang (tagging @flyover ) I went into Greely Bowl which Chris and Jeff had done on previous. There was some good deep snow, but exit includes a hike that is long enough to remove skis and even staying close to the boundary rope, I ended up close to same "firm chute with barely covered logs." After my two short hikes followed Ripper chair rides, I rode Stoke to top again. After a stop near top to water a tree, I non-stopped to bottom skiing some of Tally-Ho Glades into Hot Sauce and Pitch Black for a 5K run to end a 33.5K day. There were many very high-speed skiers and some boarders on only road to get to the bottom of mountain, but everyone seemed to have good control.

Paul, who'd also been at Mustang and had to sit out some of the excellent last day due to vertigo, had skied Kicking Horse where I will ski today. He stayed in same motel as I'd booked as Super 8 he'd booked through a 3rd party was not open. Also interesting is that 2 nights at Golden costs less than one at Revelstoke. We walked to and ate at Wolfs Den where I had burger that added grilled onions and mushrooms to the bacon, cheese and sauce that they all include. Paul had Butter Chicken Lasagna special that he said would have been better with less tomato sauce.