It is completely different to the average European resort. There aren't very many groomers. A large proportion of the terrain isn't piste bashed and there are a plentiful supply of trees.
On my third day it started to snow, and suddenly this place comes to life. All the nasty looking steep tree runs suddenly become a play ground.
The next day it hadn't stopped, 33cm overnight halfway up the mountain and even more up top and it was still going.
Fernie is made up of five open bowls and two were closed while avalanche control were doing their thing. We had fresh powder in the morning and then again when currie bowl opened later in the day.
Some don't like the fact that cedar bowl didn't open at all that day, however this just meant we had a fresh bowl to play with the next day:
At the end of this line of people is a rope! A magical rope that means all the terrain on the other side is closed. If you look carefully there is a man in orange who is about to open the area.
What followed was a race for the fresh powder. I snook in just below the crowd and got fresh lines all the way down!
