Cat Skiing in Steamboat
Cat skiing Colorado style with Steamboat Powdercats is a special experience, one that may reward you with the best day of skiing or snowboarding in your life. Though Mother Nature holds the cards to how powder rich your cat skiing day with them will be, they ve put together a system with their guides, their snowcats and business infrastructure that should provide you with an excellent day in the Steamboat backcountry. A day cat skiing with them will include: 8 16 runs 8,000 14,000 vertical feet per day 3 guides per snowcat Complimentary Armada powder skis and Never Summer snowboards Powder Poles Beacon, shovel, probes Shuttle service to and from your lodging Light breakfast and full, catered hot lunch Water and snacks in cat XM radio and ipod connections in cat Image disk of digital images of you (and your friends) skiing in powder. Please realize that there may be some days where their photographer cannot make the trip so please bring your own camera in case of this circumstance. If they can get the images they will burn a disk for you. Their 3 heated cats allow them to group their guests by skiing ability so everyone is at their comfortable level. Their terrain, located on Buffalo Pass Colorado, is conveniently located just 25-min from downtown Steamboat Springs, so they are typically cat skiing by 9:15 am. The skiing terrain is matched to the ability level of the group so it s very important to figure out what snowcat you should be on. Buffalo Pass, their point of operations, annually records some of the deepest snow depths in Colorado. In May of 2011, Buffalo Pass had the deepest snowpack levels ever recorded in Colorado s history. The cold, dry and stormy weather in Steamboat Springs makes for localized orographic uplifting conditions that provide them with extraordinary snow. Combine this snow with terrain that is perfectly matched for all ability levels, then you can understand why they are Steamboat Springs and Northern West Colorado s only snowcat or heli skiing service and have been operating snowcats and guiding powder skiing tours on Buffalo Pass since 1983.
