AST 2 & Early Season Tune Up Course
with Vitamin Ski
Start your season off right by sharpening your terrain assessment and avalanche rescue skills from a cozy cabin at 2200m. The Early Season Tune Up week will cover everything to get you AST 2 certified and then some. Daily ski tours, snowpack/forecast analysis, skin track school, refining your daily process and evening fireside chats. End it all with a cold beer and sauna.
Early Bird Pricing (paid in full) ends Oct 31st.
Join the course for $ 1,750/per person
Regular Pricing from Nov 1st $ 2,250/per person.
Reserve your spot at full price with a $500 Deposit!
Includes:
- 5 days of instruction/mentoring from 2 Local ACMG Guides
(Spoiler Alert: Brendan & Pate) - Nutritious Breakfasts and Dinners
- AST 2 Accreditation
- Lodge Bedding & Amenities
- Daily sauna
Location:
- Fly in and out of Kaslo BC to the infamous Carlyle Lodge
You Need to Bring:
- Your stoke for snow and learning
- Snacks and Lunches
- Warm layers
- Sauna Towel
Bonus Courses:
- Apres 101
- Waxing Party
Come home with your skis waxed, new touring friends and a good understanding of how our snowpack is shaping up for the season!
Hey folks! Heads up Winter 2025 and 2026 has only a few spots left!
For 2027 Bookings please inquire at reservations@kmhbc.com. New guests that want to go Self-Guided please include a resume of experience, certifications and previous trips.
Stake Yer Claim!
Mt Carlyle lodge’s “Powder Claim” sits at 2200m (7200ft for those metrically challenged), in the heart of the Kokanee Range in British Columbia’s World Famous Selkirk Mountains.
Miners of the 1800’s were the first “Powder Prospectors” to realize that these mountains were to become British Columbia’s premier powder skiing destination.
Like those pioneers , stake your claim to Carlyle Lodge’s “White Gold”.
With an average yearly snowfall of over 700 inches per year, The “Powder Motherload” is always close at hand, not another elusive dream.
Unlike those early prospectors, treat yourselves to Mt Carlyle’s comfortable accommodations , heralded cuisine, and endless private powder stashes, set among breath-taking scenery.
Thanks to Milada P. from Slovakia for sending us this quote.
“Whatever degree of skill a skier may possess, they should never forget that their skis are after all only an instrument, a means through which they can enjoy the winter in all it’s glory and ruggedness, can breath clean fresh air , can meet human beings in their true character, and can forget all the petty troubles which beset our so-called civilization.
Otto Schniebs, 1936
These are a few of the reasons why skiing is not merely a sport- For us here at Mount Carlyle …IT IS A WAY OF LIFE.
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