New Glading and Catski Terrain

Island Lake Catskiing has long been known for a diverse terrain mix. High Alpine bowls blend into small sub-alpine trees, then into perfectly spaced gladed tree runs.  Our crew of gladers are also ski guides in the winter, so they have an in-depth understanding of the terrain and needs of our skiing guests.   They spend considerable time strategically planning enhancements to the skiing and boarding experience focusing on new roads, new runs, trail widening, brush-work, more uninterrupted skiing and improved ski outs.

This summer was an exciting glading season with construction of a new access road called “The Woodsmen Road”.  This road will enable better accessibility to existing terrain in the guest favorite Woody’s area and open up new terrain on West Baldy.  The glading crew did just that by creating new skiing terrain in the Woody’s area.  This new ski terrain, “The Silver Glades”, has been named in honor of Island Lake’s Silver Anniversary this year and is comprised of:
            - Vertical of  550m, 1800 ft
            - Slope Angle of sustained 35 degrees
            - Additional Skiing Terrain of over 24 acres
            - West aspect terrain with sustained fall line

Island Lake is very excited about the future glading opportunities provided by the Woodsmen Road allowing us to continue expanding our catski terrain into this outstanding area of Island Lake.   

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