Dream Trip: Ski Road Trip to the Powder Highway, U.S., Canada

The holy grail of big-mountain skiing has two basic ingredients: huge mountains and a whopper of a storm. But credit Lynsey Dyer’s innate ability to dream big for coming up with something even better.

“I would take off in a plush-out RV with ten best friends and just follow where the snow goes, from Jackson Hole, up through Washington, into Canada, and along the Powder Highway,” says Dyer.

In southeast British Columbia, the Powder Highway is the veritable epicenter of North American snow sports with some 64 ski operators—including eight alpine resorts, nine heli-ski operators, 16 snowcat guides, and 21 backcountry ski touring outfitters—along 680 miles of remote, snowy highway. “Of course the bus would have a driver and a cleaning crew, so no one ever has to clean up, and we’d have our spiritual gurus and massage therapists with us,” she says. “We could launch our private helicopter wherever the snow is and maybe the bus would even turn into a snowcat.” The grand finale: corn skiing and salmon fishing in Alaska, after which Dyer would fly down to her top-secret Mexico surf spot for the summer—the bus, naturally, has wings.

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