Lake Louise vs Kicking Horse

Mr.May

Mr.May

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What do you guys thing is better?¿ Lake Louise or Kicking Horse?

I personally go for Lake Louise ski hill

 
It really depends on what you want to ski. Kicking horse doe3snt even have a park most of the time but has the burliest faces and chutes imaginable. even the most experienced experts would have a challenge there. Lake louise is more of a family hill. Of course, yes, it does have some challenging terrain, but not to the extent of the horse. on the plus side louise has a decent park so yay!
 
yep, but kicking horse doesnt always have the nicest snow so it can be risky sometimes but theres some deffinate crazy terrain there. id say dont go to to kicking horse if you dont like a challenge
 
yeah i have gone to both, and they both are sweet. kicking horse is good if theres good snow, the terrain is absolutely awesome, and the sidecountry is soime of the best in north america. louise has good stuff and a decent park, and some fun chutes too, but it doesnt get much natural sno. they have a great snow making system, which makes up for it thogugh.
 
hands down kicking horse. and for not always having fresh snow, it does, you just have to find it. there is a set of ridiculous inbounds pillows that are hidden in thick trees. its tough to know how to get there and ever tougher to get out. plus the slack country is amazing. short short hikes for endless bounty. The horse is more enjoyable in my mind, but louise is so much fun as well. both of them rape sunshine.
 
Kicking Horse is freakin' awsome for pow, and Louise has a really nice park, and some decent pow if you know where to go. The only thing I dislike about Kicking Horse is the gondola.
 
i love the horse, but for me, there is too much transport skiing. ive said this before and il say it again for the purpose of this thread, they were fucking stupid not building a mid station on that gondola. top half of the horse is possibly the most insanely fun place in the whole of western canada, but to get back up there, it takes a long voyage across flat slopes to the bottom of the mountain, then a looong gondola ride back up the top.

so for me, the horse can get a bit frustrating. add to this that there is no park, and for me, id have to say louise. the back side of louise is fucking awesome, and there is great hiking nearby, so although its not as great a freeriding mountain as the horse, it has a bit more to offer

my vote goes to louise
 
The Horse gets more snow and plenty of gnarly terrian, as does Louise.

I also dislike the gondola, but they say they have plans for expantion. When is that going to happen?
 
You can tell which people are used to skiing in the midwest/east or something because they talk about how one hill is good for "pow". If 30cm falls in both places, what's the difference? Do you mean the quality of the snow is better? Because it rains at KH more than Lake Louise (although not as much as Fernie still).
 
Kicking Horse = More fresh stuff, natural terrain, no park

Lake Louise = A bit of both, but not really that great natural terrain
 
Louise is a giant people trap... and a funnel.

what the fuck is up with that gondola? How does that make any sense at all?
 
I hear Nakiska is fucking unreal for terrain, but if you have to go somewhere else Louise is the most rad-assed place on earth. I personally would never go to Kicking horse, the lack of park is unbearable, and the fresh snow makes my no poles progression difficult.
 
The only good thing about nakiska are the glades.

theres 1 double black and its icy as hell.

i think sunshine is pretty rad ass. and why do you really need park at kicking horse?

shouldnt you be shreddin pow?
 
are u guys walking? it usually only takes me about 15-25 mins of driving to get from shine to louise

and louise has some really good big terrain as well, just not many people no about it or how to get to it, and the park is really good as well, but the horse on a good snow day is really fun!
 
my dad gets scarred on that two lane highway going to louise so he drives really cautiously.

and you've got like a golf with nitrous injections and twin turbo exhaust
 
Louise is sweet awsome big lines and park and fairly impresive snow...never rode kickin hoarse thoe so cant compare
 
Louise has awesome big mtn type terrain, you must be blind and/or an idiot not to see it. Either go off the backside of summit or anything off Paradise. This is all in bounds too. The frontside has the trees where Eagle used to be (I agree the gondola is HORRIBLE, I've ridden it once) and Summit/TOTW has some good trees. But really, in the morning just take Glacier to TOTW and ski off Summit/Paradise laps all day, it never gets old (unless it's a white out). Larch has some decent trees too.

15min from Sunshine to Louise? It's 49.8km from the turnoff to the LL parking lot, so you'd have to be going 199.2km/h to get there in 15min, 149.4km/h for 20min and 120km/h for 25min (including the access road). It's pretty hard to do more than 120 average on the 2 lane unless you are a dangerous idiot.
 
if you go to louise i recommending not going to the gondola b/c they dont know how to put twin tip skis in (put in seperate slots) so go to glacier express then to top of the world and stay up top or on the back sid b/c of all the scared tourists that come through
 
I've been lucky enough to go to both, and my vote goes to Kicking Horse.

Simply put, it was the best ski hill i've ever riden on.
 
If you can hit kicking horse on a pow day it's absolutly epic. The problem is most of the good terrain get's skied up by the end of the day, unless you know the secret spot I'm not letting anyone in on. Not that it's got challenging lines or anything, but honestly it must have not been skiied in over a month there was so much pow
 
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