jaywbigred
Active member
Hi All!
So, after years of thinking about booking a helicopter or cat skiing trip, and with Warren Miller's famous tagline echoing in my head, I finally decided to spearhead a trip for my 40th birthday in February with a few of my skiing friends.
We settled on cat skiing over heli skiing. We almost all work desk jobs; some folks I spoke with essentially said the benefit of a helicopter over a cat is that you get more vert with the bird. But the advantage of a cat over a bird is that a cat doesn't get grounded during a dump. So we went with the cat, figuring that whatever the max vert is that a cat can get you to in a day will be plenty for our white collar legs.
We researched a bunch of outfits and locations with the help of a travel agent I know who happens to be a skiing fanatic (Swiss by birth I believe) and eventually settled on Park City Powder Cats.
I was wondering if anyone had ever used them (or a similar outfit) before, and, if so, if you had any advice for our group. A few of us have taken cat rides to slack country terrain at Powder Mountain before, but otherwise, no relevant experience for something like this. Everyone is trying to focus hard at the gym to get in shape, and east coast season will start for most of us soon, during which we all have pledged to try to get the legs in a decent spot by February.
We are staying in Park City and skiing 2 days with the cats and 2 days at PCMR (or whatever it is now called) on the off days. It's about a 40 minute drive from our rental to the cat outfit.
Mods, if this is posted in the wrong spot, I apologize. I looked around and didn't see a better spot for it. I also ran searches on the subject and didn't find any on-point threads.
Thanks all!
So, after years of thinking about booking a helicopter or cat skiing trip, and with Warren Miller's famous tagline echoing in my head, I finally decided to spearhead a trip for my 40th birthday in February with a few of my skiing friends.
We settled on cat skiing over heli skiing. We almost all work desk jobs; some folks I spoke with essentially said the benefit of a helicopter over a cat is that you get more vert with the bird. But the advantage of a cat over a bird is that a cat doesn't get grounded during a dump. So we went with the cat, figuring that whatever the max vert is that a cat can get you to in a day will be plenty for our white collar legs.
We researched a bunch of outfits and locations with the help of a travel agent I know who happens to be a skiing fanatic (Swiss by birth I believe) and eventually settled on Park City Powder Cats.
I was wondering if anyone had ever used them (or a similar outfit) before, and, if so, if you had any advice for our group. A few of us have taken cat rides to slack country terrain at Powder Mountain before, but otherwise, no relevant experience for something like this. Everyone is trying to focus hard at the gym to get in shape, and east coast season will start for most of us soon, during which we all have pledged to try to get the legs in a decent spot by February.
We are staying in Park City and skiing 2 days with the cats and 2 days at PCMR (or whatever it is now called) on the off days. It's about a 40 minute drive from our rental to the cat outfit.
Mods, if this is posted in the wrong spot, I apologize. I looked around and didn't see a better spot for it. I also ran searches on the subject and didn't find any on-point threads.
Thanks all!