Canadian Mountain Holidays

Silvertip Lodge is located on the shores of Quesnel Lake. The lodge is rustic, simple, and comfortable. Next to the lodge are a private cabin (with two beds and a private bathroom) and the spa building. As a ski destination, Silvertip is unrivalled for remoteness. Silvertip Lodge accommodates private groups of up to 10 Heli-Skiers.

The last area to be added to the CMH empire is also the most unusual. In the late nineties a private fishing lodge called Silvertip on the eastern edge of the 100-kilometer-long Quesnel Lake caught Mark Kingsbury’s eye – for good reason. Quesnel Lake is the deepest fjord lake in the world and the double A-frame lodge is located at the end of the most remote arm of Quesnel, where it reaches deep into the Cariboo mountains from the western side of the range. Guide Anjen Truffer describes the area “for people who are looking for the true Canada – this is it.”

As a ski destination, Silvertip is unrivalled for remoteness, but it is sandwiched between Wells Gray Provincial Park and Cariboo Mountains Provincial Park, and thus a lot of the most appealing terrain in the area is off limits to heli-skiers. When Kingsbury purchased the lodge to use as a heli-ski base, his hope, according to other guides who followed the acquisition, was that some day the terrain would be opened to heli-skiing.

From Bugaboo Dreams by Topher Donahue