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Toby Barrett

Manager of Revenue and Guest Experience at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort

Toby Barrett is Manager of Revenue and Guest Experience at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort and President of Tourism Golden — two roles that together make him the person most responsible for how the world understands this corner of British Columbia. Originally from Vancouver, he grew up skiing Blackcomb at Whistler before moving to Golden a decade ago on little more than a tip from a couple of friends who’d already made the same call. He’s never looked back. A lifelong skier turned mountain town advocate, Toby knows the Kicking Horse snowpack the way locals know their own backyard — and has spent years quietly making the case that champagne powder is less a tagline and more a meteorological fact.

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Backcountry Skiing

Kicking Horse: North America’s Wildest Ski Terrain | After Hours Ep. #1

Kicking Horse might be the most insane ski resort in North America. Five alpine bowls. Peaks you bootpack to inside the resort boundary. The most chute skiing of any ski area on the continent — and snow so consistent you can still find powder two weeks after the last storm. We sat down with Powder Matt Mosteller, SVP of Resorts at Resorts of the Canadian Rockies, and Toby Barrett, who runs sales, marketing, and operations at Kicking Horse, to get into all of it: the terrain, the snow science, backcountry access, and why Golden, BC might be the most underrated ski town on the continent. Toby’s read on why Golden still flies under the radar, and Matt’s case for chute skiing over everything else the Rockies offer — that’s the part worth staying for.

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