Is Kicking Horse the Best Ski Mountain in North America? | After Hours by 57hours Ep. #1

“Powder Matt” Mosteller is Senior Vice President for Resorts of the Canadian Rockies, a storyteller, ski bum, and outdoor adventurer whose writing has appeared in POWDER Magazine and major publications across North America, earning recognition as one of Canada’s top travel writers by Postmedia. He played a central role in building the identity of the Powder Highway, the British Columbia ski terrain he lives along and is named after, and once outran a mother grizzly bear and two cubs down an untracked couloir in Glacier National Park to live and write about it.

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.

Viktor Marohnić is the CEO and co-founder of 57hours. Born in Croatia, he moved to New York in 2010 and found his way into the mountains through a guide. He’s been chasing that feeling ever since — as a skier, climber, runner, and kitesurfer. Kicking Horse was on his list for years. This January, he finally made it.