Best Cat Skiing - Powderhounds Ratings
The Powderhounds awards for the "Best Cat Skiing in the world" are based on cat skiing reviews conducted by the Powderhounds (about 40 cat ski operations). You can check out our cat skiing ratings for more detail, and also see the top cat skiing as
rated by the readers of Powderhounds.com. Not surprisingly, it's many of the Canadian cat ski outfits that come up trumps overall and with respect to safety, whilst some of the Japan cat ski operators have the primo snow.
Best Overall Cat Skiing
This award is based on
all of the factors that we rate, which includes terrain for different abilities, guiding, safety, value, frills, accommodation (where applicable), the snowcat, and the powder.
- Selkirk Snowcat Skiing
- Big Red Cats
- Keefer Lake Cat Skiing
Other top rated overall BC cat skiing operators are
White Grizzly,
Steamboat Powdercats and
Skeena Cat Skiing. For more detail, check out the
Powderhounds cat skiing ratings. Also see our various cat skiing reviews for detail on each company.
Best Cat Skiing for Powder Hounds
This award is all about the
powder skiing and
snowboarding. It only takes into account our terrain ratings (excluding the rating for strong intermediate terrain) and the powder rating.
- Selkirk Snowcat Skiing
- Valhalla Powdercats
- Park City Powdercats
Other highly rated snowcat skiing operations for powder hounds are
White Grizzly,
Keefer Lake, and
Steamboat Powdercats.
Other Top Cat Skiing Awards
Best Snow:
Rising Sun Cat Skiing,
Weiss Cat Skiing,
Iwanai Cat Skiing
Overall Terrain:
Selkirk Snowcat Skiing,
Steamboat Powdercats,
Park City Powder Cats
Alpine/Sub-Alpine Terrain:
Arpa Cat Skiing,
Park City Powder Cats,
Skeena Cat Skiing
Best Tree Skiing:
Selkirk Snowcat Skiing,
White Grizzly
Best Canada Cat Skiing for Intermediates:
Weiss Cat Skiing,
Jyrgalan Cat Skiing
Best Advanced Terrain:
Arpa Cat Skiing,
Big Red Cats,
Selkirk Snowcat Skiing
Best Expert Terrain:
White Grizzly,
Big Red Cats
Guiding:
Shimamaki Cat Skiing,
Rising Sun Guides Cat Skiing
Best Snowcats:
Keefer Lake Cat Skiing,
Park City Powder Cats
Safety:
White Grizzly,
Big Red Cats,
Selkirk Snowcat Skiing
Frills:
Steamboat Powdercats,
Great Northern Powder Guides,
Iwanai Cat Skiing
Lodging:
Keefer Lake Lodge,
Island Lake Lodge
Value:
Jyrgalan Cat Skiing,
Great Northern Snowcat Skiing,
Skeena Cat Skiing
Unique Experience:
Jyrgalan Cat Skiing,
Karkara Cat Skiing,
Arpa Cat Skiing Chile