Great Northern Snowcat Skiing Vacations

Brent McCorquodale owner and operator of Great Northern Snowcat Skiing, has been leading visitors through the Selkirk Mountains since the company's inception in 1979. His extensive background of mountain experience, deep powder ski instruction, and understanding of weather and snow conditions comes from many years of working and playing in these mountains and ensures the best possible wilderness skiing experience for our guests. It has been said that his humour is "as dry as the legendary Selkirk powder", but that is just folklore......

"Brent McCorquodale----was a hot young skier from Western Canada who had made his reputation on the hills around Banff. He was looking for something to do - "I'd hid out in school for as long as I could," he says.---Now 27 years later, Mr. McCorquodale's resort is recognized by powder hounds as one of the finest." National Post, February 2005

We are pleased to introduce you to the other members of our guiding team:

	Back again for year number four, Dan Nelson just can’t seem to get enough of this place. Some habits die hard, and chasing deep, dry B.C. powder is one Dan picked up fifteen years ago. He can’t seem to shake it, but that’s all good --- the bottomless snow that fills his “office” helps to reinforce the comforting delusion that, yes, years of “semi-retirement” and hundred-day ski seasons really can be called job training. While somewhere along the way he’s lost familiar ski-bum traits like living in vans, and the fear of shaving, his passion for deep snow and people to ski it with has him excited as ever to show you around all his favorite powder stashes. In the off-season, a recent but temporary return to the evil known as “the city” has Dan grabbing a mountain bike to run for the hills every chance he gets, with girlfriend Lindsay and a loose collection of bad influences known as riding buddies. In addition to certification and training in ski guiding, advanced first aid, mountain rescue, and ski instruction, Dan is Level 2 certified by the Canadian Avalanche Association, and is an Active Member of the CAA. The other half of our lead guiding team, you’ll find him on the mountain every day until the snow’s gone.

	Carole Tanguay is a French Canadian from Ontario. She first visited western Canada in 1995 and fell in love with everything it had to offer. In 2003, Carole moved her life from a secure government job in Ottawa to Fernie, BC. She completed her studies in the Mountain Activities Skills Training program at the College of the Rockies. She has worked throughout Alberta and British Columbia as a whitewater rafting guide, a hiking guide, a ski patroller and a trail guide. She now resides in Rossland, BC with her husband (also a ski guide) and has never looked back! Carole is certified in Wilderness First Aid, and with the CSGA, CAA, and the CSIA. Carole is looking forward to sharing her passion for skiing and the mountains with all the guests at Great Northern.

	Jeff Mitchell was raised in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He moved to the Rocky Mountains of Jasper National Park after high school. He immediately fell in love with the surroundings as well as the mountain culture that coincides. Jeff has spent the last nine years in mountain towns, skiing and climbing. In between the fun, he attended Selkirk College in Castlegar. Jeff is certified in Advanced Wilderness First Aid, CAA Avalanche Operations and has extensive crevasse rescue techniques and excellent map interpretation skills. Jeff is looking forward to enjoying Great Northern and all its wonderful guests.

Brent and his guiding team look forward to sharing their backyard with you this winter.

CAA

Great Northern is a long-time member of the Canadian Avalanche Association. The members of this association strive to achieve the highest degree of professionalism and safety that is required in the helicopter and snowcat industry.