Ski Chalet : Burnie Glacier Chalet

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Ski Chalet Details

The Burnie Glacier Chalet sleeps eleven guests, two guides, and a cook. It offers guided and catered trips as well as chalet rentals. Access is by helicopter in the winter and by float plane in the summer. The lodge is built from local timber and sits beside the toe of the massive Burnie Glacier at the edge of an ancient forest.

The lodge has two rooms for couples or families and two rooms with three and four beds. Bedding and linen are supplied. There is a wonderful cedar sauna. Power is supplied by solar panels and a gas generator. Internet access is wireless throughout the lodge through a satellite system.

All this is pretty standard in most places, but the Burnie Glacier Chalet is in true wilderness. No roads, no power lines, no ski lifts are within the new Tazdli Wiyez Bin provincial Park. The caribou and grizzly bears, the mountain goats and moose and wolves are protected in this lush habitat of ancient trees below blue glaciers.

A trail network allows easy access to the alpine in the summer. The ski mountaineering on the deep snow of this coastal range must be expereinced to be believed.

Rental Facilities

Lighting: electricity supplied by solar panels and a generator.

Beds: single and double beds with comforters and linen.

Bedrooms: two with double beds, two with three and four beds.

Kitchen: Amish built wood cookstove and first class untensils.

Water: from a clear mountain stream.

Phone: radio phone.

Internet: wireless system throughout the lodge

Sauna: wood fired.

Bathroom: three stall composting outhouse.

Chalet Food

If you know the food in alpine huts, you will be pleasantly disappointed. We provide great food, and lots of it. You will often find wild Pacific salmon on the menu. And there is a great packed lunch for the days on the slopes.

Ski Resort and Chalet Location

Ski Chalet Burnie Glacier Chalet is in Smithers, Canada

The Burnie Glacier Chalet is located in true wilderness, far from the nearest road, railway, ski lift or mall. No bus stops, but soaring glaciated peaks. No shopping centre, but ancient forests. No cinemas, but technicolor sunsets and Northern Lights. Access is by helicopter, float plane or a two day hike.

In this untouched habitat, caribou, mountain goats, bears, wolves and mountain goats thrive. They will remain undisturbed as this place is now protected as a Class A Provincial Park.

And there is no one besides you, your friends and your guides in this entire mountain range.

The ski mountaineering in this are is unparalleled for its deep and reliable snow from December through May, itls long and interesting runs, and the challenge of rarely climbed summits. In the summer, mountain hiking through incredible wildflowers and challenging alpine climbing call mountain enthusiasts.

A UIAGM Mountain Guide, Christoph Dietzfelbinger, runs the operation.

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