Question about road trip through interior BC - chasing powder vs book lodging early?
Planning a trip to interior BC to ski with my dad from 2/22 - 3/2, that's a total of 7 days of skiing.
The only thing we have booked currently is a day of cat skiing with Big Red Cats on 2/26. Right now I'm thinking I want to fly into Spokane (Southwest points!) and chase powder for a few days and not do anything with lodging until we see where the best snow will be. The only thing I would go ahead and book is lodging in Rossland the night before our day with BRC. I've read in other threads, some of which are several years old, that you can find lodging in any of the interior BC ski towns (Nelson, Rossland, Fernie, Golden, & Revvy, etc.) with pretty short notice at this time of the year (late Feb). Is that still true?
I've also contemplated just going ahead and planning to split time between Red and Whitewater so as to reduce driving and have less things to have to fool with when we're out there. I'm really interested in making it to Kicking Horse or Revy but feel like I'd be trying to get to too many places in too few days if I start splitting it up that much.
Info on us: I like steep alpine and trees, particularly like places that have lots of small cliffs and terrain that allows for playful riding + the ability to scare myself a bit several times a trip...obviously the more fresh snow the better.
My dad will ski blacks and some doubles during good conditions but if it's melt refreeze conditions or filled with large moguls he's mostly sticking to groomed slopes.
What do the mags say? Where should we head? Book lodging now or wait till the week of?
P.S. - In case it's useful to someone in the future searching this same topic, I've done a good deal of searching and, amongst other threads, I found the two below the most helpful and read them in their entirety:
https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...-Fernie-advice
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https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...oke-vs-Red-Mtn