Great Northern Powder Guides

Whitefish, Montana

Mountain Range Ability
Whitefish Advanced to Expert

Discover Montana's Powder at Its Best!

Great Northern Powder Guides creates a unique skiing experience for clients by having access to both north and south facing slopes of usable terrain. With Great Northern Powder Guides the guests have the opportunity to ski eight to ten powder runs daily with each averaging 800 vertical feet of Trees, burned over areas, logged, open, glades, pillows, rocks, chutes… you name it, Great Northern has it.

The guides lead guests to sunny morning runs on south slopes and they finish out the day in the afternoon shade of north facing runs. Great Northern currently utilize sixteen square miles of the Stillwater State Forest for the backcountry ski tours. The diversity of our terrain affords us with the limitless fresh powder that makes skiing with Great Northern Powder Guides the experience of a lifetime.

Retired pro skier Jay Sandelin is behind the creation of Great Northern Powder Guides. "It had been a lifelong dream of mine to launch a backcountry skiing company". When Jay saw that Northwest Montana lacked a premier cat skiing operation, he recognized the opportunity to fulfill his dream right in his own backyard. Great Northern Powder Guides want to share with their clients the uniqueness that Montana's wilderness has to offer. They feel that Montana is unlike any other state in the lower 48 due to its preservation of open wilderness that is accessible to the public and private vendors. The founders wanted to give visitors to the area an easy cost-effective way to access Montana's pristine Stillwater State Forest.

The mission of Great Northern Powder Guides is to provide the clients with a safe, high standards environment to experience backcountry skiing adventures. All of the guides that work with Great Northern Powder Guides are specially trained experienced skiers. Great Northern Powder Guides wants to make sure that the memories that clients create with us will last a lifetime.

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