Spearhead Backcountry

SPearhead Guidebook Set

The complete Spearhead Guidebook Set includes the Spearhead Backcountry Atlas and the Spearhead Traverse Field Guide. This is the comprehensive guidebook collection for the Whistler Blackcomb backcountry.

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Find Your Line

The Spearhead Backcountry Atlas is a comprehensive photographic guide to ski and splitboard terrain in the Whistler backcountry, one of Canada’s most popular and most accessible touring destinations.

Spearhead Traverse Online Guide

Unquestionably one of the classic tours of the South Coast, the Spearhead Traverse is a spectacular route linking the Blackcomb and Whistler ski resorts via a horseshoe of glacier-clad alpine terrain. The Spearhead Traverses is a fantastic ski mountaineering adventure that offers incredible scenery and fantastic skiing in a stunning alpine environment. Learn more about the Spearhead Traverse in a comprehensive online guide to the route.

8 Popular Whistler Backcountry SKIING Zones

First time backcountry skiing in Whistler? Just getting familiar with the touring options accessed from Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort? Learn more about 8 of the most popular destinations for turns in the Spearhead backcountry.

Whistler Backcountry skiing

Whistler backcountry ski terrain offers some of the highest value touring in Canada. Both Whistler and Blackcomb resorts provide easy access to high alpine terrain in the Spearhead Range using ski lifts. It is hard to beat riding lifts to 2300 m and being 1 km from world class heli-ski terrain.

Learn more about backcountry skiing in Whistler’s Spearhead range including: seasons, hazards, travel through the resort, trip planning, and parking.

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