{"id":26779,"date":"2024-01-10T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcaletrail.ca\/?p=26779"},"modified":"2024-01-11T13:05:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T21:05:20","slug":"pints-and-powder-kamloops-has-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcaletrail.ca\/pints-and-powder-kamloops-has-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Pints and Powder: Kamloops Has It All"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the winter, Kamloops feels like a Scandinavian town with outdoor campfires and car racks loaded up with skis and fat bikes.\u00a0<\/span>Added to the hundreds of ski trails, snowshoeing and fat biking, you also have an innovative European-feel beer culture, whose philosophy reflects an unpretentious and funky town.<\/p>\n

\"Harper
Harper Mountain, Kamloops (photo: BC Ale Trail)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It all began with a mountain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When Max Daburger walked throughout the Kamloops mountains in the late ’50s searching for the perfect ski hill, he settled on a mountain that faced the sun. Today, still family-run, Harper Mountain\u2019s<\/span><\/a> 1,400 metres of vertical is one of the few places in the province to offer night skiing. Operating since 1973, the resort is cozy personified \u2014 imagine warming up in front of a wood-burning fireplace with a mug of\u00a0 <\/span>48-year-old secret hot wine.<\/p>\n