Skiing the Monashee Mountains.
Cassandra and Kerry Penney, a young Canadian couple developing Powder Renegades, a snowcat skiing operation in British Columbia, are the picture postcard of what life in the mountains is all about. Cassandra grew up skiing in Ontario, and Kerry snowboarding in New Foundland. They met while working in Fort McMurray, Alberta, an oil field town about 270 miles north of Edmonton, near the Northwest Territories. Most people get divorced there, Cassandra says jokingly. We actually fell in love there. So, it s kind of a nice story. After their days working in the oil fields, Kerry and Cassandra moved back to Ontario, where their baby Claire was born. It didn t take long for the Penneys to realize they wanted to raise a family in the mountain environment of western Canada. They moved to British Columbia, where Kerry found work as a stone mason. One of Kerry s masonry jobs put him deep in the Monashee Mo