Dave Pehowich
General Manager

Dave began working at STHS in 1996 after completing his studies in the Thompson Rivers University Adventure Tourism Program. While he was undergoing his ACMG guide training, he was able to work in a few departments at STHS and learn the inner workings of a heli ski company. Dave quickly became one of our integral lead guides, making plans for where to ski in our 500,000 acres of terrain. Over the years, Dave’s leadership and knowledge flourished, which allowed him to progress in his career as our Operations Manager. In March 2022, Dave was appointed General Manager for STHS, following in the footsteps of his mentor, Eriks Suchovs. Fortunately, Dave won’t be spending all of his time behind a desk. You will often see him out in the field guiding guests amongst our incredible terrain.

Dave. P (as we like to call him around here), when not at the office, can be found enjoying some family time, coaching hockey, or fly fishing.

“STHS might have the best terrain around Revelstoke, but most importantly, we have the best team to work with and I look forward every day to sharing moments with all of them. STHS wouldn’t be the same without our diverse team. To our guests, I wish you the best powder turns with us this season!”

Darek Glowacki
Guiding Manager

With STHS for 15 years.

Hometown: Edmonton Alberta via Bielsko Biala Poland

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? The staff members at STHS are what make my job a real pleasure.  Not to mention the incredible skiing opportunities that await those who venture into the STHS tenure.

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? I have been guiding both in summer and winter for over 20 years.  Starting out guiding river paddling trips and moving into mountain safety work which eventually lead me to becoming an internationally certified Mountain Guide. I have been exploring the Canadian Mountain ranges and enjoy most visiting new places that have seen few human footsteps or ski tracks

Tell us about yourself! I am married with two awesome offspring which are just arriving at adolescence. As a family we enjoy all sorts of pursuits in the outdoors rain or shine and have recently taken trips which challenge us as a family unit

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Diamond is my favorite run at STHS

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? Being an immigrant to Canada as a young boy I have somehow managed to stay fluent in Polish and occasionally enjoy guiding in my mother language.

Alex Nadeau
Operations Manager

With STHS for 14 years.

Hometown: Montreal, QC

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? The skiing and the team!

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? 14 years of guiding, mostly around Revelstoke, BC.

Describe your guiding experience: Three years of cat ski guiding prior to working for STHS, and I usually do some ski-tour guiding each year also.

Tell us about yourself! I have a beautiful partner, Mireille, who also worked for STHS. We have two sons, Maurice and Artur. They both love skiing and hockey!

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Alex, of course!

Dave Scott
Guides Supervisor

With STHS for 12 years.

Hometown: Innisfail, Alberta

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? The people I get to work with! What a great bunch. Also skiing in the Selkirks.

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? I have worked as a heliski guide since 1993 and been certified as an IFMGA Mountain Guide since 1996. I have also spent many years alpine guiding and ski touring.

Describe your guiding experience: I moved to Revelstoke in 1989 to work on a government highways avalanche control job. I then worked for CMH from 1993 until 2006.

Tell us about yourself! I have two daughters who are both off at school, leaving my wife Julie and I “empty-nesters’. Missing our girls but looking forward to more sailing and travelling adventures in the off-season!

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Too many! Rad, Primo, Outsolation, Montana, Silver Dollar and more!

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I think about powder skiing almost as much as I think about sailing, and I think about sailing a LOT.

Quinn Castillo
Guide Supervisor

With STHS for 21 years.

Hometown: Revelstoke, BC via Quebec

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Being able to sleep in my own home every night!

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? 25+ years of guiding. I trained mostly while working with the avalanche control team in Rogers Pass.

Describe your guiding experience: Blended! A diverse mix of heli, cat, ski touring, teaching avalanche and guiding courses, as well as industrial avalanche work for the transportation and mining industries.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Mind Boggler (Selkirks North)

Pierre Gagnon
Guide Supervisor

With STHS for 13 years.

Hometown: Revelstoke, BC via Quebec

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Heli skiing in one of the best tenure areas in the world.

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? Guiding since 2005. Trained all over BC and Alberta and well as Europe and South America.

Describe your guiding experience: 13 years heli skiing. Ski touring guide in South America for four seasons. Many ski touring weeks guiding in BC’s great backcountry lodges.

Tell us about yourself! I have a lovely wife named Elodie, and we have two kids, Gael and Fae. We also have a dog called Cimba.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Too many to have a favourite. Tangiers Glacier is spectacular. 1,800m from alpine peak to old growth forest in valley bottom. Outsulation also has amazing tree skiing.

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I learned to ski on a 300m vertical ski hill!

Cece Mortensen
Lead Guide

More details about Cece to come soon!

Joey Vosburgh
Lead Guide

With STHS for 8 years.

Hometown: Revelstoke, BC

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Lots! If I have to pick, I’d say the size and diversity of the terrain. The team is amazing too!

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? I’ve been training and guiding for almost 10 years, mainly in the Revelstoke area. I’d call Rogers Pass and the Monashees my stomping grounds!

Describe your guiding experience: Learning from the crew here at STHS!

Tell us about yourself! I live in Revelstoke with my sweetie, Danyelle, and our two blue heelers, Ben & Ella.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Haven’t rode them all yet, but I’d put Oscar, Kodak (Selkirks South) and Hat Trick (Monashees) on my favourites list.

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I really like winter.

Stephane Poirier
Lead Guide

With STHS for 9 years.

Hometown: Shawinigan, QC

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? All the great people I get to work with and meet.

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? 15+ years of guiding but almost 25 years as a professional in the ski industry.

Describe your guiding experience: I spent many years honing my skills in the Rocky Mountains and have also worked in Northern BC, the Kootenays, New Zealand and Iceland.

Tell us about yourself! In the off-season I enjoy traveling and am a water-sports enthusiast.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Hasli, Unbelievable, the list is endless.

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I like teasing so don’t take it personally!

Bob Shafto
Lead Guide

With STHS for 6 years.

Hometown: Moved from Banff to Revelstoke in 1989.

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? The team of experienced staff make working here so much fun!

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? Guiding for ~25 years, mostly in Alberta and BC.

Describe your guiding experience: I really love making my guiding adventures the guests’ adventures.

Tell us about yourself! I am so lucky to have really nice kids – one of my own and two step kids. They rock and so does their mom!

What’s your favourite run at STHS? All of them!

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I’m just learning how to ski – tips are welcome!

Kenton Lambert
Lead Guide

With STHS for 6 years.

Hometown: Goderich, ON

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? The team and the terrain.

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? I got an introduction to the mountains in the Rockies, but most of my training to become a guide occurred in the Selkirk and Monashee mountains here in BC.

Describe your guiding experience: I have worked for one other catskiing operation, but otherwise STHS is the only mechanized ski operator that I have worked with. I also do some daytrip ski touring and lodge-based ski touring guiding in the Rockies.

Tell us about yourself! My summers are spent road or mountain biking, and winters are spent skiing! I love the change of seasons and activities that complement them.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Outsolation (Selkirk South)

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I would have a very good chance of winning the “Tightest IT Bands In The World” title… I recently took up yoga for some relief.

Andrew McNab
Lead Guide

More details about Andrew to come soon!

Bren Mackenzie
Lead Guide

With STHS 4 years.

Hometown: Vernon, BC

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? The scope of experience and terrain STHS has to offer.

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? 4th year as an apprentice. I started skiing in Rogers Pass when I was in high school; I quickly determined that the drive from the North Okanagan was too long and relocated to Revelstoke. I gained the majority of my experience locally: Selkirks, Monashees and the Rocky Mountains.

Describe your guiding experience: Predominantly ski touring and lodge based, but I’m definitely keen to soar around in a helicopter.

Tell us about yourself! Two youngsters at home, plus their mom Sarah who’s a teacher at Revelstoke Secondary School.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? I am new to the game, but I know some areas of Revelstoke North relatively well. April Chute and the Park Glacier are amazing runs.

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I am typically very hungry after skiing and hope to eventually mass produce a bumper sticker that reads: “I ski for the après”. Maybe it already exists?

Sean Cochrane
Lead Guide

With STHS for 5 years.

Hometown: Revelstoke, BC

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? The endless terrain, and the team is truly awesome!

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? I started my first guiding gig in 2010, then completed the CAA level 2 and ACMG-ASG program in spring 2017. I did my formal training across Western Canada, but previously skied all over the world in competitions such as FIS racing and the Freeskiing World Tour.

Describe your guiding experience: I’ve worked over 250 days in the guiding field (heli/cat/ski-touring) and also coached ski racing and freeskiing prior to that.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Serac, Benedict Glacier & Rose Bowl (Selkirks South)

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I’ve personally planted over 1 million trees in the great province of BC.

Dave Sproule
Lead Guide

With STHS for 14 years.

Hometown: Revelstoke via North Vancouver, BC

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Amazing team and endless terrain with so much variety.

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? Guiding for 15+ years. Trained in the mountains of Western Canada and the USA.

Describe your guiding experience: Started out ski touring, cat skiing and heli skiing at various operations in BC before finally finding the place where I wanted to settle into (STHS). I spent a season heli skiing and ski touring in Mt. Cook, New Zealand. I do some instructional rope courses in the Spring.

Tell us about yourself! My wife and I have been together for 20+ years and have two amazing kids who are into everything! We also have a young dog and an old cat. Oh, and a resident black bear who loves to eat our garden!

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Tree run – Magicline. High alpine – Southern Justice

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I like to have FUN! I also enjoy skiing runs that I’ve personally gladed as part of our off-season tenure maintenance, or new unskied runs that still exist in our very large tenure.

Konrad Scheiber
Lead Guide

With STHS for 1 year.

Hometown: Obergurgl, Austria

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Working with other guides from a variety of backgrounds. And being so close to home!

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? I became a IFMGA Mountain Guide in Austria and have been guiding since 1996

Describe your guiding experience: Most of my career I’ve spent winter in Canada heliskiing and summers guiding in the Alps, Nepal, Africa, and South America.

Tell us about yourself! I live in Revelstoke with my wife Kristen and our kids Eve and Rio.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Whichever one I’m skiing at the time!

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I might yodel sometimes.

Tomo Fujimura
Ski Guide

With STHS for 7 years.

Hometown: Osaka, Japan

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Meeting new people from all over the world and learning every day.

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? Since 2005; Selkirk Wilderness Skiing, Powder Cowboy Cat Skiing, Fernie Wilderness Cat Skiing.

Describe your guiding experience: I mainly work as a hiking guide in the summer and act as a tour guide for Japanese clients in the Canadian Alps and Canadian Rockies on a year-round basis.

Tell us about yourself! I have a 9 year old son, Taiki.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Tangiers Glacier (Selkirks North)

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? Working with STHS the past 7 years and over 8 years with the RMR Ski Patrol, I can share many secret stashes. The Ninja Traverse at RMR was actually one of my projects. Come find me!

Simon Beland
Ski Guide

With STHS for 1 years.

Hometown: Quebec City, QC

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? The energetic team that is motivated to create the best experience for our guests. And the legendary powder…

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? My guiding career started in 2015. I have spent a lot of my time in the Columbia mountains training and playing.

Describe your guiding experience: I have been involved with catskiing, ski touring lodges and more recently in heliski operations, mostly in the Interior mountains of BC but also the Rockies and as far as the Yukon and Alaska.

Tell us about yourself! I live in Revelstoke year round and just love being out in the mountains. We I’m not flying around in a helicopter I try to fly my paraglider as much as I can.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Being a newer guide here, the answer to that question is bound to change as I explore more of the amazing STHS terrain.

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I came to western Canada 9 years ago on vacation. And never left.

Kursten Smith
Apprentice Ski Guide

With STHS for 3 years.

Hometown: Revelstoke is now home (via the UK and Vernon, BC!)

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Learning from the wealth of experience on the guiding team. And the amazing skiing!

How long have you been guiding? Where did you do your training? I’ve been working my way towards my apprentice ski guide certification since 2012. My training has been all over BC, from the Coast to the Cariboos, Monashees, Selkirks and Rockies.

Describe your guiding experience: I started my guiding journey volunteering as a leader for the Ski Club of Great Britain, where I led people around the fabulous ski resorts in France. I got hooked on showing people a good time in the mountains, so I moved back to Canada and started training in the ACMG ski guiding program. Since then I’ve worked at several backcountry ski touring lodges, catski operations, and now heliski providers.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Anything snowy! So most of them. But I do LOVE a good tree run.

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? In the summer time I’m an aspiring ultra runner. One day I’ll enter a race instead of just running silly long distances with what I have on my back! Or maybe I’ll just keep running for the fun of it.

Sean Pickersgill
Apprentice Ski Guide

More details about Sean to come soon!

Hannah Kendall
Apprentice Ski Guide

More details about Hannah to come soon!

Thomas Harding
Apprentice Ski Guide

More details about Tom to come soon!

Donald McFarlane
Apprentice Ski Guide

More details about Donny to come soon!

Victor Labarre
Sales and Marketing Manager

With STHS for 1 year.

Hometown: Tuffe, France. 

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? The team is absolutely awesome and a real pleasure to work with! Also, let’s be honest, the ski in our tenure is the best you can find…

Tell us about yourself, what brought you to Revelstoke? I was on Vancouver Island 3 years ago and got a job in Revy for the summer. I didn’t know anything about the town and came in June when the weather was absolutely perfect. I stayed for a winter season (might as well, right ?) and got Revel-stuck.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Oh, that’s a tough one… By a bluebird day, all the runs in the Serac area, as the views are just incredible. If it’s snowy, bring me into the trees ! I love the tree runs in our Outsulation area.

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I’m a skier, but just started to learn how to snowboard and I might really like it…

Nadine Drysdale
Reservation Manager

With STHS for 4 years.

Hometown: Mansfield / Mt Buller, Australia

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? The amazing team I get to work with every day!

Tell us about yourself, what brought you to Revelstoke? I’ve worked many ski seasons both in Australia and BC. During my first winter in Canada I made a day trip to ski at Revelstoke Mountain Resort – it was a bluebird powder day in March and I absolutely fell in love with the mountains and the town! It took me a couple of years to come back to Revelstoke but I made it my home in 2014 and haven’t looked back.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Any run that I get to ski in our amazing tenure is a good one!

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I have a new Bernese Mountain Dog puppy named Theo – one day he’ll be put to work pulling your lunch and soup around the hotel! Stop by the Reservations office and you might be lucky enough to get a snuggle!

Arleigh Garratt
Reservation Supervisor

With STHS for: 1 year

Hometown: Vancouver, BC

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? The amazing team I get to work with. I also love being able to share my passion for all that Revelstoke has to offer both summer and winter.

Tell us about yourself, what brought you to Revelstoke? We always found ourselves driving many hours to access remote hiking and skiing. In 2009 we decided to move to Revelstoke and have never looked back. We love raising our family here and sharing our love for the outdoors with them as they grow.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Any of them! Though I do really love bluebird skiing in any of our alpine bowls.

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I am a trained jeweller and enjoy creating in gold and silver to include semiprecious gems I collect in our mountains.

Colette Poirier
Office Manager

With STHS for 15 years.

Hometown: Innisfil, ON

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Work is wonderful. My coworkers are amazing and I love the excitement of people going heli skiing. We make the best days of people’s lives, every day!

Tell us about yourself, what brought you to Revelstoke? I love skiing deep pow and climbing rocks. There are plenty of both to explore here in this community, which I fell in love with years ago while making trips from Alberta to climb in Skaha or Squamish. Eventually my partner and I decided to make the move here, get married, buy a house and have some little people. The rest is blissful history!

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Any of the runs our incredible guides have taken me on have been unforgettable. I love skiing in our Selkirk Mountains!!

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? Growing up I had a 6ft iguana as my pet. As an adult I’ve traded lizards for dogs and have one named Biner. Now we have a bearded dragon “Chris”, named after the incredible professional climber Chris Sharma

Cory Beisel
Operations Technician Manager

With STHS for 20 years.

Hometown: Grande Prairie, AB

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? Definitely the skiing and the welcoming, supportive team. Plus my role is very diverse – every day is different so it makes it very interesting.

Tell us about yourself, what brought you to Revelstoke? I love white water, frozen or not. I’ve being guiding rafts for 14 seasons, so when the wife and I where looking to move to BC we started checking out Golden to get on the world-renowned Kicking Horse River. But my wife got a great job here in Revelstoke, so we moved here in 2006 and have been playing on the Illecillewaet River in the summers and STHS in the winters ever since!

What’s your favourite run at STHS? FFT or Tumbledown (Selkirks North)

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I took up paddle boarding white water !

Iannick Cyr Michaud
Retail and Guests Services Manager

With STHS for 4 years.

Hometown: Ottawa, Ontario

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS?The skiing, the team and of course helping every guest have their best day ever. But the skiing is certainly on top.

Tell us about yourself, what brought you to Revelstoke? Like many people, I came out here for the Winter and the mountains, but ended up staying for the Summers. Outdoor is where I belong, and living and working in Revelstoke allows me to get outdoors and see incredible sights each and every day.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Glitter

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? If I’m not working at Selkirk, you can find me managing Blanket Creek Provincial Park during the warmer months.

Eriks
38 years and millions of turns

Andre Normandeau
Pioneer

Sylvain Hebert
Pow Expert

Sylvain guided at STHS from 1991 to 2020, although he spent a few seasons in between, guiding and doing avalanche forecasting contract work at different locations in BC, Quebec and South America. He has always said that the STHS tenure has some of the best snow and terrain anywhere! He continues to guide ski touring clients around Revelstoke. He’s skied so much pow during his career that he now gets a kick out of getting first tracks on the groomers at the Nordic ski club

Rhonda Brunetti
STHS Legend

With STHS for 31 years.

Hometown: Revelstoke, BC

What do you enjoy most about working at STHS? The people! The team I worked with and the guests that come ski with us, year after year.

Tell us about yourself, what brought you to Revelstoke? Moved to Revelstoke in 1977 with my family when my father got a job at the Revelstoke Dam.

What’s your favourite run at STHS? Flying around Ghost Peak has always been a favorite.

Fun fact you’d like to share with guests? I came to work at STHS for a 2 week stint back in 1989… And I haven’t left since!

John L
Travelling the world

After 25 years guiding heliskiing around British Columbia including all the neighboring areas I finally joined the Selkirk Tangiers Team. I felt privileged to work and ski with such a talented group of professional guides. I spent 8 seasons exploring this amazingly ski tenure and have just had a taste! Just remember the snow is always a little deeper in Standfast Creek!