New BC Catskiing Outfit Opening With 16,000 Acres of Terrain

A new cat skiing operation, led in part by snowboarder Bjorn Leines and spanning 16,000 acres in British Columbia’s Monashee Mountains, will open this coming winter.

Called Flowline, Leines said he and his co-founders—Sean Beddoe and Yan Bai—want “this to be a place where everybody levels up,” according to Snowboarder.

Part of that goal involved enlisting a stacked crew of mountain hosts, several of whom skiers, not just snowboarders, will recognize. They include Jason Robinson, Olympian Colby Stevenson, Ian and Neil Provo, and Jamie Anderson.

Josh Slootweg will serve as lead guide. He’s spent more than 20 years guiding professionally and worked for a decade as the Supervising Lead Guide with Baldface Valhalla. 

Leines, a snowboarding pioneer, is the CEO of Cardiff Snowcrafts, a ski, snowboard, and splitboard company. Cardiff is a founding partner of Flowline.

Bai previously worked in investment banking and private equity but has since left the corporate world to pursue passion projects and be an entrepreneur, according to Flowline’s website. Beddoe is a real estate developer. Both, like Leines, are diehard snowboarders. 

Snowboarder reported that the idea came together in January 2026 when a former operation went on sale. Leines, Beddoe, and Bai took advantage of the opportunity, and Flowline was born. 

The name, Leines explained, ties into the concept of flow state—the moment in the mountains or during another sport when a participant becomes so deeply focused that they lose track of the passage of time. 

In its first season, Flowline is advertising “intentionally small” 12-person groups.

“Guides ride with the same people all session, terrain is chosen around the snow and the group, and the lodge feels less like accommodation than a shared basecamp,” the website reads. 

The private lodge, perched at 6,300 feet, includes beds, meals, a drying room, a sauna, and the Hellroar Bar, the “room where the day gets replayed, before the stories spill out around the fire.”

Flowline’s tenure stands between Kelowna and Nelson in the Christian Valley. It includes everything from above-treeline skiing to the sort of glades known and loved by regular cat skiers.

Three- and four-day sessions are available at $1,299 CAD a day. You can also privately reserve the lodge and cat, or book a session with the athlete hosts.

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