Placeholder photo Quesnel · British Columbia · Since 1972
Fifty-four winters.
One family.
527 metres of vertical, a six-kilometre longest run and four T-bars, forty minutes east of Quesnel — cut out of Pinegrove Mountain by a pair of Norwegian newlyweds and still run by their daughter.
An adult season pass is $720 if you buy it before 30 September. From 1 October to 30 November the discount drops to 10%, and after that it is gone.
- 1,729 ft
- Vertical drop
- 6 km
- Longest run
- 4
- T-bars
- 54 yrs
- Family-run
527 m
top to bottom
Yellow, Red, Silver, Black
opened 1972
Troll does not publish a run count, so this concept does not state one. Everything above is the resort's own published figure.
Sample data — demo only
Today at Troll
How a live snow report could read — updated each morning by staff.
Open today
- New snow
- 14 cm overnight
- Base depth
- 162 cm mid-mountain
- Temperature
- -9 °C at the chalet
- T-bars turning
- 3 /4 Silver runs weekends
- Red T-bar Turning
- Yellow T-bar Turning
- Terrain park Open
- Cafeteria Open
Troll is closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and Cariboo cold snaps can change a day at short notice. A real version of this block would be the single place staff post that news, instead of it living only on social media.
Why Troll
Built by hand, and never sold
Placeholder photo Four T-bars, and a new one on Pinegrove
Yellow serves the bunny hill, Red opens the whole mountain and Silver runs weekends and holidays. Black is new for the 2025/2026 season and opens the Pinegrove Mountain expansion — additional terrain, mostly advanced black diamond runs.
Placeholder photo Lars cut the trails himself
Lars Fossberg felled the trees, milled them, and built the base chalet, the tables, the benches and the lift towers largely single-handedly. The hill opened in 1972 and is still owned and operated by his daughter, Hildur.
Placeholder photo Five and under ski free. So do Super Seniors.
A full day is $80 for an adult, $30 for a junior aged 7 to 12 and $15 for a six-year-old. Children five and under are free, and so is anyone aged 80 or over. That is a family hill, priced like one.
The discount is live right now
Buy before 30 September and the winter costs $720
Troll publishes a 20% discount on season passes bought before 30 September, and 10% from 1 October to 30 November. That takes a $900 adult season pass down to $720 — the same as the published ten-day pass, for the whole winter instead of ten days.
- Before 30 Sept
- $720
- 1 Oct – 30 Nov
- $810
- After that
- $900
20% off · adult
10% off · adult
full price · adult
$900 and the two discount percentages are Troll's published figures; $720 is the resort's own 20% number. $810 is simply $900 less the published 10%. Troll publishes a season pass price for adults only — other categories are not listed, and this concept will not guess at them.
See all published prices
Placeholder photo The winter
Five days a week, December to April
The season typically runs from early December to early April, five days a week, 9:00am to 3:20pm. Troll is closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and the kitchen opens at 8:30am for everyone who drove up from Quesnel in the dark.
Hours & directions →-
Norwegian heritage
Nordic Sweater Day
The resort’s own words: celebrate our Norwegian heritage. Wear the sweater, ski the hill.
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12th annual
Mount Everest Challenge
Lap the T-bars until you have climbed the height of Everest. Twelve years and counting.
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4th annual
Denim Day
Four winters in and still running. Denim on the hill, exactly as it sounds.
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Telemark
Telefest
A free-heel weekend on a mountain that has been serving telemark skiers since 1972.
Dates are deliberately left off. The only dates Troll publishes for these events are last season's, and a concept site should not put a wrong date in front of a customer.
It started with a honeymoon in 1960
Lars and Astrid Fossberg, newly married and newly Norwegian-Canadian, honeymooned in the Quesnel–Wells area. They came back in 1964, bought the Pinegrove Mountain slope in 1970, and opened Troll two years later.