Our story
A honeymoon in 1960, a mountain in 1970, a ski hill in 1972
Troll Resort has never had a parent company or an outside owner. Lars and Astrid Fossberg built it, and it is still owned and operated by their daughter, Hildur Fossberg Sinclair.
The family
Lars cut the trails. Astrid ran the rest.
Lars and Astrid Fossberg were Norwegian newlyweds when they honeymooned in the Quesnel–Wells area in 1960. They came back to stay in 1964, and in 1970 they bought the slope on Pinegrove Mountain that is now Troll.
Lars cut the trails and built the base chalet, the tables, the benches and the lift towers largely single-handedly — felling the trees and milling them himself. The hill opened in 1972.
Fifty-four winters later, it is still owned and operated by his daughter, Hildur Fossberg Sinclair. The Norwegian half of that story has never been dropped: the resort still runs a Nordic Sweater Day to, in its own words, celebrate our Norwegian heritage.
Still building
The Black T-bar is new for the 2025/2026 season, opening the Pinegrove Mountain expansion — additional terrain consisting mostly of advanced black diamond runs. Fifty-three years after Lars cut the first trail, the mountain is still getting bigger.
Placeholder photo The calendar
Six things Troll does every winter
Deliberately without dates. The only dates the resort publishes for these are last season's, and a wrong date on a website is worse than no date at all.
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Nordic Sweater Day
In the resort’s own words, a day to celebrate our Norwegian heritage. Wear the sweater.
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Mount Everest Challenge
Lap the T-bars until you have climbed the height of Everest. The twelfth annual running.
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Denim Day
Four winters old and still going. Denim on the hill, exactly as it sounds.
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Telefest
A free-heel festival on a mountain that has been serving telemark skiers since 1972.
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Retro Day
One-piece suits, rear-entry boots and straight skis, welcomed rather than tolerated.
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Gold Rush Trail Sled Dog Mail Run
The historic mail run along the Gold Rush Trail passes through — Highway 26 is the Barkerville road, after all.
Where the dates would live
On a live build, each of these would carry this season's date the moment it is set, and drop off the page the day after it happens. That is a five-minute job per event, and it is the difference between an events page that sells tickets and one that quietly ages.
Contact
Talk to the hill
This is a concept site and has no working contact form — please use the real details below, which are the ones published by the resort.
- Lodge, tickets & cafeteria
- 250-994-3200
- Snow shop, rentals & lessons
- 250-994-3352
- Address
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7271 Barkerville Highway
Quesnel, British Columbia Mail: PO Box 4013, Quesnel, BC V2J 3J2
One published email, on another domain
The only email address Troll publishes anywhere is theshop@trollsnowschool.com. It sits on trollsnowschool.com — the snow school's domain — rather than the resort's own website domain.
So every enquiry, from a corporate group booking to a lost glove, arrives in the shop's inbox. And a first-time visitor has to decide for themselves whether an address on a different domain really belongs to the resort.
Observation only, published here exactly as Troll publishes it. Whether to add a second address is the family's call, not ours.
A note on ownership
Troll Resort Ltd. is family-owned. Hildur Fossberg Sinclair is named as the owner on the resort's own About page — "still owned and operated by his daughter, Hildur" — which is why this concept names her. No other staff or family members are named here.