Cover photo courtesy Stephan Malette If you’ve never made the trek to ski in Nelson, B.C., you wouldn’t be the first. Tucked deep in the Selkirk Mountains, only 45 miles from the U.S. border, it’s more of a hideaway than a destination. But for those in the know, that’s the way they like it. Strewn […]
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Tips for planning a ski vacation to British Columbia mountain resorts during winter 2022, including border-crossing COVID requirements.
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The Josie at Red Mountain Resort elevates the ski in/ski out experience to an unparalleled medley of culinary expression and exquisite style. Though a luxury hotel by designation, the slope-side marvel offers more than empty decadence.
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Cranbrook is an inviting home base for a long, multi-resort ski weekend. From a Cranbrook home base, skiers and snowboarders can choose from two nearby ski areas: Kimberley and Fernie Alpine Resorts.
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The first thing you’ll likely notice as you approach Fernie, BC, from the south on Highway 3, is the abrupt shift in weather. Just outside of town, the highway passes through a tunnel. It’s roughly here that the broad bottomlands of the Elk River jackknife into the triangular valley in which the city sits. Locals
Everything is bigger north of the border. I call it the “Canadian curve.” It generally works like this: a ski run that is rated a blue in B.C. would be a black stateside. A black diamond would likely be a double black, and so on. Think of it as the inverse to the exchange rate, although I suppose in both cases your money is going a bit further—and faster, and steeper.
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RED Mountain Resort in Rossland, B.C., hosts summer trail running and mountain biking camps for for adventure-seeking adults.
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Amongst serious skiers, hearing a ski resort described as “family friendly” is, if not the kiss of death, the kiss of disinterest. The skinny on Kimberley Alpine Resort, in British Columbia’s East Kootenays, is that it’s family-friendly. But watching skier Steve Blake, who grew up skiing this mountain, launch a 60-foot high-speed spread-eagle jump
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Put this ski base camp on your radar this winter By Aaron Theisen for SnowSeekers.ca On the Powder Highway of southeast British Columbia’s Kootenay Rockies, the ski towns—Fernie, Revelstoke, Nelson, Rossland—have as big a reputation as the peaks above them. But there’s only one community within an hour of two world-class Powder Highway resorts, serviced
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Big Ski Hill Meets Small-Town Charm in B.C. By Aaron Theisen for SnowSeekers.ca It’s less than three hours from the Spokane area to Whitewater Resort on the Powder Highway, southeast British Columbia’s celebrated collection of eight ski resorts and dozens of heli- and cat-skiing operations and luxury lodges. But it’s a step back in time,
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