Big White, Canada - BC

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Big White summary

It's the Snow" is our motto at award-winning Big White Ski Resort! Each year, seven meters (24.5 feet) of Mother Nature’s finest, driest champagne powder blankets over a hundred immaculately groomed cruising runs and spacious alpine bowls. You will instantly feel the difference that natural snow makes as you carve turns on perfectly buffed trails, float through the powder bowls, and slalom through the "snow ghosts" – our signature snow clad glades. In TELUS Park at Big White, skiers and snowboarders can ride the rails, 'drop in' to the Olympic sized super pipe, or jump and spin off a whole variety of natural and man-made features. Big White's romantic village boasts Canada’s most modern and luxurious ski-in ski-out resort properties, with room for over 17,000 guests. Hotels, luxury apartments, vacation homes and even themed log cabins, (most with private outdoor hot tubs) dot the snowy slopes. The Village Centre Mall is the hub for all Big White activity and fun. During the day, it houses the ski school, rental shop, main ticket office, Activities Desk, ski shops, and Beano's café. Happy Valley – a short gondola ride from the Village Centre – is where you'll find Big White's famous après-ski programs – many of which are free! Don't miss the Video Nights, Bingo Night, Big White Idol, karaoke, Nintendo Wii night, ice skating and pond shinny (ice hockey) on Canada's largest high altitude skating rink, dogsled tours (weekends only), the Mega Snow Coaster tubing park, and guided snowmobile tours – we even have 'Mini Z's' for younger riders. With a newly expanded runway and an international arrivals lounge being constructed at Kelowna International Airport, flying to Big White will be even easier than before. We can have you out of the airport and up to Big White in an hour's time.

Resorts close to Big White include: Silver Star (66 km), Mt Baldy Ski Area (73 km), Apex Mountain (88 km), Red Mountain Resort (109 km), Whitewater (128 km),

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	Trails (Pistes): 118	Halfpipes: 1
	Summit: 2319 m	Toplift: m
	Beg: 18% Int: 54% Adv: 28%	Terrain Parks: 1
	Vertical Drop: 777 m	X-Country: 25 km
	Lifts: 16 (10 chair lifts, 5 surface lifts)	Snowmaking: No
	Gondolas / Cable Cars: 1	Slopeside accom.: Y
	Restaurants: 17	Acres of ski: 2765
	Bars: 8	Nearest Airport: Kelowna
	Nearest Train: Kelowna	Info phone: +12507653101 \| Big White Resort Info Website

Visitor Reviews of Big White

Bromley Parsons from CANADA writes:

Awesome as the Canadians say! And they are not wrong.
Went to BW for 10 days in Feb 2007 and had a fantastic time.
The kids really enjoyed ski and board school and came on so quickly.
The terrain is very diverse, something for nearly everyone, great cruisers and excellent tree boarding. The telus pack is the best I have seen, the place is a boarders paradise. The lifts are so efficient, slopes very quiet mid week, almost had the place to ourselves.
Tubing was great fun and ice skating too.
I can recommend the repair shop in the mall, they hand waxed my board for only $16 (£7) whilst I waited. The conditions were so good that my board came back good as new, no damage at all, maybe I wasn't riding her hard enough, although with 2 cracked ribs ( from the ice skating,never again) I was taking it easy.
Had 3 days of fog, 3 days of snow and 3 blue bird days with the finest views in BC. A local told me that these stats are pretty normal for BW. Although, the mild temperatures -4 to +1, were bringing in a little more fog than usual. But it made the place very comfortable to ski especially for the kids. My advise would be to take some flat light gogs, yellow lens.
Try the soup at the market for lunch, it warms the cockles of you heart, if you have anything more, share with a friend or you will come home obese, like the Canadians' southern neighbours.
Stayed at the Snowbird Lodge, 2 bedroom condo that you could get lost in, with a private hot tub. Wow.
A long journey from the UK but well worth it. I will be going again, definitely.

2007-02-20

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