Red Mountain

The Mountain

Red Mountain enjoys a legendary status among North America's hard-core skiers. Opened in 1947, Red is one of Canada's oldest resorts and has a reputation as a powder heaven with some of Canada's most challenging terrain.

This is a mountain that will push even the most experienced skiers – Red produces more national team racers than anywhere else in the country! It may not be well known amongst Europeans but in Canada, Red is renowned for deep snow, exciting terrain and absolutely zero crowds.

"Fantastic! Red has the sort of terrain I was looking for. Lots of challenging runs but also great groomers for practicing technique."

Harriet Rafferty, Red Mountain 11-Wk Ski Course

The Terrain

The resort incorporates two mountain peaks, Red and Granite, both skiable 360 degrees around, offering an awesome variety of lines down gladed tree meadows, wide open groomed pistes and award-winning steeps. The skiing and snowboarding here is fun – there are banks, gullies, trees and cliff drops all over the resort as well as a terrain park and a friendly laid back mountain restaurant. There are extensive backcountry options available offering easily assessable fresh powder when the resort has finally been tracked.

Although renowned for its steeps, Red also has a mellow side with half of its terrain ranked as intermediate and has plenty of open bowls ideal for perfecting your powder technique. Because of Red's location in central British Columbia the mountain is renowned for its crowd-free slopes, which means there are plenty of fresh lines to enjoy.

"Aficionados claim this funky, old-fashioned cult resort provides some of the most exciting and challenging tree and meadow skiing in Canada. Hard-up, would-be heli-skiers adore it – a day in this part of the Kootenays is like a day's heli-skiing without the helicopter."

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