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Kelowna, BC -- Big White Ski Resort Ltd. announced to a live radio audience the installation of the new Snow Ghost Express - a state-of-the-art $7M six-passenger chairlift, that will be constructed at the base of the popular Ridge area. Big White has built its world-renowned reputation on providing guests with some of the shortest lift wait times in the industry, in order to provide the best available on-slope experience. Big White boasts the second-highest skier visits in BC and the third-highest in Canada.

 

OwnerDirect.com:
Big White is located 45 miles from Kelowna in the Central Interior of B.C. It receives an average 24.5 feet of light 'champagne powder' every year and offers outstanding skiing and riding opportunities, with a wide variety of terrain. An eight passenger gondola links the 'Happy Valley' area (ice skating, Alpine Mega SnowCoaster Tubing, Cross Country Skiing, Dogsledding, Snowmobiling, Snowshoeing and lodgings) to the center of the Village. The 'Mega SnowCoaster' Tube Park, currently the largest in North America, has 9 lanes over 900 feet long and two lifts capable of uploading 600 people an hour.
The Big White Kid's Centre, awarded as "#1 programs and facilities for kids" in Canada for the last 3 years, offers a large variety of programs for beginner, intermediate and advanced levels, for children 3 yrs and up. Complimentary helmets are available. There is a Daycare facility for children 18 months and older.

Big White Ski Resort Official Site:
Big White Goes Big
Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
By Tess Weaver
For years, riders at southern BC's Big White suffered through a tedious two-chair ride (two quads, or a quad and a t-bar) to reach the resort's main goods, an 800-vertical-foot stash known as The Cliff. At the same time, jibbers had little to work with and a long hike up the pipe. Relief came this season in the form of the new Cliff lift and the TELUS terrain park. Now, White Heads can access their favorite cliff band with one quick ride and slide rail after rail in the new lift-accessed park.

Forty-five minutes southeast from Kelowna in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, Big White is often referred to as "Big White-Out" due to an occasional dense fog. The key word there is "occasional"—seeing as the resort nabbed Ski Canada's "Best Weather" honors last year. Topping out at 7,606 feet, Big White offers more than 2,500 feet of vert and close to 2,800 acres of terrain dotted with massive bowls, hidden glades and above treeline, wide open steeps. And with more night skiing than anywhere in western Canada, the après scene stays on the hill.

"Though we are proud of the fact that Big White is a family-friendly mountain first and foremost, we have taken some steps to broaden the appeal of our resort to both freeskiers and terrain park skiers and riders," says Big White Media Relations Director Steve Threndyle.

The new Cliff chairlift eliminates a pesky run-out and dramatically reduces lap time in Parachute Bowl, a horseshoe-shaped bowl offering 800-plus vertical feet and more than a hundred acres of terrain. The new lift also eases accessibility to East Peak—an area loaded with cliffs, chutes and big-mountain style lines.

In addition to the Cliff chair, a new double chair services Big White's brand spankin' new TELUS terrain park, offering a 500-foot long World Cup standard Superpipe, a half pipe, a skiercross course and a multitude of rails. Beginner, intermediate and advanced lanes separate Joey from the Whistler/Pemberton crowd sessioning under the stars.

Daily flights from Seattle, Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto offer service to Kelowna. From there, Big White and its sister resort, Silver Star, are less than an hour's drive.

Winter Weekly Events include:----- Mondays - Free Taste of Big White; Tuesdays - Kids Skating Party and free Bingo Night; Wednesdays - Big White Theme night; Thursdays - free Family Carnival Night; Fridays - Family Skate Party; and Saturdays - free Family Carnival Night. Every night is a bonfire and hot chocolate at various spots around the resort too.

Jetsgo and Westjet have just introduced non-stop flights to Kelowna. Flights may be cheaper than you think for a winter getaway.