Talk:List of ski areas and resorts in Canada

Make a comparison page?

Might be a nice to start a new page to compare things like altitude, vertical, lifts, average yearly base, terrain size, runs, stats, etc.

That can be done here easy enough with the time/data to create it; if you want to do it yourself, copy over the table templates from pages like List of Indian Reserves in Canada, or List of ships in British Columbia, and adjust the field-headings and input the data, and voila there you have it (sortable, too).Skookum1 (talk) 23:42, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Don't delete...

A category is only useful for collecting existing articles. It does not help editors, such as myself, who may be looking for missing articles to create. Maury 18:43, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

More listings probable

I just added quite a few that I knew about, and fixed titles on others; looking around, and knowing there were more, I found Ecosign Ltd's listing of places it's worked on the design of (not all ski resorts, though); some were never built like Cayoosh or Powder Mountain ubt here's the list for ref/googling purposes, with non-ski area items removed, though unbuilt ones remain:

• Apex Alpine Resort, Penticton
• Big White Ski Village, Kelowna
• Blueberry, Golden - now Kicking Horse
• Brent Snow Mountain, Penticton - ??
• Brohm Ridge, Squamish
• Burke Mountain, Vancouver - closed SFAIK
• Canadian Snowmobile Adventures, Whistler - this kind of thing and snow-cat operations aren't limited to Whistler, by any means; very common in the North Thompson and Kootenays and I think around Kelowna....
• Canoe Mountain, Valmount - proposal suspended (lack of capital and/or govt support)
• Cayoosh Resort, Lillooet - nixed environmental& native concerns, still on the boil
• Cobble Hill, Vancouver Island - ??
• Coquihalla Pass, Hope
• Cypress Bowl, West Vancouver
• Fairmont Ski Hill, Fairmont Hot Springs
• Farnham Glacier National Training Centre, Invermere - prob should ahve write up anyway, though not commercial area
• Fernie Alpine Resort, Fernie - Fernie Snow Valley now right?
• Forbidden Plateau, Courtenay - closed
• Green Mountain, Courtenay - ??
• Hemlock Valley, Harrison Mills
• Hudson Bay Mountain, Smithers - now Ski Smithers
• Jumbo Glacier, Invermere - on proposal books, big environemntal hoo-hah
• Kimberley Ski & Summer Resort, Kimberley
• Kitsumkalum Ski Area, Terrace - moved to Shames Mountain
• Kicking Horse Resort, Golden - same as Blueberry - or not?
• Mad River Nordic Center, Whistler - if we start listing Nordic centres (x-country) then 100/108 Mile, Fountain Valley, lots of others all over
• Manning Park, Hope - needs separate article from park
• Mayne Island, Gulf Islands - REALLY???
• Morning Mountain, Nelson - Proposal? which mountain (Morning Mtn not geographic name, must be mktg name)
• Mount Arrowsmith, Port Alberni - still open?
• Mount Baldy, Oliver - access if via Rock Creek, as on the list; you can see it from Oliver...but Osoyoos is closer by road, so's Kelowna...
• Mount MacKenzie, Revelstoke - now Revelstoke Mountain Resort
• Mount Seymour, North Vancouver
• Mount Washington, Courtenay
• Panorama Resort, Invermere
• Paradise Valley - where??
• Predator Ridge Golf Resort, Kelowna - Predator Ridge has lifts? It's not even that high is it? Or just rooms for Big White?
• Powder King, Pine Pass
• Powder Mountain, Whistler (not that it sees itself as Whistler, or that Whistler wants it to happen...)
• Quilchena Ranch Resort, Quilchena - x-country only? (no mtns at Quilchena)
• Red Mountain, Rossland
• Salmo Ski Area, Salmo
• Shames Mountain, Terrace
• Silver Star, Vernon
• Silvertip, Hope - closed
• Sun Peaks Resort, Kamloops
• Troll Resort, Quesnel
• Tumbler Ridge, Tumbler Ridge - community hill?
• Valemount, Valemount - same as Canoe Mountain, no? or does it have community lfits? If so doesn't also Blue River and Clearwater? Or is Clearwater Harper Mountain?
• Whistler / Blackcomb Mountain, Whistler
• Whistler Nordic Centre 2010, Whistler - Whistler Olympic Park
• Whitetooth, Golden - Kicking Horse? Or is this a proposal?
• Yelohed Ski Area, Prince George - is this Purden Ski Village?

• What about McBride? Aren't there community lfits there, and wasn't htere a proposal?
• Atlin has community t-bar lifts or rope tows, no?

Slivertip I remember - but is or isn't it the same as Manning Park? Or were there two lfit companies there? Hmm. Yelohed and various others I think area only designs/intentions/projects-in-the-make like Jumbo. Tumbler Ridge I'd heard of but haven't found a webpage for it yet. Forbidden Plateau I know is a x-country area, sounds like someone wants to put up some lifts or has. Paradise Valley maybe is Squamish, as also Brohm Ridge (both unbuilt); Cypress Bowl Ski Area is currently merged into Cypress Mountain and like Grouse and Seymour and Burke prob. shouldn't be; Burke I haven't added to {{Ski areas and resorts in British Columbia}} as I'm not sure it's in operation, or anything more than a private club with its own tow, like other community-org operated hills; not sure. Anyone who knows, please advise or comment on Template talk:Ski areas and resorts in British Columbia or Category talk:Ski areas and resorts in British Columbia.Skookum1 (talk) 19:04, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Re x-country areas, isn't the Tetrahedron Provicial Park such an area, and what's that small range NW from Sechelt? Also I think Elkford has t-bars or rope-tows....Skookum1 (talk) 02:55, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

alt/old names

Just wondering if the old names or alternate names for some of htese shouldn't be included; likewise their locations; some are misleading - "Kicking Horse" is on the opposite side of Golden from the Kicking Horse River/Pass, and used to be Whitetooth Ski Area; Fernie was Snow Valley, Sun Peaks was Tod, and so on. The town-lcation thing may b e more important; but given Silvertip/Manning Park (also called Allison Pass, unles again ther'es two hills there...) I think alt/old names are important in cases where it's an issue of notability/recognizability; rather than just stikcing with corporate branding-names....Skookum1 (talk) 19:28, 29 July 2008 (UTC) Paradise Valley is not a ski hill but a snowmobile club in Dawson Creek. Dawson Creek has a ski hill called Bear Mountain ran by the non-profit group Dawson Creek Ski and rec. Assoc. Don't forget Powder King was Azu Ski Villiage prior to 1986. tumbler ridge does not have a ski hill —Preceding unsigned comment added by Energyrail (talk • contribs) 04:48, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Diamond Head?

Diamond Head's lift or gondola towers were for a while still visible from the Brohm Ridge stretch of Hwy 99; I'm not sure they were ever finished and in operation, but wasn't the daylodge and some rope tows up there in operation for a while? And weren't there tows, at least, somewhere near Garibaldi? (.e. Garibaldi townsite). The same location was re-proposed as the Brohm Ridge development, but I think climatic-change concerns derailed it (more rain than snow in recent decades....). Just checking as to whetehr or not Diamond Head is a "closed" ski area, or if it should like Brohm Ridge be listed as a "proposed" ski area; others are not listed above - Bralorne/Sunshine notably I think also proposals have kicked around for Railroad Pass and the Douglas Band wants ot build one near Port Douglas, I think on Fire Mountain but I'm not sure exactly, only heard mumbles; and someone talked about buildilng one up in the Coquihalla area somewhere.....minor "club" type hills like th old Bralorne club, Mission Mountain/Pass (above shalalth/Seton) and Burke Mtn can all be discounted as they were never commercial proposals/operations SFAIK (other than Bralorne, sort of, though Burke almost became a community hill....) and one of the mines near Hope was also talked about at some point, long ago....(snow conditions ahve changed, I think that's also what killed expansion plans for Silvertip that would have kept it alive...). This is just all "corners of the mind" memories; the biggie is Powder Mountain and it may yet resurface....Skookum1 (talk) 02:01, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Diamond Head is now a back-country area inside Garibaldi Provincial Park. It is not accessible by car. People do ski on Brohm ridge - albeit by traversing up -on foot- from the Diamond Head park parking lots. The hike takes 1 1/2 to 2.5 hours and the skiing is done along the ridge. People just ski down, then walk up - repeat cycle. There is no avalanche control or staff that manage the area. In effect, there is no semblance of a ski area there (past or present) - not in any visible way at least. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Canwilf (talk • contribs) 02:57, 31 January 2012 (UTC)