Mountain News

Summer time is just so much better when you can spend it with the ones you love – including your four-legged family members! At Big White Ski Resort, we love seeing your pooches hitching rides on the chairlift, wagging their tails in the Village and sniffing flowers in the alpine meadows – but, there are a few basic rules and tips to keep everyone, including your pet, happy, healthy and safe while traversing the mountain.

The sun is shining, the trails are opening, and soon, there will be thousands upon thousands of alpine wildflowers blooming – as of Friday July 10, Big White Ski Resort, in all its summer beauty, is open to the public! Over 300 people joined the Big White family in welcoming the summer season, with more showing up for Friday Night Bikes in the bike park

It’s nearly skiing-in-your-sweater, cold-beer-to-cool-down weather at Big White Ski Resort. To get you as excited about the longer days as we are, we’ve compiled a list of the best patios to relax, imbibe and perfect your goggle tan at this Spring!

Over 400 skiers, snowboarders and snow-seekers from across the world will be descending on Big White in early March for the mountain’s largest amateur race event in history. From March 1 to 6, Big White is playing host to the International Airline Ski Federation’s 61st Annual World Airline Ski Championships.

Year after year, the epic snow conditions, ski-in, ski-out convenience and the Village lifestyle attract potential employees to Big White – and now, there’s another draw: brand-new, fully furnished staff accommodation in Black Forest.

Big White Ski Resort is truly a magical place – made even more magical by the people who ski, snowboard, stay and play throughout the year. In this blog, we'll share the stories of people who have fallen in love with one another, who have been proposed to and who have said "I Do" at the resort.

So much has happened since Big White opened in 1963 with one T-Bar and big dreams. Check out our timeline of everything that's happened since.

You can’t make it very far at Big White without running into an Aussie accent – in fact, last year, Australian employees made up 37 per cent of total staff on the mountain – and for those reasons, the tragic bush fires affecting Australia is hitting close to home for many at the resort. 

Pop artist Billie Eilish might have taken home five Grammys last night – but on Saturday night, closer to home, at the Okanagan Housing Awards, Big White’s Snowpeaks Lodge was the big winner!