Reviews for Red Mountain

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Connor
Such a cool all-around resort. Great terrain, very inexpensive (especially food and drink on the mountain), lots of snow.
Carl Holmquist
Had a wonderful trip. Rossland is an awesome little town. They had their winter festival while we were there. Great skiing. Nice long runs. A lot of expert terrain. Not much for restaurants, that place is for skiing and riding. Going back!!
Great expanse of trees, nice steepness you can scare yourself on any double black. Totally cool.
Old lifts but the staff do a great job. Grabbing the chairs, they work hard.
Dale Andersen
I drove up from Spokane to take advantage of the freshies! It had just snowed some 55 inches in less than 48 hrs! Singles weren’t allowed because of the risk! I ended up teaming up with some teenagers and started skiing! The most snow I’ve ever skied! Couldn’t even see my skis for most of the day! After lunch I got separated from the group. After a couple more runs & looking at the map, I tried getting down the mtn! Not sure exactly what happened, but I got off the trail and snow was over my head! Luckily I was able to take my skis off and started crawling. Some three hrs later I crawled off the man! I was laying there in a pool of sweet in zero degrees F when an employee walked past me and asked me where I came from? I told him & he responded by saying that the man has been closed for two hrs! Skipped supper, headed to hotel & straight to bed! Would love to go back and hope the resort is able to survive!
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Spokane Native
No half pipe is the only critique I can think of but who cares with the infinite side country
Skiers mountain, incredible access to backcountry, best vibe of any resort in North America.
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EDWARD C
Red Mountain exceeded our expectations. A scenic, under 3hr drive from Spokane made our travel from NYC w/ our 7yr old daughter very manageable. Our concerns of recent warm temps were quickly dissolved when it started snowing by 8am the first day on the lifts. 3 days & 16" + made for untracked & steeeeep lines down countless chutes & bowls, all filled w/ trees, both spaced & tight. When you tire of that, take a quick cat ride up to Mt Kircup. Its cheap & beats the 20min hike to some more of previously mentioned terrain. The warm weather effected the snow quality a bit. It made for some heavy, wet conditions, but that didn't deter us from getting our fill of untracked lines. A 2hr drive to soak in Ainsworth Hot Spring is well worth it, and we hear Whitewater is a great mountain, but we stuck to Red. Never leave snow to go find it elsewhere! Our daughter loves Red Mt & excelled beyond our believes in ski school. She logged more hrs on the mountain than anyone & had enough energy to take us for runs after we picked her up. If you haven't already, check out BC's Powder Highway & make a stop @ Red.
Big & steep w/out crowds
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erik michael
RED is seriously amazing. i've skied a lot of places and couldn't believe how fun this place was. If you love off-piste and tree skiing this is your dream-spot. Good intermediate terrain, beginners have a handful of options, super cheap lift tickets, and unreal advanced terrain with 360 degree descents. unheard of in a lot of places. the new mountain expansion and chairlift to grey is AWESOME. and now $10/run cat skiing too! Rafters lounge gets wild for apres, everyone is super friendly (like for real) and the town is pretty incredible too - not to mention the award-winning brewery was one of the favorites. Long story short, this place is quite the hidden gem.
Killer terrain, amazing people, awesome upgrades, super fun town, fun atmosphere, laid back
Not a ton of terrain for beginners...that's about it!
Peter's iPhone
See above.
Very good trails and easy to traverse the mountain. Very good volume of snow throughout the winter and spring. Great snowcat skiing.
No great base area, only a few places to eat in nearby Rossland.
generalgallina
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Best tree skiing, period.
I've been skiing everywhere but Red has the best trees, period. Red is also HUGE and undiscovered. It's bigger than Steamboat or Jackson Hole. It's also at the tip of the Powder Highway, so there's even more skiing just up the road.
julien_tremblay
best hill besides white water
James Ga
Just a few miles north of the US border, north of Spokane, WA, lies perhaps my favorite resort. I've skied in Europe, all over the U.S. (east and west) and all over the BC/Alberta mountains. Red strikes a perfect balance of extreme side country skiing and a family-friendly resort. The trees here are perhaps the best I've ever skied. The annual snowfall is huge, but I recommend waiting until January for it to pile up. The lodging is best if you VRBO but they're building a hotel there this year. I'd also recommend Prestige Mountain Resort. It's clean and offers free shuttles from town 3 miles away. The resort has 4 mountains, one of which is accessible only by cat. The cat is $10 per rider on top of whatever pass you have. However, you'll find untouched powder there even a week after the most recent snowfall. Finish your day at Rafters, voted BC's #1 apres ski bar. I only know that because I use its status to convince my wife to let me go there more often than I should. Try the excellent sushi in town and grab breakfast at Alpine Grind. Dinner at The Garage is 5 star food. Highly recommend it. Finally, this resort offers world class skiing but I perhaps like it most because the people are so great. Aussies, Canucks, Kiwis, Limeys and 'Mericans are there for one reason, and that reason is snow. Also, recommend you go to Whitewater Ski Resort just 45 minutes from Red. Also, recommend you go to Ainsworth Hot Springs and Nelson, also 45 minutes from Red. Enjoy
Trees, No crowds at all, 4 mountains, huge annual snowfall, cheap, beautiful, cool town
Hard to get there, slow lifts
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