Big Red Cats
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P.O. Box 742
Rossland, BC
Ph: 250-362-2271
Email: ski@bigredcats.com
Website: http://www.bigredcats.com
The Powder and the Passion
Some of the best gladed powder skiing in the world, less than an hour from Whitewater!
Why Big Red Cats?
- Tailored - Ski and Ride with people of similar ability - we have separate Cats for Experts, advanced, and intermediates.
- Value - our prices are between C$299 -C$390 per day - we have a 10,000 vertical foot guarantee - But expert groups will do 15,000 - 20,000 vertical feet in a day.
- Terrain - We have 18,500 acres of terrain
- Reliability - We have 4 snowcats (normally 2 for guests, and 2 back-up cats) we also have a full time mechanic.
- Access - to our cat skiing is easy - this means more runs for you.
- Whitewater - We offer great packages that include skiing/riding at Whitewater. Also Whitewater Season Pass holders can receive a $50 discount at Big Red Cats.
- Safety - We have Safety and back-up team on the mountain every day.
Location and terrain:
We are located between Whitewater and Red Mountain in the Monashee range in B.C. Below are some statistics and numbers:
- 185 run that we ski - a number of these can be skied 2-3 times
- 3,000 vertical feet is our longest run
- 1,300 vertical feet is our average run length - average is longer for expert and advanced days
- 10-12 is the average number of runs per day
- Our run mix is 24% Double Black, 56% Black runs, and 20% Blue runs
- 30% of our runs are open, 40% are nicely spaced glades, and 30% is good tree skiing
- We ski on every aspect of our runs - 30% east, 20% north, 25% west and 25% south
Value:
Big Red Cats - 4 Day Package
- 4 nights B&B lodging at the Red Shutter Inn, including full breakfast, hot tub and sauna
- 2 days cat skiing
- 1 day lift serviced skiing/riding at Whitewater Winter Resort
C$955 January and March, and C$1045 February pp/dbl/taxes extra
Deep Powder Package
This incredible powder getaway will allow you to warm up for 2 days at Whitewater, before heading over to Big Red Cats for one day of blissful snow cat skiing. Spend your nights at the conveniently located Mountain Hound Inn.
Prices TBA
Kootenay Powder Sampler Package**
Take a tour around the Kootenays and make this your powder adventure of a lifetime! The Mountain Hound Inn or Hume Hotel, located in downtown Nelson will be your home base for 4 nights. Spend 2 days warming up at Whitewater Ski Resort, then head over to Red Resort and explore their mountain for a day. From there, spend 1 day snow cat skiing with Big Red Cats and finally head out to Ainsworth Hot Springs Resort for a relaxing, well deserved soak in their famous hot springs.
Prices TBA
What's New at Big Red Cats
The addition of the 2 new mountains will be Big Red Cats 6th and 7th mountains, and are called Claw Mountain and Mt China . The 2 new mountains will open up about another 3,000 acres of skiable terrain. This will allow Big Red Cats to use virtually all of its nearly 19,000 acres of terrain. The new mountains will also open about 100 new runs that have never been skied before. Big Red Cats also plans to do extensive glading for the coming winter.
Big Red Cats also announced the 7 summits challenge.Only advanced and expert groups of a full 12 people will be able to sign up for the 7 summits challenge. This will involve a quest to ski each of the 7 summits in one day. Those groups that achieve this will receive a limited edition 7 summits T-shirt and a CD/DVD showing some of the best runs of the day. Only 1 group per day will be allowed to attempt the 7 summits challenge in one day. Guests that do not have a group of 12 will be able to sign up for the 7 summits tour - this will available for experts only, and will normally involve skiing over 20,000 vertical feet in one day in some great challenging terrain in a quest to ski all 7 summits.
........................................................................."We stayed in Nelson and
skied the legendary powder at Whitewater -
Unbelieveable" GLEN SMITH, Spokane USA
