Alpine Skiing

In Rossland the skiing runs as deep and as steep as the runs on Red Mountain.

For as long as their have been people in the mountains surrounding Rossland there have been skiers racing down them. 

Canada's first National Championship ski race was held on the slopes of Red Mountain on February 15th, 1896. The race was organized and subsequently won by Olaus Jeldness, the father of skiing in Western Canada.Following in a string of firsts, in 1947 Red constructed the first chairlift in Western Canada up the face of Red.

The Red Mountain racers, Canada's most successful ski club has been hosting events including Canadian Championships, World Cup's in the 1960's, Provincial Championships and the BC Winter games along with producing more National team racers and Olympic champions than any other ski club in the country.

From Nancy Greene's dominance of the ski world in the 1960's through to Kerrin Lee-Gartner's 1992 Olympic Downhill Gold in Lillehammer Rosslander's have been owning the slopes and welcoming the world to our mountains for generations.

More recently Red has been the host of the Canadian Open Freeskiing Championships on it's steep and deep terrain and hosted the BC and Canadian Skier / Snowboard Cross Championships on its new cross course designed by the producer of the 2002 Olympic Snowboard Cross producer.

For professionally run events, amazing skiing and a real small town alpine atmosphere there is no better skiing event locale than Rossland and Red Mountain.

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