The Skiers' Guide to Red Mountain

My family spent a week in Rossland , we stayed at the prestige lodge and vrbo. Both were 12mins to the ski lifts, both were excellent. The town is very rustic and easy to navigate. Red Mountian ski resort have lodging on the hill. We eat and drank at the Josie hotel. Very nice service and food. We rented some skis for my daughter which was easy to do on hill. The ski hill was very low visibly the entire time we were there and the snow base was very low for that Mountian . Lots of rain Nov and December. One member of my group couldn’t fly in all week due to the fog. That said , there was very little few people skiing and we had the hill to our selves. The tree skiing saved us , great pitch and well spaced , gave us references to where the mountain began ended and the sky began. I used my Ikon pass which was easy to use. Walked right on to lifts. The lifts were all the old style undetachable, so they were slow compared to lake Louise lifts. I enjoyed the skiing , their worst snow was comparable to some of the best snow on the east side of the Rockies.

Red has been my favorite mountain to ski. Small local mountain vibes and big mountain terrain. They don’t concern themselves with fluffing up tourism attractions, the mountain speaks for itself. Town is minutes away so no need to stay at the resort, but the ski in ski out options are amazing. We had the best time!

3 days skiing in late January. The snow conditions hadn’t been great in the run up to our arrival but we still managed to find some powder tucked away here and there. There is a great option to meet up with a local ski guide outside the lodge in the morning who will show you the mountain, help you find some less well known or off the beaten track gems and powder stashes, depending on what you’re looking for, as well as throwing a few helpful tips in too. These are all local volunteers who know the mountain well and it is free (other than buying them a beer in the bar at the end of the day). Great that you can pretty much ski the whole mountain 360 degrees, great range of terrain and pistes and awesome tree runs, probably my favourite trees anywhere. It’s a fairly quiet mountain, not busy when we were there. Nightlife is a little limited but adequate for our needs (few beers and some food - nice restaurant in the hotel).
Wholeheartedly recommended!

Red mountain is truly steep and deep with champagne powder guaranteed. Mountain hosts are available from 9 o’clock in the morning and after lunch who will show you around the mountain free of charge and are extremely professional hospitality from the Canadian people is of the best I’ve seen with small Hughes and very polite skiers and boards five star all the way, even six in most categories.

Good conditions, well groomed, good variety of runs, nice weather, was a beautiful day, I like the paradise side more but the whole hill is great for skiing and has a great variety of any type of run you prefer