In which West Canadian resort should I spend my season?

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MobiusStrip

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Hi guys!

I'm currently for 6 months in Canada, till early April. I'm in Vancouver till December, and then I'd like to spend the season in a resort with a friend. I'm looking for a resort with a great terrain park cause I'm just a park rat, although I'll do some BC sometimes. I've done some research, and I've read that Red Mountain, Lake Louise or Revelstoke (since they're getting a park this year) could be what I'm looking for (no Whistler, too expensive and don't want to have to sleep on someone else, though I'll probably spend a week there to see what it's like).

Which one of these resorts would you recommend me? Or maybe another one I haven't heard about? With a good atmosphere?

What are some things/tips to know when spending a season in Canada?

Thanks in advance!
 
what you should do is first stop in quebec and eat poutine and smoked meat all day everyday until you have a solid layer of blubber. then when you move out west you can just live in snow caves. hunt small woodland creatures and go ice fishing. hitch hike to the next resort and start the process over again.
 
Whistler/Blackcolm have a huge park if your into that and oviously the runs are great too. It's pretty expensive tho, so u might just wanna hit up a different resort There are tons in the Rockies and they are good too. Have fun
 
Revelstoke. I'd kill a lesser being for a work visa in Canada right now if I could. And get pow skis. End of discussion.
 
If you are seriously only interested in park you should go to vernon and ski silver star (with the odd days down at big white). Red mountain has a park sure, but it's not very good and won't satisfy your needs.

Revy might have a good park, but it is yet to be seen.

Lake Louise has a good park, but nowhere to live and while Banff isn't too far away, it can be just as expensive as whistler rent wise, and kinda tricky to actually find a place.

You already said no to whistler so....

Panorama has a park... I think it's ok? I don't know, I've never skied there.

North Shore has some ok parks if they get snow this year. We aren't too big on parks here in western Canada.
 
silverstar is one of your better options. red and revelstoke will have small parks (i am assuming for revelstoke) and will be covered in snow more often that not (hopefully). Grouse and seymour in Vancouver have some of the best parks in B.C. if they get enough snow, so staying in Vancouver might be a good option depending on the season we have. C.O.P. or winsport in calgary has a great park and is really close to the city.
 
Whistler has the best park by far, so if that's what you want, there are ways to make it work (specifically get a job at the resort and live in staff housing). But the best overall ski town though I would say is Revelstoke. Who knows what their park will look like, but you'll be skiing so much pow, that you forget what a park is.
 
if you are a true park rat i suggest that you fully re consider whistler bc it has one of the biggest and best parks in canada it also has an insane amount of side country and so much access to backcountry unfortunately whistler is pretty coastal and this previous season wasnt stellar and we are predicted for an even worse season. revelstoke in my opinion has some of the steepest and gnarliest in bound terrain and has an insane amount of access to bigger lines into some slack country and bc however revvy has never had a park prior and sometimes they build up acouple jumps come spring time but its defiantly a gamble to ski revvy for just park but you will fall in love with just skiing revvy its terrain is the best.

my suggestion would be silverstar if you are looking for park, they probably have the second best park in canada compared to whistler, it does take the park crew almost the entire season to fully establish the park which is kinda painfull but understandable after being ditched by telus. ive had passes to both biggie and silvy and biggie does have better terrain but on a park rat point of view silvy got the better park

hopefully that helps you out

also shout out to grouse mountain when they use to get snow they had one of the realest parks out there but sadly gruse park is almost non existence bc of no snow
 
Thank you all for your answers!

I need to add that I'm used to ride a small park with 5 jumps, so maybe a park that you consider average will be more than enough for me (as long as there is a jump big enough to try a double :p). And my friend is more into BC than I am so I think I`ll end up doing as much BC as park, and after thinking about it, it would be an heresy to spend a season in Canada and not to enjoy the powder.

So I'm really considering Revelstoke, but some of you also mentioned Silverstar and Big White for their park. How are those resort for BC?

And I started to look for a place to stay in Revelstoke to get an idea. What price range should I expect for a place to stay for 2 people with a kitchen for 3 months? Till now most of the places I found were hotels or inn that weren't really suitable for a long stay, where should I look to find condos and such in ski resorts?
 
13540468:MobiusStrip said:
Thank you all for your answers!

I need to add that I'm used to ride a small park with 5 jumps, so maybe a park that you consider average will be more than enough for me (as long as there is a jump big enough to try a double :p). And my friend is more into BC than I am so I think I`ll end up doing as much BC as park, and after thinking about it, it would be an heresy to spend a season in Canada and not to enjoy the powder.

So I'm really considering Revelstoke, but some of you also mentioned Silverstar and Big White for their park. How are those resort for BC?

And I started to look for a place to stay in Revelstoke to get an idea. What price range should I expect for a place to stay for 2 people with a kitchen for 3 months? Till now most of the places I found were hotels or inn that weren't really suitable for a long stay, where should I look to find condos and such in ski resorts?
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I don't think you know what BC actually is.
 
13540525:californiagrown said:
I don't think you know what BC actually is.
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Backcountry? I'm talking about skiing powder, not on slopes. Maybe I get it wrong because my native language isn't English.

If not what do you use it for, so I'll avoid sounding silly in the future (except for British Columbia)?
 
try to find a spot in Kelowna. it's only 45 minutes away from big white which has a great park with a dedicated park lift. also the mountain has all kinds of terrain that you could think of, steeps, shoots, tight trees, open trees, hilly areas for jumps. really anything you want. plus there's a film college there so theere's a lot of 20somethings that you could be friends with, rent isn't bad either.

if you want to change it up from big white when you're there, silverstar is about 2 hours away. not sure about the quality of the park or mountain though.
 
13540574:MobiusStrip said:
Backcountry? I'm talking about skiing powder, not on slopes. Maybe I get it wrong because my native language isn't English.

If not what do you use it for, so I'll avoid sounding silly in the future (except for British Columbia)?
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Backcountry is out of the resort skiing, uncontrolled, unpatrolled, outside the boundaries. You say you are a park rat, so inbounds will challenge you more than enough at any of the good hills in western canada.
 
Western Canada isn't really the place to go to ski park. Just do yourself a favour and move to Nelson or Revy and buy some fatty skis. Red is sick but I wouldn't be surprised if it just pisses rain this year because of the El Niño.
 
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