Big White Summer Blog

In just a few months, the lifts at Big White Ski Resort will start spinning for another season. While guests have been busy hiking, biking, and playing on the mountain over the summer, staff have been digging, building, moving and investing to make the resort even better for the 2019/2020 Winter season.

After experiencing devastating water damage in March 2019, The BullWheel Gastro Family Pub has undergone extensive renovations to be ready for all of our guests come Winter 2019/2020. Owner John Mooney gives us the lowdown:

27-year-old cyclist and Kelowna local, Jordan Cheyne, has won the L’Alpe de Grand Blanc road bike race with a time of one hour, 48 minutes and 15 seconds.

Sunday July 14th marks the end of the inaugural Freeride Days at Big White Ski Resort presented by Monster Energy. This year was a year of firsts as many of the events have never been done at Big White.

The second annual Big White Invitational Slopestyle hosted by Tom van Steenbergen and presented by Five Ten was a resounding success.

Freeride Days is in full swing as the food trucks and vendors moved in and set up in Happy Valley at 10 am.

July 11th – After a night of heavy rain the weather held out for the opening day of Freeride Days at Big White Ski Resort.

Chad Nell has a two-year waitlist for his hand-made knives – but, make the podium at Big White’s 2nd Annual Invitational Slopestyle Gold Event this summer, and you can bypass that wait. Bike Big White is replacing traditional trophies at this year’s event with one-of-a-kind gold, silver and bronze-handled knives crafted by the Utah-based knife maker.

Thanks to a partnership between Big White Ski Resort and Elevation Outdoors, up to five Kelowna-area youth from disadvantaged backgrounds will learn how to mountain bike this summer.

Big White Ski Club was given an honourable mention as “Club of the Year” in this year’s Audi Canadian Ski Racing Awards. Dispersed annually, the awards recognize the best in Canadian ski racing for that season, with nominations and votes submitted by the public.