For Immediate Release: November 3rd, 2015
KICKING HORSE MOUNTAIN RESORT WHAT’S NEWSCAST FOR THE 2015/2016 SEASON
Golden, BC – at Kicking Horse we’ve been working hard to get the resort ready for the winter season for you! Check out what our team has been working on;
– NEW Ski App
This season you’ll be able to check the weather conditions, snow report, mountain status updates and more, from the NEW RCR Ski App! More info.
– Trees are for Glades movement
We’re keeping Trees for Glades this season! Not only are we not printing a brochure, we’re also having a tree planted for each email signed up on our new Trees are for Glades website. Enter a contest to win a ski vacation on the website too!
– Easier Access from Alpine Bowls
High up on the slopes, hard-working excavators and bulldozers have made two mid-mountain runs, Blaster and Tailspin, more beginner friendly, as well as widening two alpine traverses allowing for safer travels to your secret stash! NEW winch anchors have also been added allowing for more fresh corduroy in the alpine including access to two new groomers from Stairway to Heaven. These improvements, along with NEW run signs across the mountain have perhaps tamed the Horse, but only if you wish.
Photo: Blaster Corner, reducing the grade will make it easier to ride.
– Fat Bikes Rental & Lessons
Available from our rental shop this season will be a select number of Fat Bikes, book a tour on our designated trails or venture out on your own.
– New Cedars Real Estate Development
The Cedars is a mountain modern duplex development that consists of 26 units. The First Phase compromised of 8 units has already sold out! Get more information on the new RCR Realty site.
Read more about What’s New this season on our website.
About Kicking Horse Mountain Resort & Resorts of the Canadian Rockies Inc.
Kicking Horse Mountain Resort is a world-class destination resort located 2.5 hours west of Calgary, nestled between the Purcell and Rocky Mountains in the heart of British Columbia. Winter offers a fully integrated mountain resort experience and the most progressive in-bounds skiing in North America. Kicking Horse Mountain Resort,www.kickinghorseresort.com, is part of the Resorts of the Canadian Rockies Inc. (RCR) family. Proudly Canadian, Resorts of the Canadian Rockies Inc. (RCR) is the largest private ski resort owner/operator in North America, owning six ski resorts across Canada, including Nakiska Ski Area in Alberta; Fernie Alpine Resort, Kicking Horse Mountain Resort and Kimberley Alpine Resort in British Columbia. RCR also owns and manages a number of hotels and golf courses, including Trickle Creek in Kimberley, and Wintergreen Golf and Country Club in Bragg Creek. RCR aims to provide each and every guest The Ultimate Experience.
For more information, please contact:
Matt Mosteller
Senior VP Marketing & Resort Experience
Resorts of the Canadian Rockies
(403) 209-3323
mmosteller@skircr.com
Twitter – @PowderMatt
Powder Matt’s Blog
Powder Matt on Pinterest
Powder Matt on Google +
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– NEW Ski App
This season you’ll be able to check the weather conditions, snow report, mountain status updates and more, from the NEW RCR Ski App! More info.
– Trees are for Glades movement
We’re keeping Trees for Glades this season! Not only are we not printing a brochure, we’re also having a tree planted for each email signed up on our new Trees are for Glades website. Enter a contest to win a ski vacation on the website too!
– New Cedars Real Estate Development
The Cedars is a mountain modern duplex development that consists of 26 units. The First Phase compromised of 8 units has already sold out! Get more information on the new RCR Realty site.
– Corks Restaurant
Located at Copper Horse Lodge, on mountain, just across from the gondola, Corks Restaurant + Bar has a casual ambience with warm tones and a cozy candlelight atmosphere. Enjoy an experience of fresh, delicious, flavourful food, served in hearty portions, complimented by exceptional new world wines and great service from knowledgeable staff.
– Rocky Mountain Cat Tours
Experience the Rocky Mountains alpine in the comfort of a snowcat! Up to 12 will enjoy a BBQ lunch or dinner at the top of the mountains.
– Rocky Mountain – Guided backcountry skiing/riding
For a real adrenaline rush, take a ski or board snowmobile backcountry tour. You’ll ride up the mountain on a snowmobile to some of the most desired, untouched backcountry terrain; this is an experience the hardcore ski bums will not want to miss!
– Menu & themed dinners at Eagle’s Eye
Canada’s Highest Elevated Restaurant, Eagle’s Eye, located at the top of the Eagle Express Gondola, will be adding new menu items for next winter. Also adding themed dinners and mix & mingle nights that can be purchased as a ride & dine package.
– Easier Access from Alpine Bowls
High up on the slopes, hard-working excavators and bulldozers have made two mid-mountain runs, Blaster and Tailspin, more beginner friendly, as well as widening two alpine traverses allowing for safer travels to your secret stash! NEW winch anchors have also been added allowing for more fresh corduroy in the alpine including access to two new groomers from Stairway to Heaven. These improvements, along with NEW run signs across the mountain have perhaps tamed the Horse, but only if you wish.
Photo: Blaster Corner, reducing the grade will make it easier to ride. View more photos.
–Family Area Expansion
With an upgraded skating rink with double the square footage, as well as a NEW yurt conveniently located at the base of the Jelly Bean Express to make rest breaks that much easier (and warmer)! Once parents are ready to get in a few turns of their own, Kicking Horse Kids Care is here to help. Don’t forget to try the night tubing experience!
For More Information, please contact: media@skircr.com
- Published in Winter
Kicking Horse has beat out some great ski resorts to make it into round 3 of Powder Magazine’s Ski Town Throwdown, including Whistler and even our very own family member, Fernie Alpine Resort. Once again WE NEED YOUR VOTE! Help us make it to the next round in the 4th annual Ski Town Throwdown by voting for Kicking Horse on the Powder Magazine website – your vote can make a difference!
Vote now! Voting only goes until Thursday night at 7 pm MST!
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Well, Boo declared it back in September, and it looks like his natural instincts were spot on. Boo started his preparation for his winter hibernation early, leading his trainers to believe we were in for an early hit of winter.
The snow started coming down back in September and while it took a little hiatus during October, it’s back with more in the forecast!
Photos from October 26th
Check out our Facebook page for more recent images and for all the snowy updates and to our online events calendar for information about opening day, tentatively scheduled for December 11th.
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Imagine this; you wake up from your slumber early, really early. And you’re not getting back to sleep. What do you do? What do most of us do? Grab our smart phones. Now, when you grab your phone you’ll have the ability to get the most up to date information for snow conditions, weather reports, trail maps, resort info and more from one handy app for Fernie Alpine Resort, Kimberley Alpine Resort, Kicking Horse Mountain Resort and Nakiska Ski Area. Your next problem – it’s going to be a powder day!! Time to call in sick and head out to the mountains!
APP INFORMATION
Available on iTunes and the Google Play store the new app will be released in time for ski season and will be completely FREE! Information found on the app will include snow reports and trail maps, conditions, webcams and weather reports, event updates as well as handy resort info for Fernie Alpine Resort, Kimberley Alpine resort and Kicking Horse Mountain Resort in British Columbia as well as Nakiska Ski Area in Alberta. New features will be constantly added throughout the season, stay tuned for the official release and to download the brand new App!
FREE WIFI STATIONS
Access your APP from FREE TELUS wifi in our resort base areas and from certain hot spots on the mountain.
WINTER EARLY BOOKING
Ensure your vacation is relaxing from, beginning to end. Start by booking with our knowledgeable agents and trust in them to find the best resort and hotel property for your winter experience. Call 1-800-258-7669 to book over the phone, book or chat online with an agent at www.skircr.com/vacations. Book before November 30th to save up to 35%!
About Resorts of the Canadian Rockies Inc.
Proudly Canadian, Resorts of the Canadian Rockies Inc. (RCR) is the largest private ski resort owner/operator in North America, owning six ski resorts across Canada, including Nakiska Ski Area in Alberta; Fernie Alpine Resort, Kicking Horse Mountain Resort and Kimberley Alpine Resort in British Columbia. RCR also owns and manages a number of hotels and golf courses, including Trickle Creek in Kimberley, and Wintergreen Golf and Country Club in Bragg Creek. RCR aims to provide each and every guest The Ultimate Experience.
For more information, please contact:
Matt Mosteller
Senior VP Marketing & Resort Experience
Resorts of the Canadian Rockies
(403) 209-3323
mmosteller@skircr.com
Twitter – @PowderMatt
Powder Matt’s Blog
Powder Matt on Pinterest
Powder Matt on Google +
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For Immediate Release: October 13th, 2015
TREES ARE FOR GLADES AT RESORTS OF THE CANADIAN ROCKIES
Resorts of the Canadian Rockies (RCR), Canada’s largest private ski resort operator, has committed to doing more to lessen their environmental footprint.
For this fall season leading up to winter, RCR, which includes Fernie Alpine Resort, Kicking Horse Mountain Resort and Kimberley Alpine Resort in British Columbia, will not be printing a brochure for the very first time. Instead of printing brochures to hand out at trade shows, the company will focus on re-directing people to their online brochure, while re-investing funds into planting trees with a non-profit organization, Trees for the Future. For every email sign-up, RCR has committed to planting one tree.
The campaign is called Trees are for Glades.
All information like trail maps, vacation packages and town information can be easily found through their websites. By asking for email signups, it helps to teach consumers to use more sustainable methods to gather information. The company is in hopes that it sheds light on the amount of unnecessary paper that is consumed on a daily basis.
Over 75,000 pieces of paper will be saved during this campaign, and RCR’s goal is to plant 10,000 trees.
Other environmental commitments: RCR has recently implemented an online waiver system for season passes, has worked to conserve water and energy and implemented recycling programs.
More Information on Trees are for Glades can be found here: www.treesareforglades.com.
Resorts of the Canadian Rockies Official Website
About Resorts of the Canadian Rockies Inc.
Proudly Canadian, Resorts of the Canadian Rockies Inc. (RCR) is the largest private ski resort owner/operator in North America, owning six ski resorts across Canada, including Nakiska Ski Area in Alberta; Fernie Alpine Resort, Kicking Horse Mountain Resort and Kimberley Alpine Resort in British Columbia. RCR also owns and manages a number of hotels and golf courses, including Trickle Creek in Kimberley, and Wintergreen Golf and Country Club in Bragg Creek. RCR aims to provide each and every guest The Ultimate Experience.
For more information, please contact:
Matt Mosteller
Senior VP Marketing & Resort Experience
Resorts of the Canadian Rockies
(403) 209-3323
mmosteller@skircr.com
Twitter – @PowderMatt
Powder Matt’s Blog
Powder Matt on Pinterest
Powder Matt on Google +
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We like white on green here at Resorts of the Canadian Rockies; lots and lots of snow on our mountains and all over the trees on those mountains too. Because if you’ve never come rocketing through the glades, ripping up and down the natural moguls with powder hitting you in your grinning face until you blast back onto the trail, you really haven’t lived. And we kind of want to keep that around for a while, for future skiers and riders, for our kids, and for our kids’ kids too.
That’s why we decided to take a stand and be the first ski resort company to refuse printing a brochure this year, to do what we can to lessen our environmental footprint. On top of that, we’ll plant a whole tree for every email sign-up to our online newsletter. We hope this helps reiterate to consumers everywhere, that taking paper maybe isn’t the answer any more, especially if you can find that information online anyways.
So, help do your part and keep the Trees for Glades! Sign your email up on our Trees for Glades website and read our full story (plus enter our contest for the chance to win a spring event ski trip for you and 3 friends)!
Success So Far:
- 75,000 pieces of paper saved by this initiative alone
- So far: 3000+ trees planted – thanks to you!
Photo courtesy of Trees for the Future Facebook.
- Published in Winter
We’re up in the first round in the 4th annual Ski Town Throwdown by Powder Mag! VOTE for Kicking Horse now, voting for the first round only runs until this Thursday Oct 15th at 7pm MST! —-> http://ow.ly/TlJIy
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Powder Highway – The unofficial networks website has been a trusted source for ski and snowboard resort information since it launched in 2010, recently releasing its annual list of the Top 10 Canadian Ski Resorts. Receiving a spot on the list are the RCR resorts – Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, Fernie Alpine Resort and Mont St Anne coming in respectively at spots 2, 7 and 10.
Read the full list on unofficialnetworks.com.
KICKING HORSE MOUNTAIN RESORT
At Kicking Horse, we’re proud to garner rave reviews for our incredible verticals, deep ‘champagne’ powder and a truly spectacular and unique terrain mix. With ridiculously long downhill runs, and the option to heli-ski, Kicking Horse is a place where the stories are almost too tall to believe. The fourth highest vertical drop in North America, the raw ruggedness of our mountain, our amazing always-fresh powder, and the sheer beauty of our pristine scenery set Kicking Horse apart as one of the most exceptional ski resorts in British Columbia, hands down. www.kickinghorseresort.com
FERNIE ALPINE RESORT
Deep in the snow, high up on the Powder Highway, lies Fernie Alpine Resort. With 37 feet of perfect powder, stunning scenery, 5 huge alpine bowls and endless downhill thigh burning runs. Don’t miss an opportunity to fall in love with Fernie, start in the large Learning Area at the base of the mountain serviced by its own t-bar lift, once comfortable you have a huge resort full of secret powder pockets and hidden mountain spots to keep you occupied throughout your skiing/riding career! Find out why Fernie has been named as a Top 25 Ski Town in the World, Best Winter Trip and Coolest Town in North America in recent years. www.skifernie.com
MONT. ST. ANNE
Only 30 minutes from the city, this extraordinary mountain is renowned for impeccable snow conditions. The skiable terrain includes 71 trails and 4 snow parks spread across 3 sides of the mountain. After sundown, 19 trails remain floodlit and become the highest vertical drop for night skiing in the country. www.mont-sainte-anne.com
WINTER EARLY BOOKING
Ensure your vacation is relaxing from, beginning to end. Start by booking with our knowledgeable agents and trust in them to find the best resort and hotel property for your winter experience. Call 1-800-258-7669 to book over the phone, chat online with an agent or view all packages at the RCR Vacations website. Book before November 30th to save up to 35%!
About Resorts of the Canadian Rockies Inc.
Proudly Canadian, Resorts of the Canadian Rockies Inc. (RCR) is the largest private ski resort owner/operator in North America, owning six ski resorts across Canada, including Fernie Alpine Resort, Kicking Horse Mountain Resort and Kimberley Alpine Resort in British Columbia and Nakiska Ski Area in Alberta. RCR also owns and manages a number of hotels and golf courses, including Trickle Creek in Kimberley, and Wintergreen Golf and Country Club in Bragg Creek. RCR aims to provide each and every guest The Ultimate Experience.
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For more information, please contact:
Matt Mosteller
Senior VP Marketing & Resort Experience, Resorts of the Canadian Rockies
(403) 209-3323 • mmosteller@skircr.com
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Golden, BC – Boo is trying to steal jobs, this time going after The Groundhog and making his own winter predictions. Although the groundhog’s predictions happen at the end of winter, Boo’s is at the beginning. He’s started building his hibernation den early this year and has already been bulking up for some time – putting on his winter weight earlier than ever as well, he’s been eating 40,000 calories a day since late August.
“Boo seems to think the winter will be a stout one,” says Matt Mosteller, VP of Sales & Resort Experience at Resorts of the Canadian Rockies, “as he [Boo] starts digging in, preparing a deep cave under a tree for his hibernation. Earlier and a bigger hole could mean a colder and deeper snowfall than usual,” added Mosteller.
ABOUT BOO
Boo lives at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort in the largest enclosed grizzly bear habitat in the world. Brought to the resort after having been orphaned as a cub, Boo was saved from certain death. Read more about Boo and the Grizzly Bear Interpretive Centre online.
EARLY SNOWSTORMS
Kicking Horse has already had several snowstorms in September! Earlier and bigger than usual hopefully foreshadows an epic ski season full of deep powder!
BOO, BUILDING HIS WINTER HOME;
Photo from September 23rd, 2015
WINTER EARLY BOOKING VACATION OFFERS
Ensure your vacation is relaxing from, beginning to end. Start by booking with our knowledgeable agents and trust in them to find the best resort and hotel property for your winter experience. Call 1-800-258-7669 to book over the phone, chat online with an agent at http://www.skircr.com/vacations or visit www.kickinghorseresort.com/early-booking to view all vacation packages. Book before November 30th to save up to 35%!
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For more information, please contact:
Matt Mosteller
(403) 209-3323 • mmosteller@skircr.com
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