The Marmot

Snowsports don’t stop when Mount Washington Alpine Resort closes its doors on the winter season.

Skiing isn’t just about pointing the skis together and gliding effortlessly across the face of a run.

The Sasquatch, said to inhabit Mount Washington and the nearby Vancouver Island Mountain Range, has ventured farther afield. That is the finding of zoologists who have scoured the mountain in search of evidence.

The Strathcona Nordics Cross Country Ski Club is preparing to host a second International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Cup Event in March 2009.

While Mount Washington Alpine Resort welcomes aspiring athletes from around the world for pre-Olympic training to a mountain boasting some of the most spectacular coastal alpine settings in North America, they can also be proud of helping Canada’s most endangered mammal, the Vancouver Island Marmot, begin a slow recovery on the very same slopes.

A new style of instructor training is coming to Mount Washington Alpine Resort.

Marketing has been an important initiative for Mount Washington Alpine Resort as it pursues a supporting role in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games to be held at Vancouver/Whistler, B.C.

The Mount Washington Freestyle Club has been operating up at Mount Washington Alpine Resort for seven years, and this year hopes to become a permanent fixture with the creation of a mogul site.