AREA ACTIVITIES
Dining + Nightlife
Alpine Grind - A favourie place for a latte with extra foam and a muffin. Great lunches too
Flying Steamshovel- Downtown Rossland Pub, centrally located, good solid food, nightlife, and rooms upstairs as well
Gabriella's - apres-ski and dinner at this fantastic Italian/Mediterranean restaurant in Prestige Inn
Uptown Lounge - lounge at the Prestige with live music on weekends, good food and beer - try the yam fries.
Idgie's Restaurante - in Rossland, high quality, healthy meals, especially the seafood. Will also cater wedding groups
Rock Cut Pub - pub on the highway between Red and Rossland. Good for fajitas, and beer and wings, and they have a pool table. We can drop your group off there after skiing, and you can watch your ski photos on the big screen there if you like.
Activties
Ainsworth Hot Springs - Natural hot springs, about 1h45mins north, past Nelson BC
Red Mountain Resort - the best lift-accessed gladed tree skiing in the world - mix a few days at the resort with a few days of cat skiing, you're staying at the resort anyway
Redstone Golf Resort - Cat skiers also tend to be golfers. Come back in the summer and enjoy the newly redesigned Redstone course. If you like it so much you want to move there, let me know.'
Trail Aquatic Centre - a good activity during your rest days, the indoor pool, waterslide, hot tub, steam room, and fitness centre is in Trail, only a 15 minute drive down the hill, and a very nice facility
Whitewater - We think that a perfect week would be 2 or 3 days at Red, with slopeside lodging, 3 days of cat skiing at Big Red Cats, and a day skiing at Whitewater ski resort, followed by dinner and last evening overnight stay in Nelson. A great ski area and very picturesque, excellent snowfall, and only an hour away. We can arrange a great ski safari package including cat skiing, and lifts and lodging at Red and Whitewater.
Blackjack cross country skiing - One of the best cross country ski areas in Canada - Skate or classic
Services
Betty Go Hard - our lodge managers, Natasha and Ian Lockey, run a women's adventure business
Bhubble.com - Rossland community & events
Canada Ski Quest - skier improvement courses with level 4 CSIA instructor Mark Impey
Rossland Secondary School / Red Ski Academy - One of the best high schools in Canada, according to Maclean's magazine, teams up with the most winning ski racing club in Canada, providing a flexible academic schedule and top-notch coaching to produce some of the best ski racers of the future. Free-skiing stream also available if traditional racing isn't your thing.
Tourism Rossland - a good website including links to the other tourism providers in Rossland. They also staff the Visitor Info Centre downtown
The JRP - these guys take awesome photos, are web developers, and also operate the Cat Skiing Canada website
Shopping
Butch Boutry - ski shop in Rossland, expert bootfitters
Powderhound - Outdoor store, skis, clothing, gear, and alpine touring equipment rental. The owner was a top mountain guide.
Ross Vegas Boardshop - Snowboarding fashion, and more, in downtown Rossland