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Fernie Alpine Resort and the Community Fernie Alpine Resort is proud of our community commitment. Fernie offers industry leading programs that provide guest value, health benefits, and funds many community based non-profit volunteer groups and school programs. Did you know? Fernie Alpine Resort offers Full Season Passes to all Grade 2 students (or 7-Year Olds). Known as the Husky Snowstars Grade 2 Funpass, it provides Children a RCR season pass for only $20 (pass also includes Kimberley Alpine Resort & Nakiska Ski Area). The regular purchase price of that pass is almost $300! This industry leading initiative is part of our commitment to fighting childhood obesity and getting kids active and healthy in winter.
NO Blackout Dates! Fernie Alpine Resort is one of the only resorts in the Rockies, participating in the Canadian Ski Council’s Grade 4/5 Lift Ticket program, to not have any blackout dates on their free coupons for kids. Season Pass holders receive a huge variety of Member Benefits when they purchase a Fernie Alpine Resort season pass, including the Treat a Friend Day. The Treat a Friend Day allows members to bring a friend to Fernie Alpine Resort for a day of skiing on us! (Coupon can also be used for the Fernie Alpine Resort season pass member to try another RCR West Ski Resort as well.) We are proud to have started the FREE Community Day initiative. During both our Winter and Summer seasons, Fernie Alpine Resort is happy to offer a free day of Skiing/Riding or Mountain Biking to everyone in the community of Fernie and surrounding area! As well as our FREE lift access and FREE Ski Lessons for locals we also offer a Charity BBQ supporting local charities. Proceeds in the past have benefitted organizations such as the Fernie Food Bank & Fernie Alpine Ski Team.
Over the past 5 years, beginning in 2007, Fernie Alpine Resort has been significantly contributing to community charities, organizations, and programs through the Community Summit Fund. $150,000 has been pledged in total and we are almost there. Some of the organizations that have benefitted so far are: A Taste of Fernie, Fernie Heritage Library and Fernie & District Arts Council, Elk Valley Relay for Life, Elk Valley Society for Community Living, Emily Brydon Youth Foundation, Fernie Chamber of Commerce, Fernie Ghostriders Junior Hockey League, Fernie Writers Conference, and many many more.
After our local Olympic Athlete Emily Brydon competed in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games we honoured her passion for skiing, commitment to the community, and her achievements by naming a run on Fernie Alpine Resort after her, now simply known as “Emily’s”. Emily Brydon also runs a Non-Profit Organization known as the Emily Brydon Youth Foundation. Fernie Alpine Resort proudly donates Cash and In-Kind to use for fundraiser benefits at her Golf Tournament Fundraiser year after year. In fact, we are one of the largest supporters and co-title sponsor of the event. Emily is an amazing person and we are very proud of her! Fernie Alpine Resort, on top of the community summit fund, provides hundreds of thousands of in-kind support for non-profits in the community, social clubs, and volunteer organizations. The College of the Rockies MAST (Mountain Adventure Skills Training) program is an important part of the community and brings residents from across the world to participate in it. Fernie Alpine Resort is proud to offer each student in the MAST program a special rated season pass to encourage their training, and help support this community education program. Ski Patrol and Snow Safety education are vital to Fernie Alpine Resort. We offer snow safety education courses for free to over 1500 school aged children. Fernie also hosts events such as the Avalanche Awareness Days that teach the importance of Snow Safety and introduce our guests to avalanche dog training. The TELUS Learn-2-Ski Program has been around for some time now. It allows people to try out skiing and get an introduction to the sport. Fernie Alpine Resort encourages anyone in the community and surrounding areas not familiar with the sport to try out the TELUS Learn-2-Ski Package this season! Also offered are special in-season TELUS Learn-2-Ski weeks and $25 offers. In the summer of 2008 there was a Childcare shortage in the town of Fernie – being that there wasn’t any available! Fernie Alpine Resort made their Resort Childcare available year round to ensure the community of Fernie would have licensed childcare available if they needed it! Summer Day Camps for Kids are also available! Since the implementation of Tourism Fernie in 2007, Fernie Alpine Resort has been heavily involved through Membership, Marketing Initiatives, support and much more and looks forward to the future and continuing to work closely through our partnership with this community based organization. Fernie Alpine Resort has worked hard to make sure our resort experience is top notch for our local community. We have continued many ongoing extremely popular Community fuelled events such as the Powder, Peddle, Paddle Relay (going strong since 1984), the Dummy Downhill (29th annual in the 2011/12 season!), and the Cardboard Box Derby. Over more recent years we have introduced some new Family favourites such as the New Year’s Family Fun Party, with a special family New Year’s Countdown with sparklers at 9pm for the little ones, and the Fernie’s Got Talent event, featuring kids’ scavenger hunts and more, and of course the ever popular Ski with Santa & Photos, every Christmas Eve & Christmas Day!
At Fernie Alpine Resort we believe all children should be able to experience skiing/riding and a healthy lifestyle! We work together with schools in the area to run our Local School Group Programs, offering children $25 Lesson/Lift Access and Rental packages as part of their school activity trips. |
