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Revelstoke Mountain Resort (RMR) is a ski resort on Mount Mackenzie, just outside Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada. It is owned by Northland Properties . Currently, the resort has a 1,710 metres (5,620 ft) vertical drop, the longest vertical descent of any ski resort in North America.
Mount Revelstoke became the home of a ski-jumping facility in 1915; this was expanded to Olympic specifications in 1933. [4] Other downhill runs were added, and Mount Revelstoke hosted many international competitions in the first half of the century. The jump was the longest natural jump in Canada, and international records were set there.
Revelstoke (/ ˈ r ɛ v əl s t oʊ k /) is a city in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, with a census population of 8,275 in 2021. Revelstoke is located 641 kilometres (398 mi) east of Vancouver , and 415 kilometres (258 mi) west of Calgary , Alberta.
Even Revelstoke freight followed the new circuitous route via Nelson. [34] However, when winter ice closed the lake route, [35] the original wagon road via Beaton provided a rudimentary and only access. [36] CP were able to keep a channel open on the lake for the 1903/04 winter, [37] but the usual winter closure was two to three months. [38]
Nels Nelsen Hill (orig.: Big Hill) is an abandoned ski jumping hill located in Mount Revelstoke National Park near the city of Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada. The original hill, Big Hill, was built in 1916 and was the first permanent ski jump in Canada. By 1933, five world length records had been set on the Big Hill. It fell out of use in ...
The selection of a Golden–Revelstoke link via the 174-kilometre-longer (108 mi) Big Bend, rather than over the Selkirks, was the snowplowing difficulty. [119] This road finally opened in 1940. A proposal to upgrade to Trans-Canada Highway standards a decade later, determined that the Selkirks route would be cheaper, [ 120 ] and not conflict ...