Vancouver Island Snowboarding
British Columbia,
Canada
Snowboarding mountains on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada are near the communities of Courtenay and Port McNeill, BC. There is Mount Washington which is near Courtenay (central Vancouver Island) and there is Mount Cain which is near Port McNeill (north Vancouver Island).
Snow arrives at the higher elevations from late November on Vancouver Island and continues falling into late April. Snow usually falls only in the mountains but in recent years snow has been falling more regularly at the lower elevations in the communities.
Almost every year Vancouver Island ski mountains record some of the highest levels of snowfall of all BC mountains. In some years, the snow fall on Vancouver Island has been record
breaking, like in 1995, the snow reached over 600 cm (20 feet) on
Mount Washington.
Mount Washington is the larger ski and snowboard hill on the island. There are accommodations, restaurants, pubs, child care, lessons, gift shops, ski shops and equipment rentals in the village.
Mount Washington has two terrain parks. The Upper Terrain Park is
a chute of snow starting from the offloading
area near the Whiskey Jack Chair. The terrain park includes
jumps, rails, rollers, wall rides and snow mounds. The Lower Terrain
Park is an obstacle course of snow mound jumps with some rollers.
The mountain slopes on Mount Washington - front and back combined - are covered with over 60+ ski runs. A T-bar services the green runs. The blue and black runs on the front side of the mountain are serviced by the Hawk High speed, Eagle Express Six Pack Chair,
Whiskey Jack Triple Chair and the Sunrise Quad.
The double black
runs located on the backside of Mount Washington are accessed
by the Boomerang Quad. This chair lift has an interesting dismount including a quick downhill mound and a quick turn into a tunnel. Do not miss the turn. Great tree runs here.
There are accommodations on Mount Washington. The next closest
accommodations are only a 1/2 hour to an hour away in the communities located at the base of the
mountain - Courtenay, Comox, Campbell
River and Saratoga
Beach .
Mount Cain is the smaller snowboard hill located further north
on Vancouver Island near the community of Port McNeill. It is 60 minutes from Port McNeill to the mountain driving along the highway and dirt roads.
Bring chains or phone ahead for
road conditions.
There are accommodations on Mt. Cain, although
few. Most of the accommodations are located in the northern communities
including Port
Hardy and McNeill.
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