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The hill

Ten runs, a park, and the lights to use them

Bear Mountain is a small hill run properly. Ten named runs and a terrain park, snowmaking since the 1987–88 season and hill lighting since 1970–71 — about seven kilometres from Dawson Creek.

Runs
10

plus a terrain park

Volunteer-run since
1959

the association formed 1959–60

Hill lighting
1970–71

night skiing since that season

Snowmaking
1987–88

installed for that season

From Dawson Creek
7 km

the distance the club gives

Volunteer share of costs
40%

of operating costs, per the club

Skiers spread out across a wide snowy run below a ridge of snow-laden trees under a deep blue sky Placeholder photo

Getting up the hill

One lift, and two upgrades that changed the place

Two decisions did more for this hill than anything else. Lighting for the 1970–71 season, which meant people could ski after work instead of only at weekends. Snowmaking for 1987–88, which meant the season no longer depended entirely on what the sky delivered.

The lift itself we have deliberately left undescribed — see the note at the bottom of this page.

Lighting
1970–71
Snowmaking
1987–88
Runs
10

Terrain

Ten runs you can learn the names of in a season

This is a hill you get to know. Ten runs and a park — small enough that regulars talk about them by name, big enough that a family can spend a whole winter here.

  • Main
  • Bradford
  • West
  • Havards
  • Big Bear
  • Knox
  • Old Road
  • Easy Way Down
  • Bobs Run
  • the Chute

  • The ten runs

    Ten names that have been on this hill a long time, from Main and Old Road through to Big Bear and the Chute. Enough that a regular has a favourite and an opinion about it.

  • The terrain park

    The hill carries a terrain park alongside the runs. The club has not published what is in it season to season, so this concept does not guess.

  • After dark

    Hill lighting went in for the 1970–71 season. Night skiing has been part of how this hill works for over fifty years — it is what makes a weekday visit possible.

The green, blue and black markers above are decorative placeholders. Bear Mountain has not published a difficulty rating for each run, so this concept does not assign one.

A skier in a yellow jacket turning through deep snow between birch and spruce trunks Placeholder photo
A parent and two children skiing down a wide groomed run lined with evergreens Placeholder photo

Terrain park

There is a park. What is in it changes.

Bear Mountain runs a terrain park alongside its ten runs. What sits in it — how many rails, how many jumps, when the crew rebuilds it after a thaw — is exactly the sort of thing a hill's own people know and a website never says.

In a real build this section would be a short, dated list the park crew can edit in a minute from a phone. We have left it empty rather than invent one.

A snowboarder airborne off a jump with tall spruce and pine trees filling the background Placeholder photo

The trail map, the vertical and the lift

Three things we would not guess at

The trail map belongs to the club, so it is not reproduced here — in a real build it would sit on this page as a zoomable image that works on a phone. The vertical drop figure that circulates online comes from third parties, not from the club, so we have left it out. And the lift is described nowhere on this site by type: the club's own About page and third-party listings do not agree on what is standing at the bottom of the hill today. That is the club's fact to state, not ours.

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