Grand Forks · Boundary Country · British Columbia
The best little
hill in BC.
Over 800 feet of vertical, twenty-two runs, a T-bar and a rope tow — conceived and built in the late sixties by a group of local ski enthusiasts, and community owned ever since.
Last winter the early-bird window ran 1 October – 9 November. This season's dates and prices are not published yet — when they are, they change in one place on this site.
- 800 ft+
- Vertical
- 22
- Runs
- 2
- Lifts
- 1968
- Turning since
as the hill publishes it
off two surface lifts
a T-bar and a rope tow
built by locals
The one thing worth fixing
Four systems stand between a family and a season pass
Nothing on this hill needs fixing except this. Buying a pass today means moving between four separate services, none of which know about each other. Below on the left is that journey as the hill currently describes it. On the right is the same purchase as one page.
Today · four services
- 01
Sign a waiver on a third-party site
You leave the ski hill website for an external waiver service, fill it in, and come back on your own.
- 02
Start again in a separate ticketing portal
The pass itself is bought on a different provider entirely, with its own account and its own login.
- 03
Find and upload a portrait photo
A head-and-shoulders .jpg, per person. On a phone, at night, for a family of four, this is where it ends.
- 04
Send an e-transfer
Payment happens in your banking app, with a security answer that is printed publicly on the instructions page — so it is not really a secret.
The concept · one page
Buy the pass
One form, one screen, one payment. In order:
- Pick who the passes are for
- Take the photos on the spot, with the camera already in your hand
- Agree to the waiver in the same flow
- Pay by card
The waiver still gets signed and the photo still gets taken — they just stop being four errands. Everything the society already collects, collected once.
This is a concept site, so nothing here is live and no form on these pages collects anything. The real hill takes pass enquiries by email.
What Phoenix is
A community owned ski hill, not a resort
Placeholder photo Community owned, and it has always been
Phoenix is run by the Phoenix Mountain Alpine Ski Society, a non-profit. There is no parent company and no resort group above it — the hill is sustained by the volunteer contributions of the Boundary Community, and has been since the late sixties.
Placeholder photo Twenty-two runs, over 800 feet of vertical
Everything here comes off two surface lifts: a T-bar and a rope tow. That is the whole system, and it is enough for twenty-two runs and a terrain park.
Placeholder photo The same day lodge, over fifty years on
Within a year of opening, a new day lodge and rental shop were built. Both are still in use today, over fifty years later — cafeteria inside, rentals downstairs, nothing wasted.
Season passes
What a winter here costs
A season pass is the thing that keeps the lifts turning on a hill with no owner to fall back on. The figures below are the last schedule Phoenix published — headed 2025-2026 Season Pass — reproduced here exactly, not updated.
- Adult 19+
- $620
- Youth 13–18
- $310
- Senior 65+
- $400
early bird
early bird
early bird
2025-2026 schedule · excludes GST and processing · this coming season's prices are not published yet.
All passes & day tickets
Placeholder photo Reaching the hill
Out of season, email is the only way through
The hill's phone number is published as in-season only. That is completely normal for a volunteer-run society — but it means that for half the year, one address carries every enquiry. So this site puts it everywhere, instead of burying it on a contact page.
It started with a handle-tow near Marshall Lake
A dedicated group of local ski enthusiasts went looking for something better, found the perfect location on nearby Deadman Ridge, and built a ski hill. The season still ends with a flying dummy contest.