A Place Truly Shaped by Skiing, at Red Mountain | "FACE OF WINTER" by Warren Miller Entertainment

A night out in Roslyn, BC is like a night out in any ski town. Great music, fun times, and lots of good looking people who only get better looking as the night goes on. But there's a flip side to all the fun and Roslyn is lucky to have a crew of local heroes who do the hard work of keeping people safe on a mountain that doesn't exactly make their job easy. We came to ride the few of its members, Duncan Browning, Jill Macney, and Andrew Duncan. A fantastic community to be part of with a bunch of dogs that crap all over the trails and if that's the biggest problem in town then I think we're doing pretty well. Ski patrol is kind of my free time. When I'm not working ski patrol I have three kids, six, three in a year and a half, raising them in a ski town. Very tightly knit group of ski patrollers here. Yeah, it is cliche but they are my family. It's pretty clear who the lifers are and who leaves after a year. Pretty obvious like anything else in a small town. If they don't fit in, they don't fit in. You start wrapping your shots in the morning and things get serious. We keep each other safe out there. I trust any of them. We're going to do the coolest route. We're going to take seven. Seven should do the trick. Thirteen plus. Cad drivers are saying it's kind of slabby. They're pretty reactive. So we're gonna chuck some bombs in some chutes and we're gonna rock and roll. When I first moved to Rosalind I started as a volunteer ski patroller. So I decided that I was going to prove myself. I had the knowledge to perform the skills that I needed to perform. I was able to show that I was dedicated to the team. I get a lot of enjoyment out of the suffering. It's kind of weird but... Come on! Snow's looking good. Let's open the mountain. Have fun skiing you guys. In the outdoors having fun and getting to ski and hike and there's community sports advocates. I love it. To be a ski patroller you can't be one thing or the other. You got to be able to adapt, react to different situations and you got to like sliding on snow. You got to be pretty good at it ideally. Andrew spends his summers as a Parks Canada ranger. Duncan grew up in England skiing on plastic. But if BC powder is all he can get he'll make do. Jill is the newbie on the team. I was the lucky recipient of the auger this week and you have to put five dollars into a beer fund. Even worse because I got augered on film so I'm expected to put ten dollars in the jar not five. But since then it's been passed on to a different patroller and he augered yesterday. They open it up and then they want to ski it first. Roslyn is truly a ski town where the people that come to live here and stay here it's because they love these mountains. There's all these layers of stories that make it's such a cool tapestry of people. Joining Olympia and Kaelin Richardson on this trip are a couple of new friends. Free ski champ Dennis Risvold of Norway and Red Mountain local phenom Simon Hillis. Simon Hillis is the key to the city. Velvet ropes up. Oh go ahead get on the chairlift like come on in. And it was really fun to see someone that is so young that the community has so much pride in. I've been putting ski boots on for ages thousands of times and the cool thing is is that it's something that the moment I slip them on there's this switch that flips where this is where I'm happiest. I loved during my time here just to take it all in. Red Mountain says it looks like everybody's skiing. Everybody that lives in town are skiers almost. It's almost like my hometown. I think it's a good tradition. Growing up in Roslyn is really good. It's a really supportive community and it's really close to the ski hill. In every ski town I go to you meet these kindred spirits. I don't know it's like a secret handshake of the skiing community where it's like yeah you and me. So I've been a ski bum for about eight years and when I moved to Roslyn I really felt a different vibe. I felt like the community just welcomed me in. Simon is the age that I was when I made the U.S. ski team. It kind of brought me back when I was on the national team. It was fun to look at him and know the next 10 years he's just gonna have a ball. A lot of this terrain would be roped off at other resorts but Red Mountain is a different kind of place owned by a collective of real skiers. Anything can change. There's a lot of variables as time goes on. The town can change, the ski hill can change but the terrain can't change and that's kind of what things that people here who've been coming here for a long time and who choose to live here and so I think there's always going to be a real course of real skiers here. Warren Miller has affected so many lives and he's affected so many lives that have affected mine. To be a part of something he created is such an honor and trying to look at the world like he did just a little bit in that adventure is worth pursuing and here at Red Mountain it seems like everyone here loves the same thing. Thanks Warren.