All Commercial General Liability (CGL) insurance and Sport Accident Insurance Policy (SAIP) purchased during the 2023/2024 season will expire as of July 1st 2024. Because of this, all insurance must be renewed for anyone participating in summer programs on or before this date. To make this transition easier BC Alpine will be accepting early registrations for the 2025 season as of June 15, 2023. Clubs running summer programs must have their registrations for both coaches and participants completed before the summer programs get underway.
Increased Membership Fees – BC Alpine
For the 2024/25 season, BC Alpine has increased its membership fees by 4% to account for inflation. The BC Alpine Board of Directors has also approved a $2 per member fee to subsidize the costs associated with reporting through our Safe Sport mechanism and the independent third party handling all complaints. Distributing the fee to all members ensures BC Alpine clubs and individual members are not deterred from utilizing the reporting system due to financial constraints. Alpine Canada have also increased their membership fees by an average of 8.6% (varies by category). Influencing factors for this increase include inflation, cost of providing service and enhanced programming (SnowStars).
You can’t purchase a FIS card or membership directly from BC Alpine. In order to be a member, you must register through one of our member clubs. A full list of current clubs and their contact information can be found at https://bcalpine.com/contact/
Access to all RCR Areas: Fernie, Kicking Horse, Kimberley and Nakiska
CWSAA has just been informed that RCR will be issuing a season pass again to all CWSAA Competitor Passholders for the 2023/24 season. Please notify all ski clubs and athletes / parents that have been issued 2023/24 CWSAA Competitor Pass of the direct lift to access process.
Steps:
Athlete & Coach to fill out on-line waiver (link is below).
After completing the waiver, they will enter their ‘Pass Release Agreement ID” that is generated at the end of the waiver process.
Step Two – enter in personal information including CWSAA Pass Number.
RCR will approve and send email confirmation they have been approved. Please allow 3 to 4 days for this process to be completed.
They can go to any one of Resorts of the Canadian Rockies ski resorts and pick up their season pass.
The seasons pass issued with this application is valid only for the person whose photograph appears on it. Should any other person attempt to use this pass it will be confiscated without rebate and that person will be prosecuted under the Criminal Code of Canada.
In the event of misconduct or non-observation of the ski area safety regulations (or Skiers Responsibility Code) on the part of the pass holder, he/she will be prohibited use of the lifts as determined by the management.
The holder of this pass assumes all risk of personal injury or loss or damage to property.
The season pass is nontransferable.
If lost or stolen, there is a $20 charge for a replacement pass.
Passholders without their pass may receive a lift ticket on the first occurrence. On additional days the pass-holder will be required to purchase a replacement pass.
This pass remains the property of Resorts of the Canadian Rockies Inc and affiliated companies and resorts.
Sign up is now online for the BC Alpine 2023/24 season Officials Update. This event is available to anyone who is interested, but we have limited capacity for the in-person portion, so please sign up as soon as possible if you intend to attend!
Sign up via the calendar (dark blue button below) with your ACA Officials Profile in order to get attendance credit on your officials transcript.
Also, to help us better plan for the event, please complete the required form using the light button below.
An official agenda will come out closer to the event time, but expect a similar schedule to last season with the meeting running from noon through 5pm and including rule updates for the season, case studies from previous seasons and overviews of what’s happening with this year’s race calendar in British Columbia. – Keven
Alpine Canada Alpine has introduced a new fee for athletes who are participating in an international program outside of Canada and electing to start in FIS competitions.
Examples of programs that Canadian athletes participate in outside of Canada include (but are not limited to): • USA Academies (Burke Mtn, GMVS etc.), • USA Universities (Montana State, UVM, Plymouth etc.) • USA Colleges (Post secondary etc.) • USA Clubs (Steamboat, Vail, Palisades / Tahoe etc.) • International club or academy programs (ISRA, LIT, Orsatus, Apex2100 etc.)
In order to provide the service required to support these athletes while residing and competing outside of Canada, an annual fee of $150.00 CAD is now applicable.
More information about this annoucement is available via ACA’s release on the fee linked HERE.
Athletes who fall into this criteria should contact KevenD@BCAlpine.com in order to register in this new program so that they maintain FIS start eligibility.
All BC Alpine FIS-registered athletes who are actively training and competing in FIS sanctioned events and were born between 2003-2007 are eligible to apply for a CWSAA All Areas Pass for the 2023-24 season. Please note that both the clubs as well as the applicants each have an application process to complete by the Aug 11 deadline. This is different than previous seasons where only the clubs had to specify a list of eligible candidates by the deadline so please share this post with eligible cardholders.
Applicants: All eligible athletes and coaches need to fill out the appropriate 1Risk waiver before the Aug 11 deadline. An overview of the process as well as the link to the appropriate waiver depending on your age as well as province of residence is available at THIS LINK. Please read the document fully and pick the appropriate link at the bottom.
Clubs: As in previous seasons, BC Alpine clubs must use the “All Area Passes” tab found in https://clubreg.bcalpine.com to specify which athletes/coaches will be applying for passes this season.
Passes will only be allocated to qualified athletes and coaches who have both completed their 1Risk Release Agreement by August 11, 2023 and have been submitted by their club to BC Alpine.
