British Columbia is well-known for its legendary snowpack and deep, wide-ranging mountains. While places like Whistler and Revelstoke have well-deserved reputations for deep snow and expansive terrain, BC is home to numerous small, local ski hills that offer much more than the sum of their parts. Shames Mountain, outside of Terrace, BC, is one such place.
Facing closure in 2008, with no prospects of purchase on the horizon, the local community banded together to create the first non-profit cooperative ski area model in Canada, My Mountain Co-Op. Shames My Mountain Co-Op, made up of local individuals, businesses, societies, and corporations, worked together to purchase the mountain in 2011 and operate the hill as a community. Today, a decade later, Shames Mountain remains open and serves as a model for local resorts across the globe.
Heart of the Mountain is the story of how a community saved their mountain and changed the model of how a ski resort is run.
