Big White Ski Resort buried in snow. Big White Ski Resort Big White Ski Resort, or simply Big White, is a ski resort located southeast of Kelowna in the Southern Interior of British Columbia. Located on Big White Mountain, the highest summit in the Okanagan Highland, an upland area between the Monashee Mountains and the Okanagan Valley, it is the third largest resort in British Columbia, after Whistler-Blackcomb and Sun Peaks. The mountain summit is at with a vertical drop of , serviced by 16 lifts. The mountain receives 750 cm of annual snowfall. It has of overall skiable terrain. With of night skiing,
Red-lored whistler Red-lored whistler The red-lored whistler ("Pachycephala rufogularis") is a species of bird of the whistler family Pachycephalidae that is endemic to Australia. Alternate names for the red-lored whistler include the buff-breasted whistler and red-throated whistler. The red-lored whistler is similar, in many respects, to Gilbert's whistler, to which it is closely related, and from which it must be distinguished: the range of the red-lored whistler falls entirely within that of the Gilbert's whistler. The two species share the same habitat, behaviour and even many calls. John Gould, who described both species, was not familiar with the Gilbert's whistler: this is