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,
Bismarck whistler Bismarck whistler The Bismarck whistler ("Pachycephala citreogaster") is a species of bird in the family Pachycephalidae, which is endemic to the Bismarck Archipelago north-east of New Guinea. Prior to 2015, the western whistler was considered as a subspecies of the Australian golden whistler until recognized as a separate species. Some other authorities still consider it to be a subspecies of a wide-ranging golden whistler, but strong published evidence in favour of either treatment is limited, and further study is warranted to resolve the complex taxonomic situation. Five subspecies are recognized: The males of the Bismarck whistler are white-throated unlike the