Big White is AWESOME! The Big White Challenge!

The what...?

Glad you asked. Imagine it is 2024, July 19th to be exact. It is the 10 year anniversary of Big White becoming a summer resort. What will have happened in those 10 years?

Lets speculate a little...

Major Brunt, back in the old days.

Big White became its' own entity in 2018. Major Jude Brunt has just been elected for her third term in office. She is still working 18 hours a day... She is threatening to have a day off but Minister Ballingall has requested this be postponed... indefinitely. The population has grown exponentially, there are now 2000 permanent residents at Big White, the school from an inauspicious start with 12 kids, enjoys 300, the old school still exists, next to the 10 classroom one.

With the municipal status property values recovered, we are now back to and above the peak of 2008... 'I should have bought in 2014 when prices were at rock bottom... shoulda, coulda, woulda... but didn't(a). Yeah... me neither.

The resort is now all season, the community, business and social is vibrant, we are the darling of the province... as Minister Ballingall likes to espouse in his daily tweets to the press. Growth seems unstoppable, the new man made lake

Minister B, Hydrating pre the
Big White Challenge run.

situated on the old Happy Valley parking lot attracts thousands escaping the summer heat of the valley. Ballingall is often seen at Big White's own annual International Food and Culture festival, usually at the Australia booth, drinking an expensive red (are there other types...?) 

The numerous festivals attracts the very best... the floating stage on Rhonda lake was a brilliant idea, the cliff and its natural amphitheatre shape is the perfect venue for small and large performers.

The catalyst and the beginning of all this - the original hiking trail - renamed 'The Hike of a Thousand Inukshuks.' With its own annual 'rebuild the inukshuk festival' attracting over 4000 inukshuk volunteers every Canada day weekend.

We can do it too!

The hike is also the home of the Big White Challenge. Back in 2014 Christof Lummy Pie ran the new trail, two days before the official trail opening. The idea hit his oxygen starved brain whilst on what turned out to be the inaugural run. 'What if this trail became a running challenge, not a mass race but a challenge for everyone?' The idea fermented... and now after thinking about it for at least seven minutes we have a Facebook Page...

Exciting? Yes? Then lets have some fireworks!

Actually, it was not all me... all of the speculation...? Yes, the catalyst for the start... not really, credit has to go to Big White's President Mr. Plimmer, his team and the Chamber of Commerce Members volunteering their valuable time, knowledge and energy. Kudos to you all!

Of course... It is just speculation, but what if, what if...? We are now on a path forward... an AWESOME... a Big White AWESOME... path.