The Maligne Lake Ski Club will be holding a lottery for the winter 2024-2025 cabin rentals. There are 59 two-night bookings and 1 three-night booking available this season. Shangrila will be available for rental from December 16, 2024 to April 19, 2025, conditions allowing. 

Please NOTE: Memberships will NOT be available for purchase between November 15-21, 2024. Be sure to purchase your membership BEFORE November 15, if you wish to participate in the lottery.

Lottery Rules

  1. Memberships will be sold till 72 hours prior to the lottery each year.  This enables enough time for the lottery database to be checked and membership payments to be received prior to the lottery. Memberships will be open again after the lottery dates assignment have been concluded.

  2. The lottery will open for members only on November 3, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. (MST) and close on November 17, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. (MST).

  3. Members will receive a password by email to login to the page where an online Lottery Application Form will be available.

  4. The lottery will be conducted on November 20, 2024 by members of the Executive along with one or more volunteer members to ensure confidence in and understanding of the process.

  5. Members may select any number of different dates from the 60 blocks available, indicating their preference from most desirable choice (#1) to least desirable choice (#60). You can not select more then one #1 choice, one #2 etc.

  6. The lottery will determine in what order the members' applications are considered for available booking dates. A random number generator will determine the order of members in each priority pool. The first available openings will be assigned to the first member in the highest priority pool, continuing through that pool prior to assigning the first member from the next priority pool.

  7. Members will be allocated the first available booking date in their order of preference. Members will only be allocated dates they have selected.

  8. Following the lottery draw, members will be notified of the outcome by 8pm, 48 hours after the lottery.

  9. The full payment of $400 will be due within 7 days of notification to secure your booking.

  10. The waiting list will be in order of who is next on the list (as determined by the random number generator during the lottery process). Openings that become available will be offered to the top ten members on the list.  The member who is highest on the list of those who have requested the available opening will be given the date.

  11. Those members who have been allocated and accepted their date will have their priority returned to the lowest level pool for the next year. Those members who have had to cancel for any reason, or who were not successful in obtaining a date will have their priority increased to the next level for next year. 

  12. Cancellations:

    1. In the event of a cancellation, please contact us. If the request is received 2 weeks prior to the  departure date, we will refund your payment in full. If not, you will lose your payment if we can not fill your date. Shangrila is a busy place, and if you have to cancel, there are others that would love to take your spot.  Please give us as much notice as possible.

    2. In the event of a safety-related closure, the executive reserves the right to cancel your reservation. A full refund will be paid in this situation.

    3. In the event of a road closure, safety-related closure, canceling due to severe weather (below -30C with the addition of wind, at Maligne Lake weather station) a full refund will be paid.

    4. In cases 12.1 to 12.3, your priority will be advanced to the next level in the following year.

    5. A member whose name is drawn and who is allocated a date will be the “Party Leader”. If you have to cancel due to illness or family, work situations you may transfer “Party Leader” to another member in good standing who is in your group.  You must inform the Maligne Lake Ski Club Board of Directors of this situation via email as soon as possible and at least 24 hours prior to your date.  This will enable us to inform the individuals giving out keys and for us to update the database.  The new Party Leader will return to the lowest priority list next year, the member who gave up the Party Leader position (and did not go with the group to the cabin) will be advanced to the next level in the following year.

  13. Membership must be maintained annually in order to remain in the lottery priority queue. If you skip a year without membership you will return to the lowest priority pool when obtaining a new membership.

NOTE: All bookings are subject to the road being open and safe snow and travel conditions. Bookings later in April have a higher chance of being cancelled due to avalanches or safety concerns; a full refund will be issued if that's the case.

Please add malignelake.skiclub@gmail.com to your "safe list" to ensure you receive emails from us. 

Please contact us if you have any questions.

MLSC Executive