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02-07-2019, 07:39 PM #551Registered User
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02-07-2019, 07:41 PM #552
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02-07-2019, 08:13 PM #554
Yeah for sure... A lot of the character will be lost as well.
The old lodge was a neat old building... But when RCR abandoned the place the turned the heat off and didn't drain the pipes.. They had a burst water main and the building filled up with mold and needed to be torn down.
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02-07-2019, 09:07 PM #555
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02-07-2019, 10:08 PM #556Registered User
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Remember when we were kids and the snow was soooooo deep. Same effect.
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02-07-2019, 11:03 PM #557Registered User
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I think this has about a snowballs chance in hell of actually happening. Sunshine, Nakiska, and Lake Louise are going to come out swinging to stop this. RCR killed fortress once in 2004 and I don't doubt for a second that they can do it again 15 years later.
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02-07-2019, 11:27 PM #558
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02-07-2019, 11:50 PM #559Registered User
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Very fond memories of Fortress from back in the day. I was really into moguls back in the skinny days and that place would mogul up beautifully in the spring. hope it happens.
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02-08-2019, 09:55 AM #560
So weekend trips to KH, Revelstoke, and Fernie, and weeks at SunPeaks/Silverstar/Bigwhite equals daytrippers from Calgary to SV and LL? I wouldn't say the hills are full, but there is a lack of affordable or ski in ski out accomodation in Jasper and Banff.
Snow quality: Fernie, Revelstoke, KH will have better snow and coverage during Christmas break, and possibly family day if they can avoid rain, but SV and LL would have better snow quality during spring break.
My girlfriend is an intermediate skier. She likes easy, chill off piste. Cheap hills like Norquay and Nakiska don't really offer this (except Monster Glades and Bruno's gully). So I could see Fortress filling this void for a lot of skiers.
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02-08-2019, 11:13 AM #561Registered User
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"The issue in these regions is a weak layer at lower elevations, which means the snowpack at and below treeline is more dangerous than the alpine. Forecasters are concerned this unusual situation may catch some backcountry recreationists off guard. Many close-calls involving this layer have been reported over the past few days and with the coming weekend, more people will be heading out into the mountains."
from avalanche.ca ^^
I was in Sunrise hut last week the bad layer there was managable
I kicked off a few small 8" thick slabs below treeline during the week maybe the size of a car
Then a big dump on thursday was so reactive the guides did one ski cut just below the shitter and called off skiing
nobody complained, there was pow everywhere but not a cm to skiLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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02-08-2019, 05:50 PM #562
Have a buddy who proposed this the SRD when it closed the last time and they took back the lease. They insisted that the land use designation only allows for a public ski area. He has been hassling them ever since as the owners have been running it as anything but. I’ll be extremely surprised if it opens next year, or ever, they were supposedly all ready to go back in 2016, except for no money, or applications for building permits, or anything else that indicated they were really going to build.
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02-08-2019, 06:30 PM #563
Anyone have some beta on kicking horse conditions? Currently in Fernie and thinking of heading that way.
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02-08-2019, 06:35 PM #564
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_con...&v=UN6Aqx_kIR8
Can’t wait for lift 15 to be installed in the year 3000...where are they going to get the $ to control all this avy terrain while staying a small family ski hill? I like the idea of the family biathlon?
This idea looks doomed! Another story of investors dooped....guess the investors will find that out when they start asking where that awesome skating lake in the promo video surrounded by glaciers is and find out it is Lake Louise 2.5-3hrs away...Last edited by teamdirt; 02-08-2019 at 07:04 PM.
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02-08-2019, 07:36 PM #565
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02-08-2019, 08:00 PM #567
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02-08-2019, 08:13 PM #568charge on jong
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02-09-2019, 06:55 PM #569Registered User
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I think there are a number of reasons for 50% of Alberta ski days are outside the province. Skiing is typically a relatively high cost venture, middle class , more accurately upper middle class. A lot of those folks have places either in the Invermere Valley, Fernie, Golden or even Montana. I know even more that are getting places in the Okanagan. If you have vacation property, if you are Calgarian, it is likely in BC or Montana for skiers.
For me, sitting in Calgary, it is a major ordeal to pack up all the gear, load up the car and head to the mountains with an 1.5 or 1.75 hour drive to a hill for a day skiing. It seems odd, but that was why we put the kids into the BAR program at Norquay, it forced us to get out at least once a week for 10 weeks in winter. Add some trips to visit my brother in Invermere and then Golden, we got some good days in. My daughter taught at Nakiska for a winter and that was hellish. Overcrowded, bad skiers, and IMO, very poorly designed trail system. Dangerous place IMO. My kids spent two years in the freeskiing program at Sunshine after we were done with BAR (none wanted to race). Very crowded, and seldom lived up to its’ name prior to mid-March.
Like many in ur neighbourhoods, having a place in PAno, Fernie or KH, with shorter drives to the hills, it is easier to drive out Friday night, back Sunday and be that much closer to the hills.
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02-10-2019, 12:00 PM #570
-34 this monring in banff, big inversion and looks like the cold is being pushed out too.
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02-10-2019, 12:10 PM #571
While I think you may be overly harsh Rob and Dirt, I wonder if you may have some semblance of a point... I haven't skied there since 1992. Having said that, my first ski day was there in 1977, my first season pass was there, I have such great memories of the place... I can't help but wish it well. And, it is in a snow pocket...
I'd say that the Alberta ski hills being full is bullshit. I've been skiing Castle, Louise and SSV for the last 6 seasons and have perhaps twice in a couple of hundred days seen lineups that have made me cringe. People aren't leaving Alberta to ski because of the lineups, they are leaving for the reasons dufferdan explained below:
Yeah, I'd ski there too for old times sake. I think the reasons it closed were explained quite well in the article https://www.rmoutlook.com/article/fo...ening-20190207. I've no reason to doubt them.
I agree Reckless.
No it's not. It's because of the reasons stated by Dufferdan. And yes, the singles at that gas station are tits.
No they are not. And the fries and the wall jump were great.
Shorty, I haven't seen the busyness myself even on weekends.
Good point.
It's the fucking rockies thread, you don't want to read about a resort in the rockies potentially re-opening, then ignore/skip/don't read the posts about it.
Fuck.
Same going on at Castle. -30 at the bottom, -13 at the summit. Fuck. Oh well, the Red didn't spin yesterday so there will be pow up top.“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
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02-10-2019, 01:15 PM #572
I guess busy is relative. SSV and Louise aren't busy compared with big US resorts, but I've experienced two days with some pretty decent lift lines just this season.
And the article has only 1 short paragraph on the reasons it shut down. I'm sure that was part of it but seems pretty simplistic. I think it's safe to say there were likely other factors as well.
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02-10-2019, 06:46 PM #573
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02-10-2019, 08:49 PM #574Registered User
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Wow, what a sleeper of a day at the Shine. 15 degree inversion and the Dive skied great for once this season.
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02-10-2019, 09:00 PM #575Registered User
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But even those two days at the Lake weren't that bad. Ok, my friends bitched that Big Friday (January) was bad (due to not much opening?) but Day After Saturday was busy but fine IMO, skied fresh lines at the end of the day still. Same with last weekend's dump, Saturday was busy but nothing compared to what all of us experience in Fernie/Kicking Horse.
I can't remember any lines at SSV once up on the hill. Even rope drops/Dive opening (last season) have been mellow affairs.
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