Tag: Fortress Mountain
Alberta’s Ski Resorts Go Year-Round
Reading Time: 3 minutesAll-season Ambitions Put Alberta Ski Resorts At A Crossroads Alberta is pushing ahead with a major transformation of its mountain tourism sector, unveiling a new legislative framework to foster year-round […]
Read more »More Fortress
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou might remember seeing Alberta’s presently closed Fortress Mountain as an alpine backdrop in the 2010 Leonardo DiCaprio blockbuster Inception. Or maybe you just dreamt that you did. If you […]
Read more »Your Run – Buyer’s Guide 2014
/Reading Time: 6 minutesOvaltine shaken, not stirred » Marty McLennan’s interview with John Eaves (“The Great Canadian Fall Guy,” December 2012) brought back some memories. My old neighbour and friend Mike Godfrey was […]
Read more »Best of Skiing in Canada awards 2013
/Reading Time: 13 minutesby Leslie Woit in Winter 2013 issue Light powder, hot chocolate, cute liftees? What makes you happy on the hills? We’ve spent another year up and down the mountains, the […]
Read more »No Pussyfooting Around
/Reading Time: 8 minutesby Pat Lynch in the December 2012 issue With Castle and Fortress, Alberta has what it takes when it comes to redefining resort-based cat skiing Come back when it’s good.” […]
Read more »Short Turns: Spring 2012 issue
/Reading Time: 3 minutes X GAMES ❖ With athletes well beyond Canadian colours dedicating performances to Sarah Burke, Aspen ’s X Games in late January were a show of brute strength, enormous alpine circus acts […]
Read more »9 for the Road
/Reading Time: 13 minutesIt was the greatest run of a fabulous season. What appeared as a dusting of snow on the access road became eight cm in the parking lot and, as we […]
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