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Banff Sunshine is the first ski resort in Canada to feature a high-speed quad with heated seats and bubbles. This chair was constructed in 2015 and is known as Teepee Town XL. [7] The annual snowfall is up to thirty feet (over nine metres). [8]
Eagle Mountain is a 2,836-metre (9,304-foot) mountain summit located immediately northeast of the Banff Sunshine ski resort in Banff National Park of Alberta, Canada.The mountain's toponym was officially adopted in 1958 by the Geographical Names Board of Canada. [3]
Mount Howard Douglas is a 2,877-metre (9,439-foot) mountain summit located immediately east of the Banff Sunshine ski resort in Banff National Park of Alberta, Canada.It was named for Howard Douglas (1850-1929), a park superintendent credited with greatly expanding its size. [4]
Rope tows were installed in 1942 and the mountain was the second in Canada to install a chairlift in 1948 (Red Mountain Resort was the first, in 1947), with a vertical drop of 1,400 feet (425 m). [3] Norquay offered three regular big vertical daily awards in the form of a pin for 25,000 feet for a bronze, 30,000 for silver and 35,000 for a gold ...
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Mount Saskatchewan is a mountain located in the North Saskatchewan River valley of Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada. J. Norman Collie named the mountain in 1898 for the nearby Saskatchewan River. [3] One report said Collie so named it due to its possession of the headwaters of the North Saskatchewan River. [7]
Banff is a resort town in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, in Alberta's Rockies along the Trans-Canada Highway, 126 km (78 mi) west of Calgary, 58 km (36 mi) east of Lake Louise, and 1,400 to 1,630 m (4,590 to 5,350 ft) above sea level. [5] Banff was the first municipality to incorporate within a Canadian national park.
Sulphur Mountain (Nakoda: Mînî Rhuwîn) is a mountain in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains overlooking the town of Banff, Alberta, Canada. The mountain was named in 1916 for the hot springs on its lower slopes. [1] George Dawson had referred to this landform as Terrace Mountain on his 1886 map of the area.