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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Old freestyle training jumps (hard to see on pic but assume that under the snow beneath them is a lake or river).
From the days when full-double-fulls were the buzzwords rather than corked switch whatevers...
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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This thread reminds me of when we went to La Molina when I was a girl. The brochure had described the hotel as on a couple of hundred meters from the nearest lift but we were a lot further out than that. We went hiking through the trees and eventually located the old abandoned wooden (rotting) chair lift.
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Funny this thread should pop up. Drove past Fortress Mountain on the way back from Jasper only just yesterday... totally abandoned, apart from catskiing... there was fresh POW everywhere... Wasted... but money shortage apparantly.
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There is a thread on epicski about abandoned ski resorts.
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Funny this thread should pop up. Drove past Fortress Mountain on the way back from Jasper only just yesterday... totally abandoned, apart from catskiing... there was fresh POW everywhere... Wasted... but money shortage apparantly. |
Fortress was a great little hill with an old wooden hotel very reminiscent of the Shining. I thought The Inception money had enabled them to fix the bridge & road so potentially it could get going again.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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You know it makes sense.
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indeed have got hooked into this today - found this below - 601 (!) abandoned areas in Adirondacks in NY State - I assume many like the single-lift village slopes throughout the Valais in Switzerland (interesting project would be to ski them all one season)
http://www.nelsap.org/
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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I always think ghost towns are always very intriguing, these abandoned ski resorts even more so!
Now I have something to make the next 3 hours of my night shift go a little quicker!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Funny this thread should pop up. Drove past Fortress Mountain on the way back from Jasper only just yesterday... totally abandoned, apart from catskiing... there was fresh POW everywhere... Wasted... but money shortage apparantly.
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I have heard it is going to reopen and may have three times the acrerage. Asfatbob, says, the bridge was fixed by the movie Inception and they are working towards opening it. They update their facebook page occasionally with details.
Fortress is hardly enroute from Jasper?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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There are even bits of abandoned lift infrastructure here in Iceland. I should snap some photos next time.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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How do you drive through Kannanaskis on route between Calgary and Jasper? Red Deer or LL routes surely?
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A few of the smaller resorts have also been shut down here in Austria
e.g. Pettneu & Lilienfeld
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