Snowsure: 3.8
- Occasionally gets enough snow for skiing
- Is often closed due to a lack of snow
- Occasionally suffers from a lack of snow
- Rarely suffers from a lack of snow
- Castle Mountain Resort is snowsure even in the poorest seasons
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March 13, 2011
Bert
Bert
March 12, 2011
Be well
Be well
The fact that you people take time to come online and write bad things about a place is interesting. Are we not just out there to have fun and enjoy ourselves? Just don't come back if it is that bad, honestly, why would you? The very first time I went to Castle I drove 3 hours. It sucked, the whole mountain was ice. We took one run than drove home. Two weeks later we went in April. They got hammered. It was chaos. The web site said over 100cm, true or not, who knows. The only thing I would say is the hostel could give better rates to people plus. What other ski resort do you get hugs before getting onto the lift?
March 11, 2011
Bert
Bert
I have also had those epic days at Castle, They do happen but.. the crappy days far outnumber them. I have had heli like snow on a Sunday and by the next weekend the place was closed by the chinook. Some seasons there that place was closed for lack of snow and somewhere we skied the same snowdrift for six weeks. Will, I use a probe to test base depth. Was skiing those south chutes long before they could be accessed by lift. It is so amusing to read the comments about the snow being so good. It is way above the norm this year for quantity but still gets slabbed up by the warm winds. Usually dirt and wood are the problem on most of that hill and you know it.
I will still say that when it is good it is real good, you just have to be lucky to hit that day or ski there a lot and you will get those days. I have a little over 2000 days on that hill and have had a few good ones.
March 10, 2011
Fernie Skier
Fernie Skier
March 10, 2011
Dilbert
Dilbert
Castle mountains management sometimes seems like they know what they are doing. The snow they do get is very good if you know where to go. Doing laps down center you're not likely to find anything but hard packed crap. March 1st 2011 will probably be one of the more epic days of my life. I love cmr (Castle Mountain Resort) and will shred there till I can't walk.
March 08, 2011
Bert
Bert
Would have to agree the website and ski report can not be trusted. Simply amazing how they report snow when there is no new anywhere in the area. Really cracks me up when they are reporting all this fresh and I am kicking up the dust on the gravel road on the way out from town. Even funnier to listen to all the pissed off Calgary dudes in the "non existent" line ups complaining about the ski report.
The word is getting around. They have no credibility in telling anything close to the truth. The POA that makes the decisions as to how the hill is run have ruined the place since taking over from the Westcastle Development Authority.
One of them told me the other day they can handle 2000 people with out a lineup. There was a few 100 people there that day and line ups. Lift lines were not bad of course as everyone was in line to buy a ticket or in line to buy food in the lodge since they don't open the T-bar until the hill is closed and the ticket office staff are confused when they have more than two customers at a time.
There have been days this year with hour and a half lift line ups.
Place is a total joke when it comes to providing service.
March 08, 2011
Will
Will
I was at Castle Mountain Resort 3 days last week and the powder was indeed deep enough that you needed a snorkel. And where exactly do you get a 60cm base from? Did you dig a hole and measure the base depth with a meter stick? Cause if you are estimating, try again. How do you explain a 60cm base when they've had over 500cm of snow mid-mountain year to date? That doesn't quite add up. Castle mountain is acclaimed in many regional editorials and many ski destination websites as being a very unknown 'gem' in the Alberta Rockies. In every article I have read, they have nothing but good things to say and rave that everyone should try out the resort, at least once. If Castle Mountain was such a terrible hill with no base, ancient scary lifts, relentless wind and bad snow no one would go there, no one would give it any praise and they would have closed the hill years ago. Obviously, there has to be something good about the place or no one would live up there and nobody would be raving about how good it is. So if you don't like Castle Mountain, stay away and keep your uneducated, misleading comments to yourself. For those of us who love Castle, know why we do and we won't stop going there.
March 07, 2011
Mr W
Mr W
March 05, 2011
FernieRider
FernieRider
March 05, 2011
Bert
Bert
Guess you didn't understand. Castle reports a 155cm base but in reality it is about 60cm. That is less than half of 200cm.
Yesterday they reported epic powder and wind sift. It was hard wind slab and crust and prime to eat up knees. Busy day with injuries and I assisted getting a guy off; desperado after he ripped his leg up in the crust. Epic day indeed and some of the worst snow I have seen in sometime but....Castle snow report is snorkel deep. What a joke!
Nothing changes at this place, such a bush league excuse for a "Resort" as they call it. The new locals there wouldn't know good skiing if they ever had it, they are just happy they are not bouncing off the dirt like usual.
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