Access to new mountain faces for 2025-26 ski season

New chairlifts to unreached mountain faces are popping up around Alberta heading into the 2025-26 skiing season.

At Castle Mountain, which hugs the southern edge of the B.C. border, the Stagecoach Express is the first lift expansion at the resort since 2006 — and in some ways, marks the end of an era.

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“I would say, at least in part, it was a function of good timing,” said Cole Fawcett, manager of marketing for the park.

Plans for a new chairlift had been in place as far back as 2017, with the resort deciding to finally pull the trigger after a four-person lift went up for sale at the nearby Sunshine Village in Banff.

“Our friends at Sunshine are quite literally just up the road in the grand scheme of the North Ame

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