Castle Mountain

I don't use the terrain park and haven't spent a night at castle (i have heard it can be a good time, but your options are clearly limited) so those two categories were left blank.

On to the review. There is nothing fancy about Castle Mountain. Most of the skiing takes place on  Gravenstafel Ridge. There are two main chair lifts that run up the center of the ridge, one gets you half way and the other to the top. From the top you have your pick of long, consistantly pitched runs to the bottom. There isn't a lof of "extreme" in bounds terrain at castle, but the runs are plenty steep.

Snow tends to hold up pretty well, mostly due to low traffic. It seems to receive more snow than banff, Sunshine included.

Wind is Castle blessing and curse. The strong winds (200 km +) in southern alberta will help to fill in tracks overnight (this isn't a great bump hill), but sometimes they have trouble getting the top chair open. This makes a smallish hill very tiny.

Definately worth checking out though. I prefer it to the banff resorts.

Slow, old lifts keep the "resort" skiers away. Big winds keep whiners away. Big POW and windsift keep Castle a "skiers ski hill"

Go somewhere else if you want a message or a capaccino.