Fortress Mountain Resort
| Fortress Mountain | |
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| Location |
Kananaskis, Alberta Canada
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| Nearest city |
Calgary 115 km - (71 mi.) |
| Coordinates | 50°49′40″N 115°12′06″W / 50.82778°N 115.20167°WCoordinates: 50°49′40″N 115°12′06″W / 50.82778°N 115.20167°W |
| Vertical | 700 m - (2300 ft) |
| Top elevation | 2500 m - (8200 ft) |
| Base elevation | 1800 m - (5905 ft) |
| Skiable area | 13.4 km² - (3311 acres) |
| Snowfall | 600–900 cm (236–354.5 in) |
Fortress Mountain is a ski resort in Kananaskis Country, Alberta, Canada.
The resort is situated on a 13.4 km2 (3,300 acres) Provincial Crown Lease surrounded by Spray Valley and Peter Lougheed Provincial Parks. The ski area occupies 0.004% of the total Kananaskis area which encompasses 4211 km². The original lease was granted in 1967 which pre-dates both Kananaskis Country itself by 11 years as well as the Provincial parks which now surround it.
The resort is located on Kananaskis Trail (115 km west of Calgary). It is owned and operated by Fortress Mountain Holdings Ltd.
Before being purchased by Fortress Mountain Holdings Ltd., the area had previously been owned by Banff Rail Company, as well as Resorts of the Canadian Rockies (RCR). Aspen Skiing Co. owned the resort in the 1970s and 80s.
In early December 2009, scenes from the film Inception were shot there. In December 2011 the resort hosted the cast and crew from The Bourne Legacy. The area has been featured in many other movies such as Van Helsing, Brokeback Mountain, RV, The Claim, The Revenant, Inception, as well as many television commercials.
In the 1980s, an additional T-bar was installed in parallel to the back side of the Curve T-bar to bring skiers from the base of the far-side chair back up to the front side. One summer Hugh Smyth, then manager of Blackcomb who also worked at Fortress, took this additional T-bar apart and took it to Blackcomb and installed it on Blackcomb glacier, thereby making Blackcomb’s high alpine glacier more accessible.
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