This turned out so well, glad to have been a part of it!

@nathanjanuszewski

Ай бұрын

Bro knows everything in the Banff Kananaskis Region

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

Oh sure. This is nice for you to have, but it came at an insane price for taxpayers, just like the neighboring golf course, which was built for the same stupid reasons. Both were and STILL ARE a waste of crazy amounts of money! It must be SO nice to be one of the elite.

@nathanjanuszewski

Ай бұрын

@@cattymajiv he meant the video. Not the resort lmao.

@Skier72

Ай бұрын

@@cattymajiv Lol I'm not one of the "elite" (more like a university student in debt). I'm not saying that Nakiska didn't come at a big cost to taxpayers in the 1980s, but I'm not sure why that should hinder me from purchasing a seasons pass there with my own money in 2024? Also, by saying that Nakiska still is a big waste of money, are you implying that the ski resort is government subsidized? It most certainly is not.

@unpopularopinion459

Ай бұрын

Huge fan of both channels! Well done!

You forgot that Nakiska's family season pass is only $900 (early bird), so the resort gets heavily flooded with season pass holders on the weekends, even worse when it has snowed heavily the night before the long weekend.

@karl_m3013

Ай бұрын

$319 for all access Senior's pass this year

@johnpooley3

Ай бұрын

A family pass is a really cool idea

@Wallstreetavarice

29 күн бұрын

You say "worse" but this is the BEST feature of Nakiska. Without Nakiska, I can't imagine how busy Louise and Sunshine would be - and they are already plenty busy.

@DarkDramon

29 күн бұрын

@@Wallstreetavarice haha, true, I guess it depends on how you look at it. I do agree with how heavily trafficked ski hills get the more options the better to help smooth out the visitors. And I agree sunshine and louise get soooo busy on the weekends it's pretty much a deterrent to make it out there consistently.

Nice. Nakiska is indeed weird and not only for the reasons mentioned in the video. There are additional quirks. I find it uncomfortable to ski a full day at the place because many of the runs have of a sideways tilt to them you have to constantly fight. Meaning your turns are all right turns to stay on the run: right turn, straighten which makes you go left because of the angle, turn right etc.

@jeffbrown321

Ай бұрын

Yea a day skiing off-camber the whole time kinda sux. I don't mind it once in a while, but seems like a lot of the oldest resorts have more runs like this; like they're all slalom or downhill race runs where you're expected to do more sidehill as opposed to wanting to stay more consistently in the fall line.

@Richard-Burdett-Bow

Ай бұрын

Snowboarder here and I don't find it off chamfer.

@jacobiwolf77

Ай бұрын

It's called a double fall line

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

@@Richard-Burdett-Bow We wouldn't expect a boarder to understand.

@amsivertson

Ай бұрын

@@Richard-Burdett-Bowthe term is ‘camber.’

Yay finally a video on Nakiska! This is my home hill and where I’ve skied for most of my life so glad to see a Peak Rankings video on it!

While living in Calgary my favorite was Sunshine, but Nakiska is great for a day trip in the middle of the workweek. Like taking a personal day from work on an average Wednesday take the car at 8am and be skiing by 9 at Nakiska and be home for dinner. I would avoid Nakiska on weekends and holidays since it's packed.

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

Since that's all it's good for, it's a huge waste of money. But this govt has always been amazingly incompetent. They gerrymandered the electoral boudaries to such a huge extent that 1.2 million rural voters are able to control the elections. The 3 million city people have no voice at all. So the idiots in the Conservative party are able to continue mismanaging the province to a COLLOSAL extent. They robbed us of every cent of the 6 BILLION dollar Heritage Trust Fund, and never even investigated its disappearance. One day it's there, next day it's gone. Oh well. No big deal. Carry on! They are HUGE F*cking crooks!

Love nakiska. Home resort since I was a kid. For the whole permanently closed thing upper alpine thing. For upper north axe it's a natural animal highway for the park and was only permitted to be used for the Olympics. "I've seen mountain goats on that crest a lot as well.". Also it out of bounds and not patrolled. You are skiing back country at that point. Second for the bowl / platter lift. The snow pack in k-country is extremely unstable dew to the natural warm winds in the area. There are avalanches on that slope all the time !! Again in the 80s they got away with the start being up there because the run was a few meters two short for FIS at the time. Really happy to see a review of one of my favorite resorts. Also disclaimer. This is what I've bin told throughout the years. So if.i am wrong. Please let me know.

@deadskimountaineer

Ай бұрын

You are more or less correct.

Both my wife and I worked there the winter of 90-91, I was a liftee on Olympic, and she worked as a Snow Host. Back then (at least) it was great place to work, and employees had a pass to all of the other Western resorts to ski free. The winter I worked there the upper platter was running and staffed.

Should have been a big deduction for no terrain park. You are exactly correct, management is outdated and caters to ski racers only. The culture there is very bizarre, never seen so many Jerry’s in one place… hoards of them. If you are a novice or beginner that doesn’t associate with the cool kids, Nakiska is your spot.

@joshborax8764

Ай бұрын

They used to have a park, but closed it when Covid hit and never reopened it. It was actually a decent park at the time so it’s frustrating that they refuse to build it again.

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

What's a Jerry?

@bdamned_

Ай бұрын

@@cattymajiv Jerry/gaper in the ski industry “ While the origins of jerry remain fairly unclear, the term gaper comes from the gap occasionally seen between the helmet and goggles of a beginner or inexperienced skier. Both terms refer to an individual who exhibits a true lack of understanding for their sport.” Also known as a kook.

@bdamned_

Ай бұрын

@@joshborax8764 we actually complimented them on the park that season.

Good video. You are far too generous with your rating for snow. Chinook winds hammer Nakiska and the thaw / freeze cycles make for some of the worst conditions i have ever skied. The fact that Nakiska was even built (funded by government) for the Olympics is testament to the fact that government never does anything right. Such an embarassment to have the Olympics here when there were world class ski areas 30 - 60 minutes further west. Even the now defunct Fortress Mountain just down the road (which was still open in '88) had far, far better snow. I used to get a season pass at Nakiska when they used to sell them for (incredibly) around $100 CDN a decade or more in the past. I wouldn't ski there for free again. On top of the terrible conditions, awful overpriced food I also had my skis stolen there while I had lunch. Nice work on the video.

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

The entire Kananaskis developement was such a collosal waste of money! Equalled only by the subsequent theft of the entire 6 BILLION dollars in the Heritage Trust Fund, whichwas hushed up as much as the govt could do, and was never even investigated! Who cares if cabinet ministers embezzle every cent that it took the whole province a decade to save? There is much more to it, but I will restrain myself. Let it suffice to say that Nakiska and Kananaskis are still a waste of money.

@daveb5874

Ай бұрын

I feel the same way. Gave them a chance with a Family Pass for a couple of seasons. I have no plans to ever go back.

While it did get last in western Canada I'm honestly not sure if you were hard enough on it. Snow at 5 seems too high, it's VERY icy. Some sections that they can't groom become a massive sheet of polished ice. The glades usually have a huge amount of rocks and roots exposed. Crowd flow at 5 is also too high, it's so busy at the base it's insane. A half an hour wait for a chair deserves WAY WAY lower than a 5 when the runs are as short as they are. It would be different if you were skiing for a long time after the lift but you aren't. And it goes get this busy at the base frequently. Some bottlenecks on greens and blues near the base are also horrifically busy to get down, you need to go so slow to avoid everyone. Facilities 5 is also too high. I went on a busy weekend and the upper mountain restaurant literally ran out of food at 12:30pm and closed. This made the other food places twice as busy. They only had 1 lift ticket booth open and my friends had to wait in line for two full hours to get their day pass. They almost waited so long they considered buying the afternoon pass because it was 11:00am already by the time they got their day pass. I would have put it in last by a much larger margin

@darrensmith9143

Ай бұрын

Exactly right.

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

I've heard this, but never been there. The video nearly convinced me to try it if I'm ever nearby. But at that price, and with what you've said?! Thank you for saving me from a big mistake!

I call Nakiska a big Blue Mountain for those from Toronto. I ski 20-40 days there for $319 for a full seniors's pass bought early last year. Great value. Arrive early and ski the Silver chair which generally has 2=4 freshly groomed runs off it. I ski for 3 hours and I am at my desk by 1:30 PM. It is my training hill. Louise is much better when it has snow. Of course, if I am skiing in May, I go to Sunshine. I am surprised Fernie is so low on your list. When it has snow, it is epic. .

@Richard-Burdett-Bow

Ай бұрын

Great cruising mountain for groomers. Better than lake Louise or sunshine in a lot of cases., and often less icy.

@Dodger1999

Ай бұрын

But with 5 times the vertical as Blue Mountain, better snow and more challenging.

@bradkubota6968

Ай бұрын

Great that Blue Mountain is mentioned. This is like a taller (narrower) version. The best comparison for me is the horrible snow. Full grooming runs. Who ever laid out the chairs was an inept clown. You ski up off the lift and ski up onto the lift. Waste of terrain. Only upside is it thins the crowds at the real Mountain Resorts to the west. Would be nice if fortress could re open.

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

I heard Fernie is great, but when I went there, at great cost in time and $, it was sheer ice everywhere, for a whole week. So disappointing! Lake Louise would be the best hill in many ways, but it has horrible snow almost all the time. The lower altitude that makes it more easily accesible from town also causes a great deal of melting and refreezing. Most times I've been there it was 1 big slush and mud bowl. BUT when the snow is fresh and the temps are cold enough for it to last a whole day or more, it's the most beautiful hill in all of Canada that I have seen or heard of! (I have not been to Whistler Blackcomb, but the idea of all those people is not enticing to me.) Such a beautiful experience! If only we could predict the weather, we could reserve hotels on those nice days when the snow is snow, not water or ice. But mountain weather is so unpredictable that even 1 day to the next can't be predicted. And accommodation in Lake Louise is the most expensive in the south east Rockies area. If you stay in Banff, you face a very long drive. BUT if you happen to get lucky, and get good snow and colder temps, Lake Louise is a magical place! I don't live very near, so I fear I will never be able to see that magic again, but those who do get that lucky are so blessed!

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

@@bradkubota6968 Yes to every point you made!

For those who lived in Alberta prior to the 1988 Olympics, there was overall disappointment in the bad decision making and choosing the location of the ski hill. Due to its horrible location, the conditions are usually icy, which has led to probably more deaths on the ski hill than most other resorts. It's a crap ski hill. But, thanks for the realistic review.

@deadskimountaineer

Ай бұрын

The B-netting and the fact that they inject a few of their runs contributes to the injury (and death) rate.

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

You've both said pretty much what I did, but you stated these things so much better! The absolutely collosol waste of money did seem unbelievable at the time, but it soon faded, in comparison to the later loss of the entire six BILLION dollar Heritage Trust Fund! That theft was never even investigated, never mind explained to us! They just shrugged, and implied that it was fine for cabinet ministers to embezzle billions of dollars. Yet the people here are STILL brainwashed idiots who will kiss the ground that the MAGA right wing cult walks on, and believe their lies, no matter how crazy they are! I gotta get out of this horrible place. The skiing is inaccessible, and the people are unbearable! 💩😈💩😈💩

@AaronEslinger

Ай бұрын

Agreed. Almost died my first day. Don’t recommend.

@jaydowell8165

Ай бұрын

💯 Fortress should have been expanded an got the Olympic funds. Would have been a far better investment. No motorized but track ski equipment is ok? Sleds should be able to access Fortresses terrain. After this past winters closures in Boulder Mtn an the bridge pull at McBride we’ve lost over a million square Kms of accessible ride area.

@paulwestenberger3710

27 күн бұрын

@@jaydowell8165Fortress would have never hosted the Olympic events. The runs are not long enough. One of my favourite resorts of all time is Fortress but it definitely isn't made for world class downhill skiing.

This is an excellent review of a some what dubious skihill. It accurately presents the pro and cons in a very accurate and complete way. Kudos! I will definately watch more of their videos. Very well done! A big thank you for leaving the chart at14:40up for long enough for us to get a good look at it, or to easily pause and read it. Most videos flash text on the screen so fast that it's a big challenge to even pause it, which is is very disruptive to the experience of watching a video. Usually, by the time you've realized you need to pause to see something important, 2 or 3 other text things have also flashed by already, making it difficult and very disruptive to pause and read 1 or more of them. I wonder why on earth most video makers are so afraid of adding time to a video, especially when in most cases, in order for us to actually read the text, it would only add another an extra second or two for each instance of text! What's going on with these video makers? It's not like even the youngest people can read them when they flash by so fast. So I'm extremely impressed that this video maker left the chart there for so long, while continuing to talk about very relevant things. I was able to take a good look at it, and decide whether or not it would be worth the trouble to pause the video. We usually are not given the choice, so we either miss important things by not pausing, or we waste our time pausing to read stuff that didn't matter. HUGE KUDOS to this video for giving us the choice! I have never been so impressed by a video review of a ski hill! Thank you SO MUCH for this!

Looks better than I thought. I always ski sunshine and Louise. Looks fun for racing

Here is a little tip: Make friends with the patrol, and if the day is on your side, they might just let you lift up to the top to get to some of the bowls. Coming from someone who may or may not have skied those areas...

@PeakRankings

Ай бұрын

😯

@nathanjanuszewski

Ай бұрын

well it depends on what you ski. Trust me, no one is getting on that platter without AST1 but you can probably do womens and stuff like that.

@humanbeing2420

Ай бұрын

@@nathanjanuszewskiWhich means what, exactly? I mean, in English.

@nathanjanuszewski

Ай бұрын

​@@humanbeing2420 I mean that you are not getting on the platter

@homealone5087

21 күн бұрын

​@@humanbeing2420 AST1 is an avalanche safety certification

Definitely a difference between what makes an area good for recreation or good for racing. I went by Whiteface last week. Recreational skiers sometimes complain about icy, windblown conditions, but racers WANT it icy. Conversely, Park City had a problem of TOO much snow for racing. No one pays much attention to the weather reports in Big & Little Cottonwood Canyons because it seems to snow a foot any day of the week at random. Great for recreation, pain in the butt for racing. If it snows 8" during a race event, the racers at the end of the line get screwed out of fast conditions.

Used to go to Nakiska and Fortress mountain on school field trips. Lots of fun (25 years ago)!

Really well done!

I like the two CLD-260’s they have. Their two out of base detachable lifts - silver and Olympic are Doppelmayr cld260’s, and they were built in the late 80’s. Very cool technology.

@humanbeing2420

Ай бұрын

Yep - each one is powered by a small nuclear reactor.

@Bluebottlenose

Ай бұрын

@@humanbeing2420that’s not ENTIRELY true

@darrensmith9143

Ай бұрын

These were the first high-speed chairs I had ever seen back in '88 when I was there for the women's downhill.

I tried to learn how to snowboard there in the late 90's. Nice hill when you aren't flying into trees or slamming your head...

Nakiska is a nice place to learn, close to Calgary. I like it

Woot! I just went to Quebec to ski Mont saint anne. It’s a nice mountain.

Like the reviews when they have a specific cool feature of the resort analysed such as the old trails or banned slopes

Awesome review dude. I went to Norquay for the first time this year and was pleasantly surprised. It is similar in a lot of ways. I was chatting with someone about Nakiska at the time, as I've never been. I grew up skiing primarily at Sunshine and am interested in the spots that I haven't been to.

As a local it’s great for beginners to mountain skiing and a bit of a warm up for the bigger resorts, it used to be a cheaper option but that’s changed it’s definitely hit or miss for conditions I’ve had terrible and perfect days

I actually just went skiing there yesterday because I live just outside of Calgary

From the UK, we visited Banff to ski all 3 resorts and lucky for us we were introduced to Nakiska on our first of 15 years skiing in Alberta. It is only 50 minutes from Banff on the highway, exit where you see the wigwams and casino exit 155. We were informed to miss the weekends so we did. Quiet during the week only problem not all lifts were on but still enough to ski in a day. Enjoyed the Poutine at the resturrant, it has a shop with everything you might need and lockers for your gear.

I worked a season there, back around 2001/2 ish, looking after the base area, I don't recall ever seeing the crowds as busy then as they were in the video, mid mountain was always empty when ever I went up there for a lunch. Back then RCR was in trouble, and had the hill up for sale, barely had enough equipment to keep things running, had a terrain park then and I think they may have just put in a half pipe that year as well. Also a couple of stunt scenes from the movie "Snow Dogs" were filmed there.

Fortress was a far better hill. Some kinda bs that Nakisha even went through. Icy wind blown usually the conditions unless ya catch it after a dump. Not worth the lift fees.

@ericjlehr

Ай бұрын

I hope that Fortress will come online again!!!

@jaydowell8165

Ай бұрын

@@ericjlehr it’s a cat ski op now. Don’t ask me how the bridge was deemed ok for cat skiing customs but not good enough for the skiers. Should be a shed ski area like Goldens Quartz Creek. Perfect terrain for it.

@dmcneil6113

Ай бұрын

Used to catch a bus to Fortress mountain and get a lift ticket for $12. Fortress was a great ski area, just not as big as Sunshine and Lake Louise, it had a different vibe.

it's incomprehensible for the european mind to think that someone could come and forbid me from skiing down somewhere haha. ski patrol is such a strange idea

The low season pass cost makes it appealing to families and people that are learning. It gets busy on weekends

When is the Marmot Basin review going up on YT/Your website? I'm pretty sure its the largest resort in NA missing from your rankings, and its the mountain I grew up snowboarding so it has a special place in my heart.

@PeakRankings

Ай бұрын

Written review within the next few months! Some of the expert terrain didn’t open this winter, so full video review may have to wait a bit- but we will certainly have some Knob Quad footage at least!

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

@@PeakRankings Thanks so much! That is the ONLY real skihill accesible to me!

what happened to skiers 1-71?

@PeakRankings

Ай бұрын

@Skier72 care to respond?

@humanbeing2420

Ай бұрын

I'll bet they are all older than Skier72 and that some of them (skiers 1 through 24 or so) are no longer with us.

@Skier72

Ай бұрын

Good question 😂

Great place to train for alpine. I probably have more kms skiied here than any other mountain but an absolutely dismal location for free skiing

I was there two days ago!

My first time skiing as a kid on this mountain, almost died impacting the safety fence near the bronze lift when I came down from silver and couldn't figure out how to slow down 😆

I've held a season's pass here for the last 4 seasons. Great mountain for the whole family.

Bring back Fortress.

@sadrevolution

Ай бұрын

Bring back Wintergreen, lol

@46ntwo46

Ай бұрын

Both were my hills growing up....man i miss fortress.

@stevec2890

Ай бұрын

Fortress rocked Skied at least 60 times a year there

I was skiing in Panorama resort in the late 2000s and the guys there told me that Nakiska got sued by a parent of a kid that paralysed himself skiing their park. Apparently they had poor transitions... Not sure how true that was, but the guy i was talking to was a surveyor, who was checking the design of the park at Panorama following a paralysation....

Please do a full review video on magic mountain vermont

From a hiking perspective, the area up high does have a seasonal closure (Apr 1 to Jun 21) for wildlife (Bighorn Sheep). Centennial Ridge, Olympic Summit and further on Mt Allan. Outside that time one can hike there.

I've had some of my best pow days at Nakiska!

Back when nakiska had their $200 seasons pass I rode here a lot and had a great time

Just a quick correction, upper grand trunk is just a nickname, the run appeared on trail maps for many years as “Bearspaw”. Strangely the cat track was often drawn out of those maps but Bearspaw was still listed, I guess as hike up? Anyway yeah, Nakiska I think is the dog of the Calgary-area resorts with how icy and busy it gets, but I suppose saying "well it's not as good as worldwide #5-ranked Sunshine or #10-ranked Lake Louise" isn't really that much of a black mark. It’s great if you only want groomers and below treeline ungroomed runs, with fast lifts. In my youth it was always seen as the "next step" mountain, you'd learn the basics at WinSport, then move up to Nakiska to move through intermediate and basic advanced terrain. Personally though, I would go to Mt. Norquay any day over it, similar prices for much better terrain in my opinion, and no crowds. Sunshine Village absolutely has much more interesting low-intermediate through low-advance terrain with way better snow. However, I should note that I haven't been since the last terrain expansion in 2009 which added a bunch of ungroomed glade terrain. Maybe I'll give it a shot during the 2024-25 season. Even the old hidden savings of not needing to pay to park isn't a thing any more with the conservation pass. Y'all need to try Castle Mountain next! It's the last of the big Alberta resorts, until Fortress finally manages to reopen one of the twenty years they've been saying they will.

I like the way the name sounds

When did they start enforcing a conservation pass? Been going there years, have never bought a pass, nor gotten ticketed for it

As a former resident of Calgary, I was thinking the whole time "Lake Louise & Sunshine are FAR nicer than Nakiska"... And I was about to close the video around the 14-minute mark, but wanted to see your rating. I concur with your rating chart @ 14:43 !

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

Nakiska is sh*t in comparison to EVERY other hill!

Please review some of the resorts in New Mexico. Nice vid!

@PeakRankings

Ай бұрын

We have a Taos video up, and we also visited Angel Fire, Red River, and Ski Santa Fe this year!

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

We are getting really tired of you spamming here for NM!

Funny how at every other resort, avi techs use a gun, helicopter or simply walk up the terrain. they keep that lift there to keep patrol happy and give them incentive to work there.

Sounds like Ski Patrol just wants their own area

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

You conspiracy theorists never stop, do you? It must be awful to live in such paranoia!

Fortress was always my favorite

Do they open the lifts for mountain biking in the summer?

@dnaug

Ай бұрын

No. There are no lift accessed mountains in Alberta. Shuttle at Moose mountain and Baseline

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

@@dnaug That's a great thing! Bikes and bikers just rip the sh*t out of the terrain for many yards (or meters) on both sides of the path, decimating the forest. There used to be 4 paths near my place, all roughly parallel, but seperated by forest. Now the entire hillside is denuded of growth. It's one big bald hill where nothing lives. It once had beautiful shaded forest paths, but is now as ugly as heck. I avoid going there, because it breaks my heart!

First comment/like/view. Awesome and interesting video!

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

Those who claim to be first comment NEVER are!

@carsonskiing

Ай бұрын

@@cattymajiv i was. I saw it 17 seconds after uploaded lol

The run you called "Upper Grand Trunk" was actually called "Bearspaw." Bearspaw was a black diamond (run #4), adjacent to Upper North Axe on early Nakiska trail maps. Not sure why they named the run and gave it a slot on the original trail map when they never opened it.

Lots of negatives with this mountain.

Worst hill I have ever been on haha

Next winter please do a full video on my home hill Magic Mountain, Vermont

@humanbeing2420

Ай бұрын

Wow - viewers here are really clamoring for a review of Magic Mountain....

@Anonymous79896

Ай бұрын

@@humanbeing2420 we are, and we also are the most underrated mountain on the east coast.

@unrestrainedfamily9356

Ай бұрын

I liked magic more then Nakiska.

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

@@humanbeing2420 It's the same guy, over and over.

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

@@humanbeing2420 We are Canadian here, and don't give a f*ck about Magic Mountain. So stop spamming that garbage.

Nakista is gnarly

@nathanjanuszewski

Ай бұрын

HOW

That run off to skiers left is not called north ax. It’s called legacy. North ax is under the silver chair

It is not permanently closed. I rode my motorcycle around the barriers and had the road for myself up to Jasper.

I love your narration voice and cadence.

@johns3106

Ай бұрын

It’s AI

@georgegrisham6683

Ай бұрын

@@johns3106 It's not AI. If you listen closely, you can catch audio editing cuts. Just heavily edited. Most AI voice overs also have way less expression and mispronounce a lot of vocabulary.

@johns3106

Ай бұрын

@@georgegrisham6683 You may be right, but I’m not entirely convinced. I’ve seen other videos from this poster where pronunciations are horribly mangled, including the word “colouir” which any real-life, big mountain ski reviewer SHOULD know how to pronounce, but maybe not an AI program that is trying to apply the standard rules of English pronunciation to a very un-English word…and that’s just one example! Unfortunately for all of us,it’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between real people and AI.

@georgegrisham6683

Ай бұрын

@@johns3106 It's true, it's harder to distinguish AI from real humans. Also good point about "colouir" I was doing some more looking into his videos, and came across this video of his which I don't think is AI. kzread.info/dash/bejne/aHiq1adwY7e1mZc.html

I grew up on this hill. We were there every weekend. My dad was a ski bum in his 20s, and a sponsored (K2) bump skier. He would drag me to the top to hit the moguls all the time. Got pretty good for a kid. He was not happy when I moved to snowboards in my teens 😂

as a racer the only thing good about nakiska is racing. if ur looking for park or literally anything else even WinSport is better

I wish fortress was still open 😢. At least you can go there with backcountry skis and ski the abandoned ski resort 😂.

Just sucks when the wind picks up

I remember going here for tubing

Probably the worst possible location to build a ski resort, panic decision because of the Olympics.

4:52 superb biff

I WISH THE BACKSIDE OF WHISTLER WAS STILL CLOSED. :P

bonus find the tunnel under the men's downhill course

Please review Sun Peaks soon. I've heard it's the second best ski resort in Canada after Whistler

@Richard-Burdett-Bow

Ай бұрын

It's probably not, never been there but out might be for the intermediate skier.

@sirjibsalot8910

Ай бұрын

​@Richard-Burdett-Bow it has been greatly expanded and its worth the trip

I live in the bow valley and have for most of my life. If you're visiting the area, Nakiska is the best ski hill in the area! Everyone who visits should go. Just kidding, Ive been to Nakiska once and will never go back. Its a terrible resort unless you're a ski racer.

I broke my thumb here 25 years ago, never did like this hill when theres so many nicer mountains close by.

And if you don’t ski or you wanna go there in the summer, bellow the hills are miles of walking and hiking trails and some nice water falls.

It honestly is a pretty good hill for what it is feels more like s non mountain hill but it huge potential if there was money pumped into it

The reason Nakiska is so busy is the season pass rate. It's cheap!!!! . I taught my son to ski there and it was frustrating at times. They also would close the gold chair for hours for the racers which IMO was idiotic. They also treated their staff like garbage when COVID closed the resorts in March by not returning their calls and hanging up on them. I can honestly say I will never spend another dime at Nakiska. I try to stay away from RCR resorts (They closed Fortress mountain and kept open this junk hill) but I do like Fernie. Anyways great video and Nakiska does its job by keeping people away from the real ski hills in Banff. On a side note the second choice for the Olympic downhill events was Mt. Sparrowhawk . It was further from Calgary so that is why Mt Allen was chosen. It's to bad because Sparrowhawk would have been so much better. I've scrambled up it a few times.

1:50 Can-Ah-Nass-Kiss

It's called Ka na nas kis not kenanaskis. Junior national ski team and Olympians from around the world train there too.

On a weekday it’s you and the workers.

East coast riding in the West. 😂

@sirjibsalot8910

Ай бұрын

If you mean icy conditions then..YES!!😅

Please do cypress next season

Pretty good video. I'm not sure what your source is for the "consistent cold weather" stat, but it's not accurate. It gets regular Chinook winds that often creates icy slopes.

Ive always wondered why the platter lift to the summit is closed to the public, but now I know it doesnt make a lot of sense, especially when considering they do avalanche control. That Alpine section at the top would make Nakiska much more appealing.

@sirjibsalot8910

Ай бұрын

It was only there to access the very top start gate for the downhill portion of the Olympics in 88. It can get BRUTALLY windy up there. It often tops the wind speed in southern Alberta during chinook conditions. 150 plus kmh

@deadskimountaineer

Ай бұрын

That’s just a big unsupported avalanche start zone right over infrastructure. Same reason you can’t ski above the Goat’s Eye chair at Sunshine.

Hey! My kid and I are in this video waiting in line!

soooo many jerries 🤣

bro i was there two days ago

This ski hill has always been a reminder of how well Government led developments can be so marvellously FUBAR'd.

You mentioned “The Town of Kananaskis” during your lodging segment, there is no such town. FYI I’m a local

@nathanjanuszewski

Ай бұрын

probably meant to say Kananaskis Village

@PeakRankings

Ай бұрын

^Yep!

@shanelaird9032

26 күн бұрын

@@nathanjanuszewski but still not a town

It's the wind. That's all

this resort needs to open a lift up to the bowls and it would prosper

Nakiska, the original white elephant.

Hi

Get up 45 minutes earlier and just go to bloody Sunshine.

@Richard-Burdett-Bow

Ай бұрын

Haha, sunshine blows goats. Actually some days I prefer sunshine and some days I prefer nakiska. Sunshine would be sued and renamed snowsquall village with its flat light above treeline

@misterslats

Ай бұрын

@@Richard-Burdett-Bow You can't sue a company for weather and light conditions dipsh!t.

@sirjibsalot8910

Ай бұрын

​​it generally has better snow, but yes damn it the viz is awful!😅

@LukasSchroederFilms

16 күн бұрын

@@Richard-Burdett-Bowconfirmed kook

No park. It sucks. But I still buy their season pass coz its affordable compared to Lake louise or sun peaks.

My children learned to ski there, none ski now.

@PeakRankings

Ай бұрын

💀

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

What a shame. Too attached to their phones no doubt.

Nakiska SUCKS!!! What a waste of money and effort. Anyone who know snow knows gives this dump a miss! Skiing in the trees is a deathwish. There’s no decent glades. It doesn’t get powder. And the parking lot is often underwater 🤦🏼

8:55 why would they do that

@nathanjanuszewski

Ай бұрын

Keep it running longer.

Im glad nakiska exists to hold most of the kooks away from sunshine and louise. All good if you’re a kook but its watcha are!

The snow quality at Nakiska is top tier awful.

Sounds like the resort should have a new owner..