Banff Alberta Canada 2024

Chairperson: Jeannie Conway
When: Feb 24-March 2, 2024
Cost: $2400 per person
Where: Ptarmigan Inn
Passports Required!
7 nights lodging, 5 day lift tickets or IKON pass
Round trip airfare and ground transfers
Complimentary breakfast, WiFi, and local bus pass
Hot tubs, sauna, 1 block from downtown
Welcome Reception, Pub Crawl, Race, Apres ski parties, Dinner Banquet
Optional:
6th day lift ticket and travel insurance
Ladies: Afternoon Tea at the Fairmont Hotel, Spa day and shopping
A historic town with three ski resorts and a natural hot springs will make this a great trip for the Powder Dogs. The town of Banff, Sunshine Village and Ski Banff/Mount Norquay are within the Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies. Ski Lake Louise is also nearby, just a 40 minute drive from Banff.

Ski Area Statistics

• Sunshine Village: 3,358 skiable acres: 20% Beginner, 55% Intermediate, 25% Advanced; 8954 top elevation; 5440 base elevation; 3514 vertical feet; 364 annual inches; 107 trails; 1 gondola, 9 lifts, 2 carpets.
• Mount Norquay190 skiable acres: 31% Beginner, 25% Intermediate, 44% Advanced; 6998 top elevation; 5350 base elevation; 1650 vertical feet; 120 annual inches; 28 trails, 6 lifts.
• Ski Lake Louise: 4200 skiable acres: 25% Beginner, 45% Intermediate, 30% Advanced; 8650 top elevation; 1646 base elevation; 3250 vertial feet; 5 miles longest run; 179 annual inches; 164 trails; 1 gondola, 7 chairs and 3 carpets.
  In 2021, 480 acres of new terrain were added in the West Bowl.

Places to eat include great restaurants like the the Bison Restaurant, The Elk and Oarsman, and Tommys Neighbourhood Pub.

For the apres ski time there are shops along Banff Avenue from boutiques to general merchandise shops.
And then there are two mut see UNESCO World Heritage Sites to tour, which both are in the Banff National Park.
A self guided tour of the 130 year historic Banff Springs Hotel can take from 1 - 2 hours.
Then there is Chateau Lake Louise, which was originally built in 1886, added on to in 1896 and then again in the 1920's.

Come to the next meeting to sign up!