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Sunshine Village
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Norquay

Sunshine Village Ski Resort

Sunshine offers an impressive 1,358 hectares of skiable terrain with 115 marked runs. The resort is serviced with 12 lifts of which 6 are high-speed quads. There is also a high speed gondola which is used to link the parking area to the ski areas, with a drop off/pick up at Goats Eye, and continuing on to Sunshine Village further up the mountain. Whilst you have to use the gondola to access the ski areas, Sunshine has an entertaining 'ski out' all the way to the parking lot.

The terrain spread is made up of 20% beginner, 55% intermediate, and 25% advanced/expert runs. Goats Eye Mountain is particularly popular for the more advanced/expert riders due to their predominantly black runs.

For the daredevils, there are extreme zones that require avalanche gear called Delirium Dive and Wild West. These areas can be closed for portions of the season due to conditions.

The snow is the high quality dry powder this part of the Rocky Mountains is renowned for. The ski resort also boasts an impressive average snowfall of up to 10 metres per year.

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Lake Louise Ski Resort

Lake Louise offer a huge 1,700 hectares of terrain to be explore, making it the one of the largest ski resorts in Canada. The resort caters to all abilities, with intermediates in particular well serviced. Terrain split; Beginner 25%, Intermediate 45%, and Advanced/Expert 30%.

The resort is serviced by only 10 lifts, three of which are magic carpets but the locations of the lifts ensures you're ably to explore the terrain seamlessly. The resort itself consists of 3 main areas; the front side of the mountain which is great for beginners and intermediates, the Larch area which has a broad mix of terrain for all abilities, and the back face where you'll find powder bowls, chutes, and tree runs more suited to the advanced/expert riders.

There is also a varied terrain park to suit all levels with some big jumps suitable for the advanced shredders.

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Norquay Ski Resort

Picturesque Norquay Ski Resort offers stunning views over Banff town centre with an enticing 77 hectares of terrain to explore. This intimate mountain is serviced by 6 lifts, and 60 varied runs. The terrain split is made up of 31% beginner runs, 25% intermediate, and 44% advanced/expert.

Norquay offers some decent night skiing and a terrain park that is also illuminated.

This resort does not boast a lot of powder as it only experiences on average about 3 metres of snowfall due to its elevation. As a result of the lack of regular snowfall, there is snowmaking across approximately 85% of the skiable terrain.

nicky sullivan

Lizzie was so helpful, gave us some options and advice to help us pinpoint where we wanted to go. And once we had booked provided some really helpful travel advice and answering questions we had. Easy to deal with, everything was smooth and we had a great time.

Shelly Drewitz

Calum was awesome at helping us every step of the way with our trip. We got a great deal on the accommodation and ski lift, and we will definitely come back to Mountainwatch next time based on his excellent service.

Mark K Grant

I booked my Japan ski holiday through Mountainwatch. Very professional and when we arrived in Japan all was laid out for us. The accommodation was even nicer than expected. KIrsty was very good to work with and made things very easy!!!! will book again next season.

Jess

Great experience booking through this company, our contact Anna was brilliant, and organised a fantastic ski trip for us. The travel was all clearly laid out, the accommodation was lovely, the ski field was fantastic, great range of local dining options and bars.

Brett A

Mountain Watch are great, well organised and excellent advice on locations and accommodation. Highly recommended!

darren martin

Thanks Kirsty for helping arrange our family trip to Myoko for Xmas 2025, we had an amazing time

Jan Kelly

Thanks Kirsty, once again your arrangements for us in Japan worked very well. We’ll have no hesitation about touching base with you before we make another booking….. not sure if we’ll be organised by June, but we’ll see. Have a great season yourself and keep up the good work at MountainWatch. Regards Jan and Tom

Samantha Farr

Our trip to Hakuba and Tokyo was so smooth and easy thanks to the help of Justine. Hotel was great and in a perfect location and it was very smooth having all our extras like lessons and rentals booked and sorted before we arrived. Would 100% book through Mountainwatch Travel again!

John Durham

This is the second year that Kristy has organized travel arrangements for a skiing holiday to Furano in Japan, for us. It is the second time that those arrangements have been fulfilled seamlessly. No hassles, as planned and on time. Perfect, and will use Mountainwatchj Travel again. John Durham

Simone B

We booked through Anna O’Malley for our stay in Nozawa onsen Village in Japan. Seamless service, prompt, and pricing reasonable. The Shimataya View Hotel, was a lovely stay. Room size was large, great views, and Amazing service from Staff. Momoi and Eloisa couldn’t help enough- from dinner reservations to organising luggage to Tokyo. Property is older, though clean, well maintained. 10 min walk to slopes, 5 min walk to village centre. I recommend Mountain Watch, and this property. Photos are the view from our room.

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