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Marmot Basin
Ski area in Alberta, Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marmot Basin is an alpine ski area located on Marmot Mountain in Alberta's Jasper National Park. It has 91 named runs on four mountain faces with 3,000 vertical feet of drop. The area has a lift capacity of close to 12,000 skiers per hour on seven lifts. The season runs from mid-November to early May. It is located twenty minutes south of Jasper and has two million visitors annually.
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Marmot Basin has a Rentall & Repair shop that offers rentals of skis, snowboards, boots, and poles. The Snow Sports School offers lessons, clinics, and a variety of children's programs.
There are three mountain day lodges: Caribou Chalet at the base area and Eagle and Paradise Chalets at mid-mountain. There is no current overnight on-mountain lodging at Marmot Basin.
Marmot Basin has three terrain parks on the mountain, which feature various rail slides, table tops, and jumps. Marmot offers a terrain park in the Lower, Mid, and Upper Mountains.
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Former lifts
- Tranquilizer Chair (Double Chair) - 1968[7] - Removed 2009[1]
- Kiefer T-Bar (T-Bar) - 1974[8] - Removed 2009[1]
- School House T-Bar (T-Bar) - 1964[9] - Removed 2011[3]
- Caribou Chair (Double Chair) - 1971 - Retired 2011
- Spillway T-Bar (T-Bar) - 1986 - Removed 1990
- Knob Chair (Double Chair) 1976 - Retired 2023
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- Lower Mountain
- Town of Jasper from the Eagle Ridge lift
- Powder day at Marmot Basin
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