TL;DR
Sundance Mountain Resort's back mountain is finally getting a proper lift. The Electric Horseman Express opens for 2026-27, unlocking a new bowl next to Bishop's Bowl and three expert gladed chutes across roughly 105 fresh acres - on top of the Storyteller ridge run that debuted in preview form last season. It's Sundance's biggest expansion since 1985, and it turns a three-lift slog into a single six-minute ride to Bearclaw Summit.
Sundance Mountain Resort's back mountain has been sitting behind slow lifts for years. That changes this winter, with a new high-speed quad and a fresh batch of terrain to go with it.
The Electric Horseman Express, a Doppelmayr detachable quad, opens for the 2026-27 season as the centrepiece of what Sundance is calling its biggest mountain expansion since 1985. The lift starts near the base of Wildwood, crosses the Far East Ridge, and unloads at the top of Red's Lift on Bearclaw Summit - climbing roughly 1,850 vertical feet in about six minutes. Before this, reaching that terrain meant stringing together three separate lifts.
Sundance Electric Horseman Express
What's actually new this season
Some of the confusion around this expansion is fair, because it's rolled out in two pieces. The Storyteller ridge run - an upper-intermediate groomer carved from the old Far East Ridgeline, with sweeping turns and wide-open views - already opened in preview form last winter, reachable only via Red's Lift. What's new for 2026-27 is the Electric Horseman Express itself, plus a fresh 105 acres centred on an entirely new bowl next to Bishop's Bowl. Three new expert gladed chutes run through the trees before dropping into the new lift's base, giving Sundance a genuine spread across intermediate, advanced, and expert terrain in one connected zone.
