Stevens has built a killer terrain park dubbed The Bent Monkey. Accessible from the Brooks Chair, The Bent Monkey
has about 38 features,
including 12 rails. Boarders travel through the park on Broadway or
Brennans's trails, while hitting
tabletops, spines, jumps, and other manmade obstacles.
Stevens also builds a huge superpipe about two-thirds of the way
down Broadway. Approximately 450 feet long and 17 feet high, the pipe is built and maintained by area
crew members with a superpipe grinder.
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Washington snow lines:
Cascade snow report: 206-634-0200
Washington ski report: 206-634-2754
Bluewood snow line: 509-382-2877
Crystal Mountain snow line: 888-754-6199
Hurricane Ridge snow line: 360-417-4555
Mission Ridge snow line: 509-663-3200
Mount Baker snow line: 360-671-0211
Stevens Pass snow line: 206-634-1645
The Summit at Snoqualmie snow line: 206-634-1645
49 Degrees North snow line: 509-880-9208
White Pass snow line: 509-672-3100
Highway road reports:
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Silver Star is a two-faced mountain, with Vance Creek on the south side and Putnam Creek on
the north. Both sides already offer great terrain for boarders and skiers of all levels, but the future looks even
brighter. The BC Ministry of Environment, Lands, and Parks approved a 10-year master plan to more than double the
area's total acreage from 2,200 to 5,000. This will ultimately translate into more trails for carving, turning,
gliding, sliding, jumping, tree banging, exploring, ripping, shredding, cruising, etc. The plan will also increase the
resort's guest accommodations.
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NWsource note: Since the time of publication, lodging and dining choices have expanded. For more information, please see the Panorama Mountain Village Web site.
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Like the rest of the mountain, the Alpine Snowboard Park rarely sees a large crowd. Boarders usually have the park's 20
features all to themselves and at their own pace. Accessible from the Panorama T-bar, the park offers roughly 200 feet
of vertical. Features are made with a cat and include jumps, spines, banked turns, tabletops, rollerz, kickers, and a
quarterpipe with a 10-foot wall.
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Located on the warm side of the Rockies, Panorama offers 2,847 acres of skiable terrain. Snowmaking covers 40 percent
of the named runs up to the first 3,200 feet of vertical. This almost guarantees an early season-opener (November) for
race training camps, but Panorama is not open to the general public until December. The snowmaking also allows
top-to-bottom skiing in late spring. Nine lifts, including two high-speed detachable-quads, provide access to 100-plus
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On the other hand, not being part of the "in-crowd" has its advantages. Lengthy lift lines and on-slope anthill-like congestion simply don't exist at Panorama. But this reprieve from development could be
short-lived.
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Kamloops - 31 miles (53 km) away
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Expert boarders and skiers will find more than enough challenging terrain at Smithers. There's Cold Smoke, a
double-black-diamond run with steep drop-offs and glades on each side. The Dahlie Double is a steep narrow cut through
the trees. From early on in the season it is full of big bad moguls. Alpenhorn is another narrow mogul run, but it is
not as steep as Dahlie's. For warp speed super G turns try Chapman's Challenge, a wide open freeway that is long, steep
and groomed everyday.
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No longer does Mount Washington lend itself just to skiers. In recent years, the resort jumped on the snowboarding
bandwagon, and the investment has paid off. Each season, crewmembers construct two highly rated terrain parks and a
halfpipe. The advanced Central Park covers the entire Retirement trail and is accessed from the top of the Eagle
Express quad. Retirement's 800 feet (244 m) of vertical includes rolls, banked turns, pyramids, pro jumps, spines, and
tabletops. A 300-foot halfpipe with 10- to 12-foot walls is sculpted daily with a Pipe Dragon.
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