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Sluice Box at Apex Mountain Resort

Intermediate · 1328 m long with 349 m of vertical, averaging 15° and 24° at its steepest, facing NE.

24°steepest 50 m
15°average pitch
1328 mlength
349 mvertical
1955 mtop elevation
NEfaces

Snow and sun

Sluice Box is poleward-facing: least winter sun, holds cold powder longest, can stay firm or icy.

How to get to Sluice Box

Lifts that reach the top: Stock's Chiar (skiing novice terrain to get there); Quickdraw (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 12 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Stock's Chiar
  2. Ski Sluice Box (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins Whipsaw, Stock's Traverse. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Stock's Chiar (1 min).

See Sluice Box on the 3D mapAll runs at Apex Mountain Resort
Measured from OpenStreetMap geometry and elevation via OpenSkiMap (ODbL). Times are rough. Grades, grooming and openings change day to day — check the resort's own reports.