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Powder Glades at Big White

Advanced · 449 m long with 145 m of vertical, averaging 18° and 25° at its steepest, facing W.

25°steepest 50 m
18°average pitch
449 mlength
145 mvertical
2017 mtop elevation
Wfaces

Snow and sun

Powder Glades is west-facing: afternoon sun, softens late and can crust as it refreezes.

Tree skiing (gladed).

How to get to Powder Glades

Lifts that reach the top: Powder Chair (skiing easy terrain to get there); Alpine T-bar (skiing easy terrain to get there); Falcon Chair (skiing easy terrain to get there); Ridge Rocket Express (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Snow Ghost Express (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 26 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Sapphire Express
  2. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  3. Ride Falcon Chair
  4. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  5. Ski Falcon Easy Out (easy)
  6. Ski Trapper's (easy)
  7. Ski Powder Easy Out (easy)
  8. Ski Sleepy Hollow (easy)
  9. Ski Powder Glades (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins Powder Gulch. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Powder Chair (1 min), Gem Connector (10 min), Gem Lake Express (10 min).

See Powder Glades on the 3D mapAll runs at Big White
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.