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Sluice Box at Cardrona Alpine Resort

Intermediate · 651 m long with 166 m of vertical, averaging 14° and 21° at its steepest, facing SE.

21°steepest 50 m
14°average pitch
651 mlength
166 mvertical
1684 mtop elevation
SEfaces

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: Whitestar Express (skiing easy terrain to get there); T-Bar (skiing easy terrain to get there); McDougall's Chondola (skiing easy terrain to get there); Captain's Express (skiing easy terrain to get there); Soho Express (skiing easy terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 17 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Valley View
  2. Ski unnamed trail
  3. Ski Comeback Trail (easy)
  4. Ride Whitestar Express
  5. Ski Racecourse (easy)
  6. Ski Sluice Box (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins All Nations. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Whitestar Express (1 min), Valley View (2 min).

See Sluice Box on the 3D mapAll runs at Cardrona Alpine 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.