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Top Gun at Cypress Mountain Ski Area

Expert · 990 m long with 309 m of vertical, averaging 17° and 30° at its steepest, facing SW.

30°steepest 50 m
17°average pitch
990 mlength
309 mvertical
1315 mtop elevation
SWfaces

Snow and sun

Top Gun is south-west-facing: warm afternoon sun, softens and refreezes the most after the sunniest aspect.

Grooming: backcountry. Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Top Gun

Lifts that reach the top: Sky Quad (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 14 minutes, expert skiing needed):

  1. Ride Lions Express Quad
  2. Ski Collins (easy)
  3. Ski Humpty Dumpty (intermediate)
  4. Ski unnamed trail
  5. Ride Sky Quad
  6. Ski T-33 (intermediate)
  7. Ski Top Gun (expert)

Where it ends

Joins Horizon, Howe Sound Crest Trail. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Lions Express Quad (1 min), Eagle Express Quad (1 min), Midway Chair (2 min).

See Top Gun on the 3D mapAll runs at Cypress Mountain Ski Area
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.