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Sluice Box at Discovery Ski Area

Advanced · 717 m long with 282 m of vertical, averaging 21° and 28° at its steepest, facing SE.

28°steepest 50 m
21°average pitch
717 mlength
282 mvertical
2427 mtop elevation
SEfaces

Snow and sun

Sluice Box is south-east-facing: sun from mid-morning, softens early in spring.

How to get to Sluice Box

Lifts that reach the top: Rumsey (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Anaconda (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 23 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Silver Chief
  2. Ski unnamed intermediate trail (intermediate)
  3. Ski Black Moon (advanced)
  4. Ride Granite
  5. Ski Winning Ridge (intermediate)
  6. Ski Medicine Ridge (intermediate)
  7. Ride Limelight
  8. Ski Claimjumper (intermediate)
  9. Ski Silver Bow (advanced)
  10. Ski Berkeley (intermediate)
  11. Ski Tenderfoot (easy)
  12. Ski Britton (easy)
  13. Ride Anaconda
  14. Ski Berkeley (intermediate)
  15. Ski Sluice Box (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins Gold Rush, Silver Bow. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Anaconda (2 min), Rumsey (2 min).

See Sluice Box on the 3D mapAll runs at Discovery 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.