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Blue Face at Grouse Mountain

Intermediate · 446 m long with 142 m of vertical, averaging 18° and 26° at its steepest, facing E.

26°steepest 50 m
18°average pitch
446 mlength
142 mvertical
1018 mtop elevation
Efaces

Snow and sun

Blue Face is east-facing: morning sun, softens first and shades by early afternoon.

How to get to Blue Face

Lifts that reach the top: Olympic Express (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Peak Chair (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Magic Carpet (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Greenway Chair (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Screaming Eagle Chair (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Red Skyride (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

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

  1. Ride Blue Grouse Gondola
  2. Ski Chalet Road (easy)
  3. Ski Centennial (intermediate)
  4. Ski Expo (intermediate)
  5. Ride Olympic Express
  6. Ski Peak (intermediate)
  7. Ski Lower Peak (intermediate)
  8. Ski Tyee Chute (intermediate)
  9. Ski Blue Face (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins Inferno, Hades, Expo. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Olympic Express (1 min).

See Blue Face on the 3D mapAll runs at Grouse Mountain
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.