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Coffin Side Entrance at Grouse Mountain

Expert · 36 m long with 20 m of vertical, averaging 28° and — at its steepest, facing NE.

—steepest 50 m
28°average pitch
36 mlength
20 mvertical
1026 mtop elevation
NEfaces

Snow and sun

Coffin Side Entrance is poleward-facing: least winter sun, holds cold powder longest, can stay firm or icy.

Grooming: backcountry. Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Coffin Side Entrance

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 16 minutes, expert 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 Coffin Side Entrance (expert)

Where it ends

Joins Coffin. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Olympic Express (2 min).

See Coffin Side Entrance 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.