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Blaster at Kicking Horse Resort

Intermediate · 558 m long with 160 m of vertical, averaging 16° and 21° at its steepest, facing NE.

21°steepest 50 m
16°average pitch
558 mlength
160 mvertical
1866 mtop elevation
NEfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Blaster

Lifts that reach the top: Golden Eagle Express (skiing easy terrain to get there); Stairway to Heaven (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

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

  1. Ride Golden Eagle Express
  2. Ski It's a Ten (easy)
  3. Ski Huckleberry (easy)
  4. Ski It's a Ten (easy)
  5. Ski Blaster (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins unnamed easy trail, Kicking Horse. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Pioneer (3 min), Golden Eagle Express (5 min), Catamount (5 min).

See Blaster on the 3D mapAll runs at Kicking Horse 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.