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Northern Lights at Kicking Horse Resort

Intermediate · 764 m long with 157 m of vertical, averaging 12° and 21° at its steepest, facing E.

21°steepest 50 m
12°average pitch
764 mlength
157 mvertical
2303 mtop elevation
Efaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Northern Lights

Lifts that reach the top: Stairway to Heaven (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 31 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Golden Eagle Express
  2. Ski It's a Ten (easy)
  3. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  4. Ski Northern Lights (intermediate)
  5. Ski Cloud Nine (intermediate)
  6. Ride Stairway to Heaven
  7. Ski Cloud Nine (intermediate)
  8. Ski Northern Lights (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins Cloud Nine. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Stairway to Heaven (2 min), Pioneer (8 min), Golden Eagle Express (8 min).

See Northern Lights 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.