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Lower Grouse Alley at Northstar California

Intermediate · 594 m long with 113 m of vertical, averaging 11° and 15° at its steepest, facing NE.

15°steepest 50 m
11°average pitch
594 mlength
113 mvertical
2507 mtop elevation
NEfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Lower Grouse Alley

Lifts that reach the top: Rendezvous (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Comstock Express (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Backside Express (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 8 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Promised Land Express
  2. Ski unnamed trail
  3. Ski West Ridge (intermediate)
  4. Ski Luggi's (intermediate)
  5. Ride Rendezvous
  6. Ski unnamed trail
  7. Ski The Flume (intermediate)
  8. Ski Lower Grouse Alley (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins Ax Handle. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Rendezvous (2 min), Comstock Express (2 min), Arrow Express (6 min).

See Lower Grouse Alley on the 3D mapAll runs at Northstar California
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.