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Lightning Rod at Revelstoke Mountain Resort

Intermediate · 611 m long with 231 m of vertical, averaging 21° and 25° at its steepest, facing SW.

25°steepest 50 m
21°average pitch
611 mlength
231 mvertical
1018 mtop elevation
SWfaces

Snow and sun

Lightning Rod is south-west-facing: warm afternoon sun, softens and refreezes the most after the sunniest aspect.

How to get to Lightning Rod

Lifts that reach the top: Revelation Gondola - Upper (skiing easy terrain to get there); unnamed magic carpet (skiing easy terrain to get there); Stellar (skiing easy terrain to get there); The Stoke (skiing easy terrain to get there); The Ripper (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 29 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Revelation Gondola - Lower
  2. Ride Revelation Gondola - Upper
  3. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  4. Ski The Last Spike (easy)
  5. Ski Feller Buncher (easy)
  6. Ski The Last Spike (easy)
  7. Ski Lightning Rod (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins The Last Spike. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Little Bit (1 min).

See Lightning Rod on the 3D mapAll runs at Revelstoke Mountain 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.