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Ripley at Showdown Ski Area

Intermediate · 781 m long with 174 m of vertical, averaging 13° and 20° at its steepest, facing SE.

20°steepest 50 m
13°average pitch
781 mlength
174 mvertical
2412 mtop elevation
SEfaces

Snow and sun

Ripley is south-east-facing: sun from mid-morning, softens early in spring.

How to get to Ripley

Lifts that reach the top: Payload (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Prospector (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 12 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Payload
  2. Ski King's Ridge (intermediate)
  3. Ski Brown Eyed Queen (easy)
  4. Ski The George (intermediate)
  5. Ski Ripley (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins Arkansas Traveller, Ski Bums Way, Mizpah. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Payload (1 min), unnamed magic carpet (2 min), Hoxter Express (3 min).

See Ripley on the 3D mapAll runs at Showdown Ski Area
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.