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Chief Shoulder at Sun Peaks Resort

Advanced · 408 m long with 173 m of vertical, averaging 23° and 30° at its steepest, facing SE.

30°steepest 50 m
23°average pitch
408 mlength
173 mvertical
2033 mtop elevation
SEfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Chief Shoulder

Lifts that reach the top: Burfield (skiing advanced terrain to get there); Crystal Quad (skiing advanced terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 22 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Sunburst Express
  2. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  3. Ski Cruiser (intermediate)
  4. Ski Trans Canada (intermediate)
  5. Ride Crystal Quad
  6. Ski Juniper Ridge (advanced)
  7. Ski Chief Shoulder (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins Nose of the Chief, Highway 22. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Crystal Quad (2 min), unnamed magic carpet (6 min), Sunburst Express (7 min).

See Chief Shoulder on the 3D mapAll runs at Sun Peaks 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.