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Northwest Passage at West Mountain

Easy · 306 m long with 44 m of vertical, averaging 8° and 12° at its steepest, facing SE.

12°steepest 50 m
average pitch
306 mlength
44 mvertical
432 mtop elevation
SEfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Northwest Passage

Lifts that reach the top: Apex Chair (skiing novice terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 7 minutes, easy skiing needed):

  1. Ride Apex Chair
  2. Ski Northwest Passage (easy)

Where it ends

Joins Frolic, The Meadows, Alley, Mach.

See Northwest Passage on the 3D mapAll runs at West Mountain
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.