One thing to add, midweek is always not busy. Gold Chair is often closed all or part morning on weekdays but checking webpage will show at what time Gold is opening. Also easiest way to go down the Bronze area is to keep right dismounting chair, turn right to lower powderface. Where Sundance intersects, turn left unto Sundance for another ride on Bronze or go straight ahead and past base of Olympic lift to Base Lodge.
As a note for those looking closely at the 1989 trail map and noticing the short lift ascending past Gold into the open bowl terrain, while it still exists on the mountain it's only used by ski patrol conducting avalanche control, and climbing above the Gold chair into the area it services or riding that lift will, last I heard, result in your passes being pulled. This will also happen if you enter into the women's downhill or the traverse to it when it has not been opened by ski patrol. The whole area is, in fact, in bounds and they do actively patrol it.
Great video, thanks for letting me write this one!
One thing to add, midweek is always not busy. Gold Chair is often closed all or part morning on weekdays but checking webpage will show at what time Gold is opening.
Also easiest way to go down the Bronze area is to keep right dismounting chair, turn right to lower powderface. Where Sundance intersects, turn left unto Sundance for another ride on Bronze or go straight ahead and past base of Olympic lift to Base Lodge.
As a note for those looking closely at the 1989 trail map and noticing the short lift ascending past Gold into the open bowl terrain, while it still exists on the mountain it's only used by ski patrol conducting avalanche control, and climbing above the Gold chair into the area it services or riding that lift will, last I heard, result in your passes being pulled. This will also happen if you enter into the women's downhill or the traverse to it when it has not been opened by ski patrol. The whole area is, in fact, in bounds and they do actively patrol it.
Great suppeiment.
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