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Freeriding

Freeriders can have a good time at Steamboat. If youre up to the grade, try riding the steeps on the Meadows of Storm Peak, where Christmas Tree Bowl and the neighbouring chutes will give you a good challenge. Alternatively, try cutting some deep powder tracks in areas like Toutes.

Freestylers

Freestylers can catch some decent natural air or sample the man-made hits in the Maverick terrain park on Big Meadow. The Maverick park claims to have the biggest park in North America 650 foot long ending in a 50foot 1/4pipe.

Theres also a great park, called the Sobe Park, with a 200foot pipe and numerous rails and kickers.

The Beehive, is a small fun-park with a series of mini-hits for kids only, located on the Spike trail reachable off the South Peak lift.

Pistes

The pistes here are very good with good long descents on which to perfect their technique. Steamboat is also noted for its Olympic race runs, which can be used by snowboarders. Further more, this is also a place where speed skiers, and indeed extreme down hill mountain bikers, often come to practice their thing. Which means the mountain certainly has a number of very gnarly slopes where you can cut it at great speed, but dont go racing down fast runs in an out of control or dangerous manner, because not only will someone get seriously hurt, but the ski patrol will take a very dim view of your actions and throw you off the mountain.

Beginners

Beginners and total novices will feel most left out here, for apart from some green runs snaking in and out of the higher grade trails, the easy stuff at the base area is often very tiresome. Steamboat has an excellent ski and snowboard school.

Resort Statistics

Resort Type: Alpine
Winter: mid Nov to April
Summer: None

Lifts

Total Lifts: 20
Gondolas: 1
Chair lifts: 17
Drag lifts: 2
Max people per hour: 33,619
Board Leashes required: Yes

Mountain

Total pistes/trails: 166
Total ride area: 2965 acres
Longest run: 3miles (4.8km)

Top lift: 3224m
Vertical drop: 1118m
First lift: 2103m

Piste suitability

Green runs: 14%
Red runs: 42%
Black runs: 44%

Lift Passes

Lift Passes:
Half-day $61
Day Pass - $80-85
Season Pass - $1499 (early bird $935)
Lift times:8.30am to 3.30pm

Snowfall

Average annual snowfall: 8.59m
Artificial snowmaking coverage: 15%

Facilities

Snowboard Schools: group clinic all day $27
private 2 hours $235 all day $475
Snowboard Hire: board and boots $33/day
Night Riding: : No

Other activities

Heliboarding: : Not available
Snowmobiles: 2hr $80 4hrs $135 all day $175

Further information

www.steamboat.com
Email:info@steamboat.com

On the mountain this a great place to ride with some excellent treeriding to try out and some cool carving runs. But off the slopes the place is way too stuck up.

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MONEY WISE: Everything is way over priced and not always good value

HALFPIPE: Yes - 2
TERRAIN PARK: Yes - 3
BACKCOUNTRY/OFF-PISTE:Yes
TREE RUNS:Yes

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