Revelstoke

We left Golden for a day trip to Revelstoke in the morning and due to the time zone change we gained an hour. Nonetheless, Victor speeded and overtook another car and an oncoming police officer stopped both of us. We got a speed ticket and went to the local courthouse to pay it.

Then we went skiing.

Skipasses: $74 plus tax.

Hours of operation: 8:30 to 3:30.

Lifts: Revelstoke has a gondola and two chairlifts. The gondola has a midstation where you have to change gondolas. We would have preferred a drive-thru midstation for obvious reasons.

5,620 ft. vertical

Trails: The trails are well groomed and invited even more than the highway for speeding. Most of the trails were black.

Snow: As it had not been snowing for a week, there was no more powder, but the groomed trails were great. Only between mid and base station it was either icy or sloshy. There were stones and roots on the very steep double black diamonds.

Specials: Revelstoke also offers host tours, but we had no time to take advantage of them. Everywhere they poked heli-skiing in your view but this was off budget.

The midstation restaurant offered the usual burger & fries combos but also had a live pasta cooking station. No wifi on this mountain.