Silver Star, Canada - BC

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Silver Star summary

Silver Star is a place where memorable holidays happen all year round. The resort offers stunning skiing, thrilling mountain biking, breathtaking scenery, colourful Victorian architecture, wonderful curiosity shops and restaurants, and fantastic people - people who love to call Silver Star "my mountain". By day, there's heaps of mountain to explore; by night, there's plenty of après-ski entertainment for little kids, teenagers and the young at heart. Blanketed annually by seven metres (23 feet) of dry, feather-light champagne powder, Silver Star is a huge mountain with three distinct faces and 115 runs, bowls and gladed areas. The comfortable average daytime temperatures of ‐5 C (27 F), is cold enough to keep the snow light and fluffy, yet perfect for skiing, riding, cross country skiing and other winter activities. With its long, beautifully manicured runs, quiet, open slopes, and panoramic views, Vance Creek is the most popular area on the mountain. But it's not all laid back, here, you'll find the TELUS Terrain Park, packed with rails, monster jumps, and a half pipe. Accessed via the Powder Gulch Express, Putnam Creek features over forty thigh-burning runs for intermediates and experts. Silver Star's snowcat crew specializes in winch cat grooming, even on some of its steepest runs. Serviced by its very own highspeed quad, Silver Woods features fall line intermediate runs, gladed meadows. The Silver Queen lift services uncrowded beginner/intermediate terrain, while the Attridge Quad provides access to 'local's only' powder stashes. If you're a Nordic skier, make tracks to the Silver Star Nordic Center, where over 100 km (60 miles) of groomed and trackset trails winding throughout the resort and at the neighbouring Sovereign Lake Nordic Centre. Silver Star Mountain Resort is incredibly easy to get to – less than an hour's shuttle from the Kelowna International Airport, which enjoys non‐stop direct service from many Canadian and international cities.

Resorts close to Silver Star include: CMH Monashees (51 km), Big White (66 km), Sun Peaks (86 km), Revelstoke Mountain Resort (94 km), Apex Mountain (126 km),

	Trails (Pistes): 115	Halfpipes: 2
	Summit: 1916 m	Toplift: m
	Beg: 20% Int: 50% Adv: 30%	Terrain Parks: 1
	Vertical Drop: 760 m	X-Country: 105 km
	Lifts: 12 lifts	Snowmaking: No
	Gondolas / Cable Cars: N	Slopeside accom.: Y
	Restaurants: 13	Acres of ski: 3065
	Bars: 5	Nearest Airport: Kelowna
	Nearest Train: Salmon Arm	Info phone: +12505420224 \| Silver Star Resort Info Website

Visitor Reviews of Silver Star

Kerry & Jackie from NEW ZEALAND writes:

We spent a winter here, it was great, weather was mostly fine with snow at night, very few days where we didn't want to ski. Temps ranged from -26deg to 5deg, winter snow was dry & powdery, spring was great corn. Nice tree skiing, a lot of skiable terrain, easy stuff on the sunny side (Vance Creek), more challenging at the back (Putnam Creek)where some runs were almost vertical, yet over there was also the smoothest & most even gradient we'd ever skied on - Gypsy Queen. Nice little eatery over at the halfway station on that side too. Silver Star Village is very pretty, always something on, good choice of accommodation & eateries, swimming pool, gym, and night skiing as well. As Kiwis, we loved the ski-in/out of the place, so easy to drop off a jacket at your lodgings & just click back on & ski off down Skunk Hollow to the chairlift for another run... there were a few races there, an Over-the-Hill downhill for masters-types, with local GS & slaloms now & then. The FIS course was a good one, right length & pitch. Christmas Bowl was often moguls and there were all sorts of off-piste places that begged to be explored, all trails (usually)got us back to a lift base unless we really got carried away with tree-skiing & tried to go all the way to Vernon... Apparently there are a few bears about & also the odd cougar track - we saw photos of a bear breaking into someone's house, he looked friendly. The mountain-host people are great, say Hi to Tom & Betty Campbell if you run into them. We had a great time there, we will be back when funds permit!!!

2005-07-26

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