Snowsure: 3.9
- Occasionally gets enough snow for skiing
- Is often closed due to a lack of snow
- Occasionally suffers from a lack of snow
- Rarely suffers from a lack of snow
- Mt Seymour is snowsure even in the poorest seasons
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June 28, 2012
stoneronskis
stoneronskis
Seymour is a great little hill, good for learning and amazing prices, cheapest of the local mountains. The largest draw back was the lifts, as they were rather old. But they are updating the Mystery chair over this summer to be ready for this coming winter. It's supposed to be a quad express, so this should not only greatly relieve the lines, it'll also halve the time sat on the lift! And, apparently, also upgrading the chairs on the lodge lift..can't wait to try them out!
March 20, 2012
Jewls
Jewls
I agree with another reviewer:
If you want to ski in a resort go to a resort. I love the fact that I can bring my children here and ski the whole season an $800 early bird family seasons pass. Find a mountain any place in the world with that kind of a value.
Mt. Seymour is the best local ski hill for families and people looking for a good deal to enjoy the great outdoors, if you can't learn to sit on a regular speed chair lift than maybe you are not good enough to ski anyways!
March 15, 2012
Austin
Austin
Started learning on this mountain in 08-09 and can't be bothered to go anywhere else. I go mainly every weekend, and try to get a few mid week nights in as much as I can. Great staff, great prices for food compared to other North Shore mountains (Grouse). Chair lifts are quite slow, but they could be worst!
March 04, 2012
Harjitjutla
Harjitjutla
Seymour is a great little hill. Yes the chairs sucks but the terrain is well worth the pain. They have only natural snow and have not sold out to the bull of the other locals. Is it is what it is. A little local mountain. If you are looking to for big mountain and don't mind dropping $100 for a day ticket then you can go to Blackcomb or Whistler. Or yeah don't forget to factor in your gas and food. $200 day easily and 4 hour round trip from Vancouver.
Peace
March 03, 2012
El Cheapo Ryder
El Cheapo Ryder
Yo, best thing about Seymour is you don't have to buy a lift ticket unless you are a lazy mofo. Just strap your board on your back and use snowshoes (or get some skins for your touring skis) and hike up twenty minutes and then drop down into the resort and take all the runs you want. The hike up on the side is BC parks so it's free and no one can stop you from skiing/riding out through the resort if you wish.
March 01, 2012
Mike
Mike
I loved this little hill. Had reasonably priced intro lessons that included rentals and lift tickets for my girlfriend, while I got to ski some decent terrain. I've spent ample time at large resorts and I have to say, I prefer the slow double chairs to high speed quads! The slower lifts help the snow stick around for the day. You might even get a few freshies past 9:30AM which is more than I can say for Whistler.
There are a ton of short, steep terrain features everywhere that are worth a few turns - maybe 5 -10 and can be challenging. Ski touring that looks decent is easy to access nearby.
The beginner lifts are great. My girlfriend loved the magic carpet thing and had a great first experience skiing. However, the instructors were not overly helpful and I ended up teaching her more than they did.
Overall, I love this place. I would ski here more than a few days a year, but still a great place to come from time to time. I hear ladies ski free on Thursdays too!
February 24, 2012
Vince Fairleigh
Vince Fairleigh
I haven't skied Seymour in 20ish years, it is a beginners MTN, I go to Seymour to alpine tour ski, frequently, It is a short hike with maximum scenery. I love the first, second and third peaks in the winter and summer. The first peak is a double black diamond when skied, this is my favourite, but be aware of the avalanche warnings and be prepared, I always carry a satellite beacon, water.... probes and transceivers/beacons are also a good idea. Many people snow shoeing hike this too.
February 16, 2012
SeymourSwag
SeymourSwag
If you don't want to read the wall of bias text below this is a pretty good summary of Seymour
The lifts suck! but it's good, it keeps everybody away and the runs wide open and the lift tickets are dirt cheap.
The parks rock! even if you ride Grouse or Cypress you can't argue with that.
They have 100% natural snow that doesn't get tracked out because most of the people know how to at least get down the mountain.
Don't blame Seymour when your gear gets stolen, it's not like a local who rides there all the time is going to steal your things.
Yeah, they could use some more racks. When it's busy there's nowhere to lean your stuff. But you got up the mountain some how, just throw it in your car, and bam no theft either! 2 birds 1 stone!
Seymour is probably the best family oriented mountain, it's old timey and nostalgic and all the staff are in a good mood. Great mountain to learn on and it also manages to be the best mountain for a young get rowdy crowd too. Because everybody respects each other we're all there to ride and have a good time so peep the technique and go ride Seymour.
[note from the editor: slight editing done for the sake of relevance]
January 29, 2012
Adam
Adam
Rode Seymour for the first time yesterday. In a way it's a slightly strange mountain; as many others have noticed the biggest drawback is the lift setup. Aside from magic carpets, it has three actual lifts, all two-person non-express. Broadly, they kind of cover the entire vertical of the mountain in sections, but they're not set up to be ridden sequentially.
The top lift is Brockton, the middle is Mystery, and the bottom is Lodge. But to get from the top of Lodge to the bottom of Mystery is an extremely annoying (for a boarder) five-minute hike. Getting from the top of Mystery to the bottom of Brockton is just a short shuttle run which isn't so bad, but there's really only one run *out* from the Brockton area back to the Mystery area, and it can involve a hike on a board.
The way the lifts are set up makes it feel like a bonsai version of a much bigger resort, where each chair is a separate area, rather than say Grouse, where you can lap the peak to the lowest available elevation on a single chair (Olympic). Brockton in particular feels like a miniaturized version of an alpine bowl, which is kind of cool, but frustrating when each run lasts about 30 seconds and then you're back on a slow two-person chair. One of the best runs on the mountain is Unicorn, except it goes from the top of Mystery to the bottom of Lodge, so you're then stuck with that damn hike from Lodge to Mystery to get back on any decent runs. And, as everyone else pointed out, the chairs are very slow, even by non-express chair standards; even the Lodge lift, which only covers about 60m of vertical (if that), seems to take just forever.
Another reviewer has a point when he says they can't increase overall lift capacity too much without overwhelming the available space on the runs; but as well as increasing capacity and speed somewhat, it certainly feels like there could be substantial improvements made to the overall layout of the chairs and the runs such that the whole mountain would flow together, not feel like three separate, tiny areas.
The other problem with the two-person chairs is it's extremely annoying to be a single, as they don't run singles lines, so you just have to wade into the giant lift line zoo and try and find another single to partner up with.
On the plus side, it definitely has that friendly, small-town feel many other reviews described; despite the rather chaotic lift lines, everyone in them seems to be cheerful and infallibly polite. All the staff I talked to were very friendly, too. Although all the runs feel too short, the variety of styles and difficulties available is nice. It's odd the double black designation isn't used anywhere, though - there's a substantial gap in difficulty between, say, Unicorn and Cliff House, but they're both denoted single blacks. The terrain features available are impressive and well-maintained, they're available all over the mountain and there's a good variety of difficulties available.
The facilities available seemed mostly fine, and apparently have been upgraded somewhat lately. The only complaint I had in this area is that there's a small number of locking racks, and on half of them, the locking bar is rusted over or misaligned with the hole, so you can't actually use it. The rest of the few locking board slots are, as usual, full of (unlocked) skis left by idiots who don't understand what the hell a locking rack is for, or that some of the spots are not longer than others just to make it easier to stuff your skis into them any old way...so in the end I couldn't actually find anywhere to lock up my board, and bearing in mind another reviewer's note about theft, had to drag it inside to lunch with me. It would be nice if the staff could keep an eye on the racks, shift stuff about when necessary, and fix the broken ones. Cypress and Grouse both have substantially more locking racks, in better condition.
Overall, it was an interesting mountain with some good plus points. The drawbacks are probably less of an issue if you're on skis, and the parks probably are the best out of the three lower mainland mountains. But as an all-mountain boarder I'd probably rather be at either of the other two mountains, until the lift situation is sorted out.
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