Most spectacular ski adventures lead you to question how great the ski area is relative to others you\u2019ve visited. Only Revelstoke makes you question your prior existence and contemplate staying.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nIf you walk the town you\u2019ll notice a strange look and feel to the town. An old single plex movie theater flanked on both sides by Chinese Restaurants. Down the street are Heli Ski companies: four or five in town.<\/p>\n
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\nYou\u2019ll find Paramjit\u2019s Kitchen. Chef and founder, Goldie Sanghera, cooking up German-Indian fusion food. You read that right: German-Indian fusion. Things like Butter Chicken Spatzle.<\/p>\n
Its kind of like that Twilight Zone episode called \u201cThe Bewitchin\u2019 Pool.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s well to do, but unloved children that discover a new world. They dive into their luxurious swimming pool behind their stately but cold mansion and end up in a lost world and time, where the beloved Aunt T. makes them feel at home and loved.<\/p>\n
The opening narrative is:<\/p>\n
Introduction to a perfect setting: Colonial mansion, spacious grounds, heated swimming pool. All the luxuries money can buy. Introduction to two children: brother and sister, names Jeb and Sport. Healthy, happy, normal youngsters. Introduction to a mother: Gloria Sherwood by name, glamorous by nature. Introduction to a father: Gil Sherwood, handsome, prosperous, the picture of success. A man who has achieved every man’s ambition. Beautiful children, beautiful home, beautiful wife. Idyllic? Obviously. But don’t look too carefully, don’t peek behind the facade. The idyll may have feet of clay.<\/em><\/p>\nAfter the Introduction, Rod Serling says,<\/p>\n
A swimming pool not unlike any other pool, a structure built of tile and cement and money, a backyard toy for the affluent, wet entertainment for the well-to-do. But to Jeb and Sport Sharewood, this pool holds mysteries not dreamed of by the building contractor, not guaranteed in any sales brochure. For this pool has a secret exit that leads to a never-neverland, a place designed for junior citizens who need a long voyage away from reality, into the bottomless regions of the Twilight Zone.<\/em><\/p>\nIf the Powder Highway, or the Powder Triangle, has its own Bewitchin\u2019 Pool, it certainly leads to Revelstoke. If skiing in general has a Bewitchin\u2019 Pool, it certainly leads to Revelstoke.<\/p>\n
Revelstoke Expert Skier Experience<\/strong><\/h2>\nAll of it<\/strong>. It is backcountry after all.<\/p>\nNorth Bowl<\/strong>. Jump a cornice, ski a 55 degree slope, traverse into Greely Bowl, end up in the Beauty and Back 40 Glades. Mike drop, season over<\/u><\/em>. Of course, it\u2019s so fun you\u2019ll do it again, and again.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/greatnorthamericanskiadventure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Revelstoke_north_bowl_revised.jpg\")
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There are a number of ways to access North Bowl. You can take a couple of hikes or a traverse. The hikes will get you to the top of North Bowl where the extreme stuff really takes off. Runs include Powder Assault, Discipline, Mania and Drop In. From Powder Assault, you can access to Greely Bowl. A hard traverse skiers right can also get you over to Greely Bowl. Greely Bowl is also accessible on a long traverse starting at the top of the Stoke Chair. Slide in and stay on the high traverse all the way across. If you access North Bowl by traversing around on Vertigo (stay super high) you can drop in on runs like Unlimited Assets, Meet The Neighbors, Brake Check and Parachute.<\/p>\n
Stoke Chair.<\/strong> Skier\u2019s left off Stoke is South Bowl where you\u2019ll find lots of relatively mellow expert terrain. Skier\u2019s right is separate Reality and Vertigo.<\/p>\nLower Mountain.<\/strong> Kill The Banker under the Gondola is a run of a lifetime. It can be literally your life so be careful. Conifers of Gnarnia Glades is a great tree run for anyone who likes glades. Some of the lines are really tight but they have done some clearing and some areas are even open. It\u2019s not as steep or gnarly as Kill The Banker. There also tree runs in Critical Path Glades, but watch the big rock croppings.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019ve described Salt Lake City as the mecca of North American skiing. It gets there in large part because of their consistent snowfall and number of world-class resorts. The State of Utah even trademarked \u201cThe Greatest Snow on Earth.\u201d Revelstoke doesn\u2019t advertise itself like Utah. It doesn\u2019t have to. Revelstoke is beyond a religious experience, it\u2019s a cult.<\/p>\n