Night Boarding in Stevens Pass!

Last night my sister and I got together with a couple of friends to take a snowboarding trip up to Stevens Pass. Since the night boarding time frame is 4 PM-1o PM we did our best to get there closer to 4, but of course with the digging equipment out and other prep "stuff", we ended up not getting up there until around 7 PM.

Lift tickets at Stevens for the night hours cost $38/person (kids and seniors tickets are less), and it looks like they upgraded the ticket system from scanable pieces of paper to reloadable cards. Every chairlift you go on has a scanner at the entrance, so if you keep your card in a chest pocket the machine can scan you without you having to take your card out. And since the card is reloadable, you can actually keep the card and purchase your lift ticket online, load it to the card and not wait in line the next time. Very convenient! (Not sure how new this system actually is, keep in mind I haven't been to the mountains in a couple of years...)

The slopes were definitely icier than I preferred, but the mountain itself is GREAT. The chairlifts were super fast and the runs were long and can be challenging (if you want them to be!). But the best part of night boarding on a Sunday night is the fact that you pretty much have the mountain to yourselves. Nothing beats not waiting at the chairlifts!

From Seattle, it probably takes about an hour and a half to 2 hours to get up to Stevens. If you take Highway 2, which runs through Monroe, it's a two lane highway so I would plan your trip for about 2 hours, in case you have someone in front of you that's going 10 mph under speed limit ;)

On our drive back (which was at 12 AM) the snow never stopped...looks like we brought the snow down from the mountain with us! It was snowing pretty heavily in Everett, Shoreline etc but it seems to have gone away now.

Amy Kizaki
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Seattle PowerSearch Team

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