Nice to see this vid. My wife and I are currently planning a month long trip to Silverstar from New Zealand. Their prices are way better than other nearby resorts and a seasons pass will get you a couple of days at a number of other resorts like Apex and Big White from memory. Also their adaptive programme is really awesome so can be a perfect option for anyone less abled.
Great call & cool to know they have a great adaptive program. I volunteered for a while with the Vancouver Adaptive snow sports program. Get's me so stoked to see everyone having a fun time out there.
Apex, Big White, Baldy and Sun Peaks are all worth a day trip or one night just for fun. Apex especially is wicked, tons of fall line skiing and zero lift lines, especially on the weekdays.
As a pass holder for the Star, it’s been Sun Peaks, Apex and Whitewater for reciprocals. A couple days at each. The Big White pass went away after the old owner of both passed away and the kids couldn’t get along
I love silverstar I go every year I wish you had talked about the cross country skiing and that sort of stuff it has such great trails for that stuff and also lots of snowshoeing trails and the village is awesome! Ski in ski out, super small and cozy, and then the activities part has bowling (might have shut down), a huge tubing hill, ice skating on a frozen pong (really cool) and also a snow mobile track. Also near that area is an entrance to the snow showing trails which if you are staying there for a while is a great thing to do on maybe a non ski day or something. ONE MORE THING! The sledding is so fun! Around the hotels are hills and stuff for sledding but the sledding is like jumping off ice chunks so it’s not for the faint hearted. We also waited for the resort to close and then at like 11 at night went sledding on the groomer that our condo is on and the ski patrol guys were so chill they said it’s technically not allowed but just don’t be crazy and stay next to the hotel and watch for cats grooming and he’ll forget we were even there. Btw we stay at snowbird lodge which is sooo nice. Great resort I recommend it to anyone
I had no idea they had so many fun activities outside of skiing! This is great intel for everyone reading the comments. Thanks for sharing. Sounds like you had an amazing trip.
I went to high school in Vernon, and during those 5 years, I'd easily put 80 days a season on snow. It was so easy to cut class and hitchhike to the ski hill. Usually getting picked up by someone who knows your parents and lets them know you weren't at school 😂. While I realize now how lucky we were to have a ski hill that close, trips to SilverStar definitely aren't on my bucket shred list these days. Feel like I could ride that place blindfolded and still make it to the bottom in one piece. Cool to see/hear an outsiders perspective, though.
Cutting school and hitch hiking to the mountain is wicked! I never lived close enough to a ski hill to do that. Missed a lot of class in order to catch salmon though.
Thunderstuck is a good joke and I'm not a dad. Never mind my age; I think The Razor's Edge is the best AC/DC album since For Those About To Rock, where Brian Johnson's voice had the same range but started forming nodes on his vocal cords that weren't there on Back in Black. But on the Money Talks tour (for the Razor's Edge in 1990-1991) ) Brian Johnson sung AC/DC LIVE better than he ever had before or since. But I digress; my favourite seat on Copperhead Strike is any in car 3 (rows 5-6 followed by car 4); on Afterburn it's back left; on Thunder Striker it's back left and Fury 325 it's front left, (yup, even though I'm usually a back car enthusiast). Thanks for posting!
My local mountain, so much fun! Glad to hear your take on it. The lift lines are also really reasonable compared to many of the other more popular mountains which is always nice.
my grandparents used to really love SilverStar back in the day! they haven't told me much except for when my grandma broke her leg skiing up there in '67 or so? good video, another ski resort i hope to visit some day
@riseandalpine I picked up a 108 unleashed 191cm this year, I was surprised it was about 100g heavier then then 114 in the same length. I already have the faction mana 3, so I was looking at something more sturdy. Hopefully the year shows up like they keep saying it is. Keep up the great content!
This is NO SECRET to my family. We’ve traveled all the way from Australia to ski there twice, and Loved it both times! Spending so much time on the backside, doing runs such as Freefall, Uncle Buck and 3 Wise Men in and out of trees was the stuff I loved (and still love). Dropping down to Comet or Silver Woods first thing in the morning is something I wish I could do every day. Plus, we found the village great! We said it was as if Walt Disney had designed a ski village street. 100% WOULD GO BACK!
Another very liveable place looks to me. Really liking those trees the backside and those big groomers on the front side. Nice and mellow place. I love starting the day on nice fresh big fast and wide groomers. Gets those legs nice and primed for the big stuff and you get to do some styling and show off in front all the ladies riding the lifts 🙂 Maybe some 70's style ski ballet on the super short and skinnies lol I'm so excited for ski season and I don't eve get to go skiing haha. I'm a sick puppy 🎿
Prime ski ballet location. I really want to learn that 360 cork thing they do with their extra long poles. Would be a hilarious and unexpected trick to pull out of the repertoire near the lift line.
@riseandalpine After a day of skiing, I went down to brewers pond, rented skates and a stick and played a pickup game with strangers. So cool to play ice hockey on a pond at night vs street hockey in WA.
depends what kind of skier you are. Small resort, runs are short, not a ton of variety if you're an intermediate and beginner, no high speed quad. Great steeps and tree skiing for advanced and experts. No on mountain lodging, not really a destination resort. On a pow day it's amazing...but again, runs are short compared to resorts in BC and other areas.
You'll love it. Also check out all the other interior resorts, it makes for a sweet less talked about winter road trip (Big White, Sun Peaks, SilverStar, Apex, Baldy)
Been skiing here annually since around 2004 on the Family Day Weekend (before it was Family Day). It's a great mountain - probably my favourite. That might be down to seeing my kids progress from pizza & fries at ski school there to them now ripping down Russty Whistle, Headwall, Bon Diablo, and all of the rest of them on the back side. Even on a busy day it's never that busy. Everyone is so friendly, there are loads of ski in/out places, and the dining options are much better now. It's a great place.
I skied SilverStar 2006 right after an 80cm dump. Was super fun! Would love for you to do an east coast trip to do reviews like this. Le Massif (10m more vert than Silverstar), Tremblant, Mont Ste Anne, Sugarloaf, Saddleback, Jay Peak, Stowe, Whiteface, etc.
I've skied all these spots and had a wicked time! Not sure I could ever rationalize a trip out East though. With the price of flights I could probably spend the same amount going to Europe or Japan.
Visited once 15 years ago and your review is spot on - i even caught one of those night dumps and enjoyed an awesome powder day on the backside with some locals. I had tons of fun there. To be fair I’ve made around 12 trips to Whistler since but I’m looking forward to getting back again sometime.
Never been, yet. Revising to-do list. Now booked for 3 nights @Red beginning March. New set of Faction Prodigy 3.0's in the mail. Jack-level is now surpassing teats territory... Is there a code for the sauce subscriber discount, saucy bossy?
These videos are so nice and helpful! Do you plan on doing one on Big White? I am trying to decide which resort to become a ski instructor in. Keep up the amazing work!
I can't do Big White because I didn't have enough visibility/able to film enough of the mountain on my visit. I always want to show a mountain in all it's glory. Big White is well loved so it would definitely be a sick option as an instructor.
Did a powder highway trip last year with heaps of the places you’ve started doing. Silver was a last minute add in but wow would recommend a few days there. So close to Vernon
Nice to see this vid. My wife and I are currently planning a month long trip to Silverstar from New Zealand. Their prices are way better than other nearby resorts and a seasons pass will get you a couple of days at a number of other resorts like Apex and Big White from memory. Also their adaptive programme is really awesome so can be a perfect option for anyone less abled.
Haven’t been yet but went to Apex last year and it was epic got 10,000 meters of vertical one day fast lift no line and steep!
Great call & cool to know they have a great adaptive program. I volunteered for a while with the Vancouver Adaptive snow sports program. Get's me so stoked to see everyone having a fun time out there.
Apex, Big White, Baldy and Sun Peaks are all worth a day trip or one night just for fun. Apex especially is wicked, tons of fall line skiing and zero lift lines, especially on the weekdays.
As a pass holder for the Star, it’s been Sun Peaks, Apex and Whitewater for reciprocals. A couple days at each. The Big White pass went away after the old owner of both passed away and the kids couldn’t get along
@@corbel793it's 2 free days total. 50% additional days
I love silverstar I go every year I wish you had talked about the cross country skiing and that sort of stuff it has such great trails for that stuff and also lots of snowshoeing trails and the village is awesome! Ski in ski out, super small and cozy, and then the activities part has bowling (might have shut down), a huge tubing hill, ice skating on a frozen pong (really cool) and also a snow mobile track. Also near that area is an entrance to the snow showing trails which if you are staying there for a while is a great thing to do on maybe a non ski day or something.
ONE MORE THING! The sledding is so fun! Around the hotels are hills and stuff for sledding but the sledding is like jumping off ice chunks so it’s not for the faint hearted. We also waited for the resort to close and then at like 11 at night went sledding on the groomer that our condo is on and the ski patrol guys were so chill they said it’s technically not allowed but just don’t be crazy and stay next to the hotel and watch for cats grooming and he’ll forget we were even there. Btw we stay at snowbird lodge which is sooo nice. Great resort I recommend it to anyone
I had no idea they had so many fun activities outside of skiing! This is great intel for everyone reading the comments. Thanks for sharing. Sounds like you had an amazing trip.
I went to high school in Vernon, and during those 5 years, I'd easily put 80 days a season on snow. It was so easy to cut class and hitchhike to the ski hill. Usually getting picked up by someone who knows your parents and lets them know you weren't at school 😂. While I realize now how lucky we were to have a ski hill that close, trips to SilverStar definitely aren't on my bucket shred list these days. Feel like I could ride that place blindfolded and still make it to the bottom in one piece. Cool to see/hear an outsiders perspective, though.
Cutting school and hitch hiking to the mountain is wicked! I never lived close enough to a ski hill to do that. Missed a lot of class in order to catch salmon though.
It sounds like Silverstar may be good place for someone like me who is just getting started, and looking to ski in the trees.
100% You would have a blast in deer park
Thunderstuck is a good joke and I'm not a dad. Never mind my age; I think The Razor's Edge is the best AC/DC album since For Those About To Rock, where Brian Johnson's voice had the same range but started forming nodes on his vocal cords that weren't there on Back in Black. But on the Money Talks tour (for the Razor's Edge in 1990-1991) ) Brian Johnson sung AC/DC LIVE better than he ever had before or since.
But I digress; my favourite seat on Copperhead Strike is any in car 3 (rows 5-6 followed by car 4); on Afterburn it's back left; on Thunder Striker it's back left and Fury 325 it's front left, (yup, even though I'm usually a back car enthusiast). Thanks for posting!
Waiting to hear a song of you. Greetings from chile IX ARAUCANIA
Your work ethic is respectable. Great videos after one another!
Working hard to share these reviews before we get back to the regular scheduled programming
@@riseandalpine let’s go!! (In Tom Brady voice)
My local mountain, so much fun! Glad to hear your take on it. The lift lines are also really reasonable compared to many of the other more popular mountains which is always nice.
oh you are LUCKY
Great spot to call home Brian. Thanks for having me :)
my grandparents used to really love SilverStar back in the day! they haven't told me much except for when my grandma broke her leg skiing up there in '67 or so? good video, another ski resort i hope to visit some day
SilverStar must have been really quiet back in '67. Are your grand parents still skiing?
Im sure you have answered this, but what length so you ride the 114s?
191cm
@riseandalpine I picked up a 108 unleashed 191cm this year, I was surprised it was about 100g heavier then then 114 in the same length. I already have the faction mana 3, so I was looking at something more sturdy. Hopefully the year shows up like they keep saying it is. Keep up the great content!
This is NO SECRET to my family. We’ve traveled all the way from Australia to ski there twice, and Loved it both times! Spending so much time on the backside, doing runs such as Freefall, Uncle Buck and 3 Wise Men in and out of trees was the stuff I loved (and still love). Dropping down to Comet or Silver Woods first thing in the morning is something I wish I could do every day. Plus, we found the village great! We said it was as if Walt Disney had designed a ski village street. 100% WOULD GO BACK!
So glad you've had the SilverStar experience. Sound like some amazing memories. I can just taste that early morning lap on the comet!
Omg saw this video 12 seconds after it was posted with only 1 view
Crazy!! Right after I clicked post.
Another very liveable place looks to me. Really liking those trees the backside and those big groomers on the front side. Nice and mellow place. I love starting the day on nice fresh big fast and wide groomers. Gets those legs nice and primed for the big stuff and you get to do some styling and show off in front all the ladies riding the lifts 🙂 Maybe some 70's style ski ballet on the super short and skinnies lol I'm so excited for ski season and I don't eve get to go skiing haha. I'm a sick puppy 🎿
Prime ski ballet location. I really want to learn that 360 cork thing they do with their extra long poles. Would be a hilarious and unexpected trick to pull out of the repertoire near the lift line.
It’s never icy 🥶
I played ice hockey for the first time while visiting Silver Star.
Amazing! Where are you from?
@riseandalpine After a day of skiing, I went down to brewers pond, rented skates and a stick and played a pickup game with strangers. So cool to play ice hockey on a pond at night vs street hockey in WA.
I was thinking of skiing at Mt Baker this Winter, is it worth the trip?
100% - Baker is absolutely epic. Great slackcountry opportunities as well.
Baker is epic
depends what kind of skier you are. Small resort, runs are short, not a ton of variety if you're an intermediate and beginner, no high speed quad. Great steeps and tree skiing for advanced and experts. No on mountain lodging, not really a destination resort. On a pow day it's amazing...but again, runs are short compared to resorts in BC and other areas.
Was just looking into all the ski resorts in Canada this ones on my list !
You'll love it. Also check out all the other interior resorts, it makes for a sweet less talked about winter road trip (Big White, Sun Peaks, SilverStar, Apex, Baldy)
James… Zermatt has a 2,300 VERTICAL METER drop… just sayin’ 😊⛷
HOLY Zermatt! Would love to come ski out that way
@@riseandalpine…. what a blast! A shot of Liquid Courage at 3883m followed by a nonstop carve to Zermatt ⛷
I was skiing at silver like 15 years ago and at the top of the chair they were advertising -49° C with windchill. it was cold af 🥶
Good lord. Good on ya for actually getting out there. I might have had to opt for a few lodge beers between laps.
@@riseandalpine oh, there were. there was no other way!
Been skiing here annually since around 2004 on the Family Day Weekend (before it was Family Day). It's a great mountain - probably my favourite. That might be down to seeing my kids progress from pizza & fries at ski school there to them now ripping down Russty Whistle, Headwall, Bon Diablo, and all of the rest of them on the back side. Even on a busy day it's never that busy. Everyone is so friendly, there are loads of ski in/out places, and the dining options are much better now. It's a great place.
Such a wicked spot to go with the family! Sounds like great memories.
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I unfortunately can't, I didn't ski/see enough of the mountain to make a fair review video
@@riseandalpine so do more skiing at big white this year so you can
Another insane video. ❤ You make me discover somethings that I never saw before keep the good work and the hot sauce❤
Glad you are enjoying these review videos
Silver star is great, especially the backside. My sister and parents live in Vernon, so we're up there lots.
Glad you like it as much as me. Such a fun spot.
Awesome vid man. I love that mountain
I skied SilverStar 2006 right after an 80cm dump. Was super fun! Would love for you to do an east coast trip to do reviews like this. Le Massif (10m more vert than Silverstar), Tremblant, Mont Ste Anne, Sugarloaf, Saddleback, Jay Peak, Stowe, Whiteface, etc.
I've skied all these spots and had a wicked time! Not sure I could ever rationalize a trip out East though. With the price of flights I could probably spend the same amount going to Europe or Japan.
@@riseandalpine Totally agree with the flights. Cheaper for us out east to do Europe too. Would more of a boondocking ski bum road trip!
Our home mountain let’s go!!
You should have asked buddy for a beer and a snowmobile ride back to the base instead of just directions to test the level of friendliness. 😜😉😁
Imagine that eh... A beer and a free ride hahaha
Do you have Schweitzer mountain on your radar? Definitely worth a visit!
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Visited once 15 years ago and your review is spot on - i even caught one of those night dumps and enjoyed an awesome powder day on the backside with some locals. I had tons of fun there. To be fair I’ve made around 12 trips to Whistler since but I’m looking forward to getting back again sometime.
Stoked you've experienced a pow day at the Star! Sick you've done 12 trips to Whistler. Once every year eh?
@@riseandalpine i did 2 a couple of years :-)
🤔 I have a coworker who lives in Vernon, maybe I'll have to test how close we actually are 😂
Do it 😂😂
Never been, yet. Revising to-do list. Now booked for 3 nights @Red beginning March. New set of Faction Prodigy 3.0's in the mail. Jack-level is now surpassing teats territory...
Is there a code for the sauce subscriber discount, saucy bossy?
Red is certainly the best! Totally. Use code STAYSPICY15 for 15% off the sauce :).
@@riseandalpine Stayin' spicy asf. Much love.
These videos are so nice and helpful! Do you plan on doing one on Big White? I am trying to decide which resort to become a ski instructor in. Keep up the amazing work!
I can't do Big White because I didn't have enough visibility/able to film enough of the mountain on my visit. I always want to show a mountain in all it's glory. Big White is well loved so it would definitely be a sick option as an instructor.
@@riseandalpine Fair enough, guess it’s called Big Whiteout for a reason😅 Love the vids anyway
are you planning to visit Marmot Basin in Jasper this season?
Hopefully!
Your conditions looked ideal!
Could not beat them!
Silver Star is my home town resort
Sick spot!
Mee too!! It's a pretty good mountain hey!
@@alaindionne1641 it really is
I was there 27 years ago, loved it.
Such a wonderful place
Ugh too many good options.
Endless dude. Great problem to have.
The hair is working hard . Yeah!
Always LOL
Did a powder highway trip last year with heaps of the places you’ve started doing.
Silver was a last minute add in but wow would recommend a few days there. So close to Vernon
Glad you enjoyed it too! It's unexpectedly fun eh
The backside on a pow day can’t be beat!
It's sick back there!