First, getting to the main parking lot. From Empire Canyon and Bandana run: Take the Ruby high-speed quad, the chair to the left as you come out of Empire Lodge. At the top of Ruby, go straight across, above the chair to the left, as far as you can to Ontario (green). On Ontario, there are
two options: 1] branch off onto Homeward Bound (green), then ski down to Snowpark Express
highspeed quad to ride all the way to the parking lot, or take Homestake or Crown Point lifts to ski down Bald Mtn. 2] At the end of Ontario, take either Viking or Judge chairs to Snowpark Express highspeed quad to ride all the way to the parking lot, or take Homestake or Crown Point lifts to ski down Bald Mtn.

Viking is the furthest chair from the end of the Ontario to the right then straight ahead, Judge is
the second chair to the right--turn and go past the Quincy loading maze.

From Flagstaff Mtn., and Northside, and Quincy highspeed quads: Follow the directions from the top of Ruby chair for Empire Canyon.

NOTE: There are four other options, but they are too complex to try to explain. Discover them
by exploring. Also, three of the four involve long flat stretches that usually require some
walking.

From Mayflower: At the top of Mayflower, turn right and go straight across Stein’s Way to the
path that goes into the woods. This takes you to Perseverence. Ski down to the Sultan highspeed quad . At
the top of Sultan, ski down to the base of the Wasatch highspeed quad, pass it, and go to the Crown Point
chair (or go to Homestake or Silver Lake Express via Birdseye). A more difficult option: go
down Stein’s Way to Finis(expert).

Most of Deer Valley’s runs are intermediate. The easiest intermediate runs are off the Northside
Chair and at Deer Crest. Northside is more popular, since it is a high-speed chair. Deer Crest
offers no lift lines and empty runs.

Bald Mtn. (Wasatch and Sultan quads) has steeper intermediate runs. Looking downhill from
the top, the runs are easier to your left and get more difficult the right, to the Advanced
Intermediate Wizard, Perseverence, and Tycoon.

Bald Eagle Mtn. (Carpenter high-speed quad) has Last Chance, the easiest (see the Bear
House). It’s our favorite last run of the day when going back to the main parking lot.

Solid Muldoon, straight ahead from the top of Homestake chair or after making a U-Turn off
Carpenter, is a nice intermediate cruise with one steeper spot beside the Olympic aerial jump.

White Owl, double blue, rarely groomed, includes the Olympic area hill. Warning– the landing
hill is beyond black diamond steep. There is an escape route to the right. Start down Success by
making a U-turn under the Carpenter chair.

Big Stick is one of the most popular intermediate runs at Deer Valley, discussed separately
under How to Ski Big Stick.

There are some difficult (double blue) intermediate runs off the Empire Canyon Express chair.
Supreme, skiers left, is groomed every day. Orion, skiers right, is groomed most days, but has
one short expert pitch. Empire bowl, the vast snow field under the chair, is double blue to
skiers right of the chair, but it is heavily moguled for the first 800 vertical feet, after which the
bowl funnels onto either Orion or Supreme. WARNING: Lady Morgan Bowl, to the left of
Supreme, is much steeper than it looks, and even Experts, if they don’t know where
they are going, can get into serious trouble on this run. DO NOT ski Lady Morgan until after
you talk to Ski Patrol on how to do it.

There are several ways to ski Big Stick. After making the U-turn at the top of Carpenter high
speed quad chair, stop facing downhill. Solid Muldoon is straight ahead. Next on your right,
where there is an opening into the pine trees, is Know You Don’t. Next on the right is Big
Stick proper, and, one more to the right, Roamer. Know You Don’t starts as a green run. Stop
when you see the run ahead disappear. You are at the start location for the Olympic Slalom
Race Course. Advance to the edge of the drop off to look down an Olympic Race course. Off
to the right below is the start of the Olympic mogul Race Course. To the right, you will see a
narrow, but not steep, track that takes you back to Big Stick. Or go directly down Big Stick, or
go down Roamer and you will end up on Big Stick.

Big Stick face, the drop just below where Little Stick branches off, is a terrific steep run.
Improving Intermediates will find its well groomed surface a delight for testing out steeper runs.
Experts returning to the parking lot at the end of day prefer this as the way home, coming from
either the Homestake or Crown Point chairs.

The runs stay in better condition and you never feel like you are going to get run over by a boarder. The scenery is beautiful and there are plenty of challenging runs.

The newest day lodge is the Empire Lodge. This season, 2004 to 2005, there will be a skier's answer to a snowboarder's terrain park, no half-pipes, but there will be rails and jumps near this lodge. My eleven-year-old can't wait.