Corridor: A Trip Down Northstar's Most Technically Challenging Pitch

A run down Northstar’s Corridor trail in December 2020. From a strictly technical sense, we feel this is Northstar’s most challenging marked run (other black-diamond trails feature fewer obstacles but boast much longer pitches). Thanks to its location below the Comstock Express chair, locals refer to this run as the “Hollywood Line.”
Still, this pitch is nowhere near as formidable as those offered by competing Lake Tahoe resorts. While Northstar receives a 6/10 for challenge in our ratings, this is much lower than the 8/10s earned by Heavenly and Sierra-at-Tahoe-and substantially inferior to the monumental 10/10s boasted by Squaw Valley, Alpine Meadows, and Kirkwood.
Relatively early-season conditions still existed on the day of this clip, but the obstacles we navigated stay present throughout the season.
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[@arjunski]

Way harder than it looks on camera for sure though. Great video, I really like the channel! :)

[@PeakRankings]

Thanks a lot!

[@SolaceEasy]

There's some more technical terrain on the extreme skiers left of the backside that is harder. Corridor is hard when it is icy.

[@kaiyeung8757]

What chairlift did you take to get their?

[@PeakRankings]

The Comstock Express.

[@immortalhamster1645]

The rapids, burnout, all of Martis camp lift seemed much harder than this. It is pretty steep in that top bit but if you get into the trees I would imagine there’s some much more interesting stuff.

[@PeakRankings]

In our view those are longer and may require more endurance; however, we believe navigating the rocks and steep pitch in Corridor requires more technical skill.

[@ST19859]

Agreed, most of the ungroomed off Lookout Mtn is way harder than this, also the far skiers left of the backside. Corridor is pretty mild honestly, we used to build kickers at the top and air into it on good snow days

[@chentony5620]

Cannot find this run on the Map

[@BowserHasFun]

The Corridor run no longer exists as of the 2022-23 ski season due to the Comstock Express being upgraded to a high speed six pack in the summer of 2022.

[@Preston_skis]

How is this even a remotely hard run its like ten turns

[@PeakRankings]

Yep. It's still the most technical run at Northstar in our view. Other Tahoe resorts offer substantially more in the way of challenge.

[@jameszeng2666]

Been to all the resorts on Epic/Ikon in Tahoe region ... I have to say Northstar is the most boring and the least challenging ... will not return again for sure

[@ST19859]

You are missing out then, its not terribly challenging but its fun as hell on a good powder day through the tree runs

[@jameszeng2666]

@@ST19859 with full respect, all resorts are fun in powder days... And Northstar will be extremely crowded because it's the easiest and closest :)