I am a long time Apex season pass holder and am a bit disgruntled with some of the reviews about the mountain. I will admit that the holiday season this year did not come without some technical difficulties. However, since the holiday season the lifts have been running flawlessly and the snow has been fantastic. Being from the Okanagan valley, I have my choice of ski resorts and have taken my family skiing to each of them. Every fall, my family and I have the same discussion of where we should buy our season passes. And every year, we come to the same conclusion – Apex is the best deal in the Okanagan. With basically no lift lines and by far the best variety of terrain in the Okanagan, dollar for dollar and run for run, Apex is the best choice.
In response to the review which talked about their 30 minute wait on the chair lift, yes it did happen, I was also on the lift at the time. I was annoyed at the time, but considering my family and I would have spent more time waiting in lift lines than skiing at most other ski resorts, the 30 minutes spent waiting for the lift to be repaired now seems trivial.
Don’t get me wrong, I would love to see Apex remain my family’s little secrete but I feel that a couple of the reviews on this forum are unfair and don’t do justice to the mountain. If you are looking for a mountain that is super family friendly, has an awesome variety of terrain, great snow and small to non-existent lift lines than Apex is a no brainer.

I moved here from Ontario last year. Apex has tough runs, and is definately an experts mountain. It has challenging steeps, chutes, and tree runs, and doesn't get tracked out quickly. I don't find the racing a big deal at all. However, it would be nice if the owners put some money into the hill, the triple lift is really slow, the half pipe takes forever for them to get open, and in 2007-2008, the hill is closing 2 weeks early.

A poor holiday was spent here. Most of the time was waiting for the chair to run. Compared to the other hills you can visit Apex is expensive when you get two old poor chair-lifts. At a time when other ski hills have better and newer facilities Apex is stuck in the past. Compared to other resorts in BC Apex is now in the bottom of the gun-barrel. Golden, Fernie and Revelstoke have better snow and terrain.

As a long time season pass holder I decided to forfeit that option in 2007-08 because of a few recent unhappy years at Apex. I did buy a day pass yesterday and on my way to the lift line people told me not to ski the "quad" as it had been breaking down frequently over the last couple of days with waits on the lift (in the wind) of over 30 minutes. Sure enough, on arrival in the lift line - the chairlift stopped. Customers were left with the option to ski down to the only other lift that would get them back to the parking lot (with waits of over 30 minutes in line) or hike back up the mountain. I climbed - and went to look for my my money back for a ticket that I did not use. "Not our policy" was the response! I now know why it will never be my policy to spend another nickel at this sorry state of a ski resort. They are not user friendly and my advice would be to ski elsewhere - who needs this?

ok i have been snowboarding at apex for 8 years, it has great, dry powder, but the season does not get good until half way through december (usually) i looked at some of the other reviewers complaining about how the mountain katers to the racers and not them, BOOO HOOO, i mean come on you have to wait 30 seconds for some racers to go by before you are allowed to pass threu the course, about there being to many ski patrol going up the lift, and making you wait, THERE IS NO LINE 80 percent of the time you wiat less than 30 seconds to get on the lift. stop crying.