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Black & Blue at Big Sky Resort

Intermediate · 483 m long with 77 m of vertical, averaging 9° and 13° at its steepest, facing N.

13°steepest 50 m
9°average pitch
483 mlength
77 mvertical
2531 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

Black & Blue is poleward-facing: least winter sun, holds cold powder longest, can stay firm or icy.

How to get to Black & Blue

Lifts that reach the top: Explorer Gondola Upper (skiing easy terrain to get there); Swift Current 6 (skiing easy terrain to get there); Powder Seeker 6 (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Shedhorn 4 - High Speed (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Challenger 3 (skiing advanced terrain to get there); Headwaters 2 (skiing advanced terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 31 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Thunder Wolf
  2. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  3. Ski Pacifier (easy)
  4. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  5. Ride Swift Current 6
  6. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  7. Ski Jay Walk (easy)
  8. Ski White Wing (easy)
  9. Ski Black & Blue (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins Bozeman Trail, unnamed intermediate trail. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Challenger 3 (1 min), Pony Express 3 (3 min), Explorer Gondola Lower (5 min).

See Black & Blue on the 3D mapAll runs at Big Sky Resort
Measured from OpenStreetMap geometry and elevation via OpenSkiMap (ODbL). Times are rough. Grades, grooming and openings change day to day — check the resort's own reports.