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Dead Top at Big Sky Resort

Advanced · 476 m long with 143 m of vertical, averaging 17° and 37° at its steepest, facing E.

37°steepest 50 m
17°average pitch
476 mlength
143 mvertical
2824 mtop elevation
Efaces

Snow and sun

Dead Top is east-facing: morning sun, softens first and shades by early afternoon.

How to get to Dead Top

Lifts that reach the top: Powder Seeker 6 (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Challenger 3 (skiing expert terrain to get there); Headwaters 2 (skiing expert terrain to get there); Lone Peak Tram (skiing expert terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 27 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Madison 8
  2. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  3. Ski Fast Lane (intermediate)
  4. Ski Lone Wolf (easy)
  5. Ski Chet's Knob (intermediate)
  6. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  7. Ride Swift Current 6
  8. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  9. Ski Jay Walk (easy)
  10. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  11. Ride Powder Seeker 6
  12. Ski Morningstar (intermediate)
  13. Ski Dead Top (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins White Wing, Blue Moon. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Challenger 3 (3 min), Explorer Gondola Upper (3 min), Iron Horse 4 (4 min).

See Dead Top 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.