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Great Falls Gully at Big Sky Resort

Expert · 1193 m long with 218 m of vertical, averaging 11° and 22° at its steepest, facing N.

22°steepest 50 m
11°average pitch
1193 mlength
218 mvertical
2879 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

Great Falls Gully is poleward-facing: least winter sun, holds cold powder longest, can stay firm or icy.

Grooming: backcountry. Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Great Falls Gully

Lifts that reach the top: Lone Peak Tram (skiing freeride terrain to get there); Headwaters 2 (skiing freeride terrain to get there); Challenger 3 (skiing freeride terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 20 minutes, freeride skiing needed):

  1. Ride Madison 8
  2. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  3. Ski Lazy Jack (easy)
  4. Ride Headwaters 2
  5. Ski unnamed expert trail (expert)
  6. Hike unnamed expert trail (expert)
  7. Ski unnamed expert trail (expert)
  8. Hike unnamed expert trail (expert)
  9. Ski Three Moons (expert)
  10. Ski Headwaters Hiking Area (extreme)
  11. Ski Deepwater Bowl (extreme)
  12. Ski Great Falls Gully (expert)

Where it ends

Joins unnamed expert trail, Horseshoe. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Madison 8 (7 min), Derringer 4 (7 min).

See Great Falls Gully 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.