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Horseshoe Bowl at Big Sky Resort

Expert · 575 m long with 129 m of vertical, averaging 13° and — at its steepest, facing N.

—steepest 50 m
13°average pitch
575 mlength
129 mvertical
2851 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

Horseshoe Bowl 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 Horseshoe Bowl

Lifts that reach the top: Lone Tree 4 (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); 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 9 minutes, expert skiing needed):

  1. Ride Madison 8
  2. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  3. Ski Lazy Jack (easy)
  4. Ski Stillwater Traverse (intermediate)
  5. Ski Meriwether (intermediate)
  6. Ski Stillwater Traverse (intermediate)
  7. Ride Lone Tree 4
  8. Ski Horseshoe (intermediate)
  9. Ski Horseshoe Bowl (expert)

Where it ends

Joins Horseshoe, Trembler. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Lone Tree 4 (3 min), Madison 8 (7 min), Derringer 4 (7 min).

See Horseshoe Bowl 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.