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Mine Shaft at Big Sky Resort

Advanced · 257 m long with 109 m of vertical, averaging 23° and 32° at its steepest, facing NE.

32°steepest 50 m
23°average pitch
257 mlength
109 mvertical
2425 mtop elevation
NEfaces

Snow and sun

Mine Shaft is poleward-facing: least winter sun, holds cold powder longest, can stay firm or icy.

How to get to Mine Shaft

Lifts that reach the top: Thunder Wolf (skiing advanced terrain to get there); Ramcharger 8 - High Speed (skiing advanced terrain to get there); Southern Comfort (skiing advanced terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 11 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Thunder Wolf
  2. Ski unnamed intermediate trail (intermediate)
  3. Ski Tippy's Tumble (intermediate)
  4. Ski War Dance (advanced)
  5. Ski Colter's Hell (advanced)
  6. Ski Mine Shaft (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins Low Dog. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Thunder Wolf (3 min), Lone Moose Triple (5 min).

See Mine Shaft 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.