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Mule Skinner at Big Sky Resort

Intermediate · 1552 m long with 204 m of vertical, averaging 9° and 23° at its steepest, facing SW.

23°steepest 50 m
9°average pitch
1552 mlength
204 mvertical
2797 mtop elevation
SWfaces

Snow and sun

Mule Skinner is south-west-facing: warm afternoon sun, softens and refreezes the most after the sunniest aspect.

How to get to Mule Skinner

Lifts that reach the top: Shedhorn 4 - High Speed (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Dakota 3 (skiing advanced terrain to get there); Lone Peak Tram (skiing advanced terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 34 minutes, intermediate 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 Lobo Meadows (intermediate)
  10. Ski Cow Flats (intermediate)
  11. Ride Shedhorn 4 - High Speed
  12. Ski Duck Walk (intermediate)
  13. Ski Upper Sunlight (intermediate)
  14. Ski unnamed intermediate trail (intermediate)
  15. Ski Mule Skinner (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins unnamed advanced trail, Rock Valley. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Dakota 3 (1 min), Shedhorn 4 - High Speed (4 min).

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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.