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Otter Slide at Big Sky Resort

Extreme · 387 m long with 93 m of vertical, averaging 35° and 43° at its steepest, facing SE.

43°steepest 50 m
35°average pitch
387 mlength
93 mvertical
3381 mtop elevation
SEfaces

Snow and sun

Otter Slide is south-east-facing: sun from mid-morning, softens early in spring.

Grooming: backcountry. Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Otter Slide

Lifts that reach the top: Lone Peak Tram (skiing advanced terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 23 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 trail
  6. Ski Highway (advanced)
  7. Ski White Wing (easy)
  8. Ski Lois Lane (easy)
  9. Ride Explorer Gondola Upper
  10. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  11. Ride Lone Peak Tram
  12. Ski Yeti Traverse (advanced)
  13. Ski Otter Slide (extreme)

Where it ends

Joins Lenin, Yeti Traverse, Dictator Chutes. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Powder Seeker 6 (4 min), Shedhorn 4 - High Speed (6 min), Lone Peak Tram (6 min).

See Otter Slide 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.