Snow Guide
Snow Guide › Big Sky Resort › Runs › Papa Bear

Papa Bear at Big Sky Resort

Easy · 932 m long with 73 m of vertical, averaging 4° and 9° at its steepest, facing N.

9°steepest 50 m
4°average pitch
932 mlength
73 mvertical
2354 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Papa Bear

Lifts that reach the top: Tweener (skiing easy terrain to get there); Homer (skiing easy terrain to get there); Pull-Up (skiing easy terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 22 minutes, easy skiing needed):

  1. Ride Cabin 3
  2. Ride Lewis and Clark 4 - High Speed
  3. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  4. Ski K1 Return (easy)
  5. Ski High Tide (easy)
  6. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  7. Ride Pull-Up
  8. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  9. Ski Papa Bear (easy)

Where it ends

Joins Gator Way. Nearest lifts from the bottom: S8 (3 min), Lewis and Clark 4 - High Speed (3 min), S7 (3 min).

See Papa Bear 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.