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Rice Bowl at Big Sky Resort

Advanced · 203 m long with 76 m of vertical, averaging 21° and 35° at its steepest, facing N.

35°steepest 50 m
21°average pitch
203 mlength
76 mvertical
2730 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Rice Bowl

Lifts that reach the top: Explorer Gondola Upper (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Swift Current 6 (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Shedhorn 4 - High Speed (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Lone Peak Tram (skiing expert terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 21 minutes, advanced 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 Jay Walk (easy)
  10. Ski CJ Rd (intermediate)
  11. Ski Rice Bowl (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins Crazy Horse. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Swift Current 6 (5 min), Ramcharger 8 - High Speed (6 min), unnamed magic carpet (6 min).

See Rice 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.