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Rock Valley at Big Sky Resort

Advanced · 3151 m long with 349 m of vertical, averaging 10° and 25° at its steepest, facing S.

25°steepest 50 m
10°average pitch
3151 mlength
349 mvertical
2941 mtop elevation
Sfaces

Snow and sun

Rock Valley is equator-facing: the sunniest aspect, softens earliest and suffers most in warm spells.

Grooming: backcountry. Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Rock Valley

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 37 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 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)
  16. Ski Rock Valley (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins unnamed expert trail, Badlands, unnamed advanced trail, Mule Skinner. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Dakota 3 (1 min), Shedhorn 4 - High Speed (6 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.