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Shaftway at Big Sky Resort

Advanced · 897 m long with 181 m of vertical, averaging 11° and 21° at its steepest, facing N.

21°steepest 50 m
11°average pitch
897 mlength
181 mvertical
2671 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Shaftway

Lifts that reach the top: Lone Tree 4 (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Lone Peak Tram (skiing freeride terrain to get there); Headwaters 2 (skiing freeride terrain to get there); Challenger 3 (skiing freeride terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 11 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Madison 8
  2. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  3. Ski Lazy Jack (easy)
  4. Ski Stillwater Traverse (intermediate)
  5. Ski Meriwether (intermediate)
  6. Ski Stillwater Traverse (intermediate)
  7. Ride Lone Tree 4
  8. Ski Horseshoe (intermediate)
  9. Ski Lookout Ridge (intermediate)
  10. Ski Meriwether Cuttoff (intermediate)
  11. Ski Shaftway (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins Moonshine, Marshall. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Madison 8 (4 min), Derringer 4 (5 min).

See Shaftway 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.