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Silver Knife at Big Sky Resort

Intermediate · 701 m long with 219 m of vertical, averaging 17° and 24° at its steepest, facing NW.

24°steepest 50 m
17°average pitch
701 mlength
219 mvertical
2534 mtop elevation
NWfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Silver Knife

Lifts that reach the top: Thunder Wolf (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Ramcharger 8 - High Speed (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Southern Comfort (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 10 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Thunder Wolf
  2. Ski unnamed intermediate trail (intermediate)
  3. Ski Tippy's Tumble (intermediate)
  4. Ski Silver Knife (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins unnamed intermediate trail. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Swift Current 6 (1 min), Ramcharger 8 - High Speed (1 min), unnamed magic carpet (2 min).

See Silver Knife 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.