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Sunlight at Big Sky Resort

Intermediate · 741 m long with 168 m of vertical, averaging 13° and 21° at its steepest, facing S.

21°steepest 50 m
13°average pitch
741 mlength
168 mvertical
2739 mtop elevation
Sfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Sunlight

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 34 minutes, intermediate 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 Sunlight (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins Hippy Highway. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Shedhorn 4 - High Speed (2 min).

See Sunlight 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.