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Swift Bear at Big Sky Resort

Easy · 299 m long with 41 m of vertical, averaging 8° and 11° at its steepest, facing SW.

11°steepest 50 m
8°average pitch
299 mlength
41 mvertical
2408 mtop elevation
SWfaces

Snow and sun

Swift Bear is south-west-facing: warm afternoon sun, softens and refreezes the most after the sunniest aspect.

How to get to Swift Bear

Lifts that reach the top: Cascade 3 (skiing easy terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 41 minutes, easy skiing needed):

  1. Ride Thunder Wolf
  2. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  3. Ski Pacifier (easy)
  4. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  5. Ride Swift Current 6
  6. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  7. Ski Jay Walk (easy)
  8. Ski White Wing (easy)
  9. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  10. Ski White Otter Access (easy)
  11. Ski White Otter (easy)
  12. Ride Cascade 3
  13. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  14. Ski Middle River (easy)
  15. Ski Swift Bear (easy)

Where it ends

Joins Middle River. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Cascade 3 (2 min), White Otter 2 (2 min).

See Swift Bear 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.