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Upper Sunlight at Big Sky Resort

Intermediate · 703 m long with 186 m of vertical, averaging 15° and 22° at its steepest, facing S.

22°steepest 50 m
15°average pitch
703 mlength
186 mvertical
2925 mtop elevation
Sfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Upper Sunlight

Lifts that reach the top: Shedhorn 4 - High Speed (skiing novice terrain to get there); Lone Peak Tram (skiing expert terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 33 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)

Where it ends

Joins Sunlight, Screaming Left. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Dakota 3 (3 min), Shedhorn 4 - High Speed (3 min).

See Upper 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.