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Traverse at Cairngorm

Novice · 906 m long with 63 m of vertical, averaging 4° and — at its steepest, facing SW.

—steepest 50 m
4°average pitch
906 mlength
63 mvertical
1057 mtop elevation
SWfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Traverse

Lifts that reach the top: M1 Poma (skiing novice terrain to get there); unnamed funicular (skiing novice terrain to get there); West Wall Poma (skiing novice terrain to get there); Polar Express (skiing novice terrain to get there); Coire na Ciste T-Bar (skiing novice terrain to get there); Ptarmigan T-Bar (skiing novice terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 7 minutes, novice skiing needed):

  1. Ride Cairngorm Funicular
  2. Ride unnamed funicular
  3. Ski unnamed novice trail (novice)
  4. Ski Traverse (novice)

Where it ends

Joins M1 Race Piste, unnamed novice trail, 105. Nearest lifts from the bottom: unnamed funicular (1 min), M1 Poma (2 min), Cairngorm Funicular (2 min).

See Traverse on the 3D mapAll runs at Cairngorm
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.