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Shotgun at Castle Mountain Resort

Advanced · 159 m long with 64 m of vertical, averaging 22° and 26° at its steepest, facing E.

26°steepest 50 m
22°average pitch
159 mlength
64 mvertical
1632 mtop elevation
Efaces

Snow and sun

Shotgun is east-facing: morning sun, softens first and shades by early afternoon.

Grooming: backcountry. Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Shotgun

Lifts that reach the top: Sundance Triple Chair (skiing advanced terrain to get there); T-Rex T-Bar (skiing advanced terrain to get there); proposed G T-bar (skiing advanced terrain to get there); Proposed North Bowl Lift (skiing advanced terrain to get there); Tamarack Chair (skiing advanced terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 12 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Proposed North Bowl Lift
  2. Ski Chinook Upper
  3. Ski Syline Traverse
  4. Ski Bandito (intermediate)
  5. Ski Syline Traverse
  6. Ski North Run (easy)
  7. Ski North Shotgun (advanced)
  8. Ski Shotgun (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins Ricochet, Lockey's Getaway, Shotgun Lower. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Green Chair (2 min), Buckaroo Carpet (2 min), Sundance Triple Chair (2 min).

See Shotgun on the 3D mapAll runs at Castle Mountain 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.