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Shotgun Lower at Castle Mountain Resort

Advanced · 360 m long with 115 m of vertical, averaging 18° and 23° at its steepest, facing NE.

23°steepest 50 m
18°average pitch
360 mlength
115 mvertical
1568 mtop elevation
NEfaces

Snow and sun

Shotgun Lower is poleward-facing: least winter sun, holds cold powder longest, can stay firm or icy.

Grooming: backcountry. Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Shotgun Lower

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)
  9. Ski Shotgun Lower (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins North Run. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Green Chair (1 min), Buckaroo Carpet (1 min), Sundance Triple Chair (2 min).

See Shotgun Lower 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.