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Southern Cross at Discovery Ski Area

Intermediate · 1271 m long with 267 m of vertical, averaging 12° and 18° at its steepest, facing S.

18°steepest 50 m
12°average pitch
1271 mlength
267 mvertical
2364 mtop elevation
Sfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Southern Cross

Lifts that reach the top: Limelight (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Rumsey (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Anaconda (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 17 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Silver Chief
  2. Ski unnamed intermediate trail (intermediate)
  3. Ski Black Moon (advanced)
  4. Ride Granite
  5. Ski Winning Ridge (intermediate)
  6. Ski Medicine Ridge (intermediate)
  7. Ride Limelight
  8. Ski Claimjumper (intermediate)
  9. Ski Southern Cross (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins unnamed novice trail. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Easy (1 min), Totemoff (1 min), Jubilee (2 min).

See Southern Cross on the 3D mapAll runs at Discovery Ski Area
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.