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Little Scorpion at Dollar Mountain

Expert · 3149 m long with 394 m of vertical, averaging 13° and 30° at its steepest, facing NW.

30°steepest 50 m
13°average pitch
3149 mlength
394 mvertical
2227 mtop elevation
NWfaces

Snow and sun

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

Grooming: backcountry. Tree skiing (gladed). Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Little Scorpion

Lifts that reach the top: Frenchman's (skiing easy terrain to get there); Flying Squirrel (skiing easy terrain to get there); Christmas (skiing easy terrain to get there); Lookout Express (skiing easy terrain to get there); Challenger (skiing easy terrain to get there); Mayday (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 16 minutes, expert skiing needed):

  1. Ride Flying Squirrel
  2. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  3. Ski Upper College (easy)
  4. Ski Pete's Lane (easy)
  5. Ski Mid Warm Springs (easy)
  6. Ski Lower Warm Springs (easy)
  7. Ski Little Scorpion (expert)

Where it ends

Joins Lower Warm Springs, unnamed advanced trail. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Flying Squirrel (1 min), Challenger (1 min).

See Little Scorpion on the 3D mapAll runs at Dollar Mountain
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.