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Lightning Trees at Grand Targhee Resort

Advanced · 546 m long with 230 m of vertical, averaging 23° and 36° at its steepest, facing SW.

36°steepest 50 m
23°average pitch
546 mlength
230 mvertical
2913 mtop elevation
SWfaces

Snow and sun

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

Grooming: backcountry. Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Lightning Trees

Lifts that reach the top: Dreamcatcher (skiing advanced terrain to get there); Colter Lift (skiing expert terrain to get there).

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

  1. Ride Dreamcatcher
  2. Ski Teton Vista Traverse (easy)
  3. Ski unnamed intermediate trail (intermediate)
  4. Ski Happy Hunting Grounds (advanced)
  5. Ski Lightning Trees (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins Middle Earth, Teton Vista Traverse. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Dreamcatcher (6 min), Shoshone (6 min), Huckleberry Conveyor (7 min).

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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.