Chicken Chute at Montana Snowbowl
Advanced · 567 m long with 226 m of vertical, averaging 22° and 28° at its steepest, facing SW.
28°steepest 50 m
22°average pitch
567 mlength
226 mvertical
1957 mtop elevation
SWfaces
Snow and sun
Chicken Chute is south-west-facing: warm afternoon sun, softens and refreezes the most after the sunniest aspect.
How to get to Chicken Chute
Lifts that reach the top: LaVelle Creek Chair (skiing advanced terrain to get there).
From the base area (about 21 minutes, advanced skiing needed):
- Ride Grizzly Chair
- Ski Upper Second Thought (easy)
- Ski Point Six Road (easy)
- Ski Mission Magic (intermediate)
- Ski Point Six Road (easy)
- Ride LaVelle Creek Chair
- Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
- Ski North Dakota Downhill (intermediate)
- Ski East Bowls (advanced)
- Ski unnamed advanced trail (advanced)
- Ski Chicken Chute (advanced)
Where it ends
Joins West Ridge, Il Cesso, Bowl Out Run. Nearest lifts from the bottom: unnamed rope tow (3 min), Grizzly Chair (3 min), Sunrise (4 min).
See Chicken Chute on the 3D mapAll runs at Montana SnowbowlMeasured 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.