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Black Snake at Mt Hotham Alpine Resort

Advanced · 199 m long with 81 m of vertical, averaging 22° and 26° at its steepest, facing SE.

26°steepest 50 m
22°average pitch
199 mlength
81 mvertical
1702 mtop elevation
SEfaces

Snow and sun

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

Grooming: classic.

How to get to Black Snake

Lifts that reach the top: Heavenly Valley (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Keogh's (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Gotcha (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 7 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Heavenly Valley
  2. Ski unnamed intermediate trail (intermediate)
  3. Ski Black Snake (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins unnamed intermediate trail, unnamed advanced trail, Snake Gulley, Blue Snake. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Heavenly Valley (1 min), Village (2 min), Blue Ribbon (4 min).

See Black Snake on the 3D mapAll runs at Mt Hotham Alpine 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.