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Southern Cross at Mt Hotham Alpine Resort

Advanced · 150 m long with 67 m of vertical, averaging 24° and 30° at its steepest, facing E.

30°steepest 50 m
24°average pitch
150 mlength
67 mvertical
1659 mtop elevation
Efaces

Snow and sun

Southern Cross is west-facing: afternoon sun, softens late and can crust as it refreezes.

How to get to Southern Cross

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 8 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Heavenly Valley
  2. Ski unnamed intermediate trail (intermediate)
  3. Ski Lower Imagine (intermediate)
  4. Ski unnamed intermediate trail (intermediate)
  5. Ski Southern Cross (advanced)

Where it ends

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

See Southern Cross 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.