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Little Dipper at Shames Mountain Ski Area

Easy · 344 m long with 76 m of vertical, averaging 12° and 16° at its steepest, facing SE.

16°steepest 50 m
12°average pitch
344 mlength
76 mvertical
939 mtop elevation
SEfaces

Snow and sun

Little Dipper is south-east-facing: sun from mid-morning, softens early in spring.

How to get to Little Dipper

Lifts that reach the top: Blue Chair (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Red T-Bar (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 13 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Blue Chair
  2. Ski Sternwheeler (easy)
  3. Ski Panhandler (intermediate)
  4. Ski Little Dipper (easy)

Where it ends

Joins Panhandler, Boundary Trail. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Blue Chair (2 min), Handle Tow (3 min).

See Little Dipper on the 3D mapAll runs at Shames Mountain Ski Area
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.