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Lower Cirque at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort

Expert · 290 m long with 114 m of vertical, averaging 21° and 32° at its steepest, facing E.

32°steepest 50 m
21°average pitch
290 mlength
114 mvertical
3031 mtop elevation
Efaces

Snow and sun

Lower Cirque is east-facing: morning sun, softens first and shades by early afternoon.

Grooming: backcountry. Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Lower Cirque

Lifts that reach the top: Aerial Tram (skiing advanced terrain to get there); Little Cloud (skiing advanced terrain to get there); Mineral Basin (skiing advanced terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 14 minutes, expert skiing needed):

  1. Ride Aerial Tram
  2. Ski Cirque Trail (intermediate)
  3. Ski unnamed advanced trail (advanced)
  4. Ski Cirque Traverse (advanced)
  5. Ski Lower Cirque (expert)

Where it ends

Joins Primrose Split, Upper Silver Fox, Lower Primrose Path, Hubba Bubba. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Peruvian (4 min), Chickadee Lift (5 min), Aerial Tram (5 min).

See Lower Cirque on the 3D mapAll runs at Snowbird Ski and Summer 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.