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Lower Switchback at Stratton Mountain Resort

Advanced · 322 m long with 88 m of vertical, averaging 15° and 19° at its steepest, facing N.

19°steepest 50 m
15°average pitch
322 mlength
88 mvertical
884 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Lower Switchback

Lifts that reach the top: Snow Bowl Express (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Summit Gondola (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Shooting Star (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Ursa Express (skiing advanced terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 10 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Sunrise Express
  2. Ski Lower Middlebrook (easy)
  3. Ride Shooting Star
  4. Ski Janeway Jct. (intermediate)
  5. Ski Get My Drift (intermediate)
  6. Ski Upper Drifter (intermediate)
  7. Ski Interstate (intermediate)
  8. Ski Lower Switchback (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins Flukey's Run, Snow Bowl Alley. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Snow Bowl Express (1 min), American Express (3 min), Summit Gondola (4 min).

See Lower Switchback on the 3D mapAll runs at Stratton Mountain 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.