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Lower Mile Sweep at Swain Ski & Snowboard Resort

Easy · 386 m long with 62 m of vertical, averaging 9° and 12° at its steepest, facing N.

12°steepest 50 m
average pitch
386 mlength
62 mvertical
464 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Lower Mile Sweep

Lifts that reach the top: Quad 3 (skiing easy terrain to get there); Double Chair (skiing easy terrain to get there); Quad 1 (skiing easy terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 5 minutes, easy skiing needed):

  1. Ride Quad 1
  2. Ski unnamed connector
  3. Ski Upper Mile Sweep (easy)
  4. Ski Black Forest (easy)
  5. Ski Promenade (easy)
  6. Ski Upper Mile Sweep (easy)
  7. Ski Lower Mile Sweep (easy)

Where it ends

Joins Pines, Shadow Mountain, unnamed connector, Clark, Rattler. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Quad 3 (1 min), Double Chair (1 min).

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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.