Mount Ellis Ascent

Name: Mount Ellis Ascent
Rating: 4.5

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4.0 mile 6.4 kilometer point to point
Ascent
Intermediate

Elevation

Ascent: 2,894' 882 m
Descent: -14' -4 m
High: 8,305' 2,531 m
Low: 5,414' 1,650 m

Grade

Avg Slope: 14% (8°)
Max Slope: 51% (27°)

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Popular ski lines nearby

Sunrise as seen from the summit of lil ellis.

Little Ellis SE Meadow

0.6 mi 0.9 km • -395 ft Descent • -120.3 m Descent

Singletrack Bozeman, MT

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Dirty Little Secret

0.5 mi 0.9 km • -933 ft Descent • -284.48 m Descent

Singletrack Bozeman, MT

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Looking from near the top, down the ridge run. Not Lick Creek proper.

Lick Creek Descent

0.5 mi 0.8 km • -509 ft Descent • -155.01 m Descent

Singletrack Bozeman, MT

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Looking up at the shoulder of Elephant and Blackmore

Alex Lowe Basin

0.3 mi 0.5 km • -431 ft Descent • -131.42 m Descent

Singletrack Bozeman, MT

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Bradley's Meadow

0.3 mi 0.4 km • -387 ft Descent • -118.02 m Descent

Singletrack Bozeman, MT

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Type: Backcountry or Sidecountry

Description

A local favorite loved for its closeness to town, ease of access, and counter-clockwise loop that separates uphill and downhill traffic.

Park at the New World Gulch trailhead and proceed up the obvious trail along the creek. When you come to the first fork of two watersheds follow the trail skiier's right up the creek bed. Unless you arrive very early in the morning, there will almost certainly be a skin track already in.

Make your way until you come to a large-ish meadow and again follow the skin track to the right up and into the woods. Gain the saddle between Mount Ellis and "Little Ellis", enjoy the view down into Bozeman and then follow the ridge skier's left toward the summit of Ellis, picking your stopping point based on where you wish to descend.