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Spruce Face at Buttermilk

Advanced · 364 m long with 77 m of vertical, averaging 12° and 20° at its steepest, facing NE.

20°steepest 50 m
12°average pitch
364 mlength
77 mvertical
2480 mtop elevation
NEfaces

Snow and sun

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

Grooming: classic+skating.

How to get to Spruce Face

Lifts that reach the top: unnamed rope tow (skiing advanced terrain to get there); Summit Express (skiing advanced terrain to get there); Tiehack Express (skiing advanced terrain to get there); West Buttermilk Express (skiing advanced terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 9 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Summit Express
  2. Ski No Problem (intermediate)
  3. Ski Ridge Trail (intermediate)
  4. Ski Lover's Lane (intermediate)
  5. Ski Midway Ave (intermediate)
  6. Ski Homestead Road (easy)
  7. Ski Baby Doe (intermediate)
  8. Ski Jacob's Ladder (advanced)
  9. Ski Spruce (advanced)
  10. Ski Spruce Face (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins Superpipe. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Summit Express (1 min), Panda Peak (1 min), unnamed magic carpet (2 min).

See Spruce Face on the 3D mapAll runs at Buttermilk
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.