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Desperado at Castle Mountain Resort

Expert · 712 m long with 421 m of vertical, averaging 31° and 40° at its steepest, facing SE.

40°steepest 50 m
31°average pitch
712 mlength
421 mvertical
2182 mtop elevation
SEfaces

Snow and sun

Desperado is south-east-facing: sun from mid-morning, softens early in spring.

Grooming: backcountry. Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Desperado

Lifts that reach the top: Tamarack Chair (skiing easy terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 24 minutes, expert skiing needed):

  1. Ride Proposed North Bowl Lift
  2. Ski Skyline Traverse (easy)
  3. Ski Syline Traverse
  4. Ride Tamarack Chair
  5. Ski Easy Ramp (easy)
  6. Ski Skyline Traverse (easy)
  7. Ski Desperado (expert)

Where it ends

Joins Clinch Traverse. Nearest lifts from the bottom: T-Rex T-Bar (7 min), Huckleberry Triple Chair (7 min), Sundance Triple Chair (7 min).

See Desperado on the 3D mapAll runs at Castle 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.