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Columbine Hill at Crested Butte Mountain Resort

Intermediate · 1337 m long with 198 m of vertical, averaging 8° and 20° at its steepest, facing SW.

20°steepest 50 m
8°average pitch
1337 mlength
198 mvertical
3091 mtop elevation
SWfaces

Snow and sun

Columbine Hill is south-west-facing: warm afternoon sun, softens and refreezes the most after the sunniest aspect.

How to get to Columbine Hill

Lifts that reach the top: Painter Boy Lift (skiing novice terrain to get there); Gold Link LIft (skiing novice terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 14 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Prospect Lift
  2. Ski Ten Peaks Progression Park
  3. Ski Painter Boy (easy)
  4. Ski Splains Gulch (easy)
  5. Ride Painter Boy Lift
  6. Ski Columbine Hill (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins Warming House Hill. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Red Lady Express Lift (1 min), unnamed magic carpet (1 min), Silver Queen Express Lift (1 min).

See Columbine Hill on the 3D mapAll runs at Crested Butte 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.