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Hockey Rink at Crested Butte Mountain Resort

Extreme · 662 m long with 121 m of vertical, averaging 10° and — at its steepest, facing W.

—steepest 50 m
10°average pitch
662 mlength
121 mvertical
3148 mtop elevation
Wfaces

Snow and sun

Hockey Rink is west-facing: afternoon sun, softens late and can crust as it refreezes.

Grooming: backcountry. Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Hockey Rink

Lifts that reach the top: Paradise Express Lift (skiing freeride terrain to get there); Silver Queen Express Lift (skiing freeride terrain to get there); North Face Lift (skiing freeride terrain to get there); The High Lift (skiing freeride terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 7 minutes, freeride skiing needed):

  1. Ride Silver Queen Express Lift
  2. Ski Silver Queen Road (intermediate)
  3. Ski Monument (advanced)
  4. Ski Ruby Road (intermediate)
  5. Ski Little Holes (extreme)
  6. Ski Lower Forest (extreme)
  7. Ski Lower Peel (extreme)
  8. Ski Banana (extreme)
  9. Ski Hockey Rink (extreme)

Where it ends

Joins Banana, Funnel. Nearest lifts from the bottom: West Wall Lift (4 min), Peachtree Lift (5 min).

See Hockey Rink 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.