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Horseshoe at Crested Butte Mountain Resort

Expert · 595 m long with 83 m of vertical, averaging 13° and 38° at its steepest, facing NE.

38°steepest 50 m
13°average pitch
595 mlength
83 mvertical
3250 mtop elevation
NEfaces

Snow and sun

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

Grooming: backcountry. Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Horseshoe

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

From the base area (about 6 minutes, expert skiing needed):

  1. Ride Silver Queen Express Lift
  2. Ski Silver Queen Road (intermediate)
  3. Ski Upper Ruby Chief (intermediate)
  4. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  5. Ski Horseshoe (expert)

Where it ends

Joins Breakfast Trail, Ruby Steep. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Teocalli Lift (3 min), Paradise Express Lift (3 min), Painter Boy Lift (5 min).

See Horseshoe 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.