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Horseshoe Springs at Crested Butte Mountain Resort

Advanced · 1108 m long with 112 m of vertical, averaging 11° and 33° at its steepest, facing N.

33°steepest 50 m
11°average pitch
1108 mlength
112 mvertical
3249 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

Horseshoe Springs 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 Springs

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, advanced 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 Yellow Brick Road (easy)
  6. Ski Horseshoe Springs (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins Bubba's Shortcut. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Paradise Express Lift (3 min), Teocalli Lift (3 min), Painter Boy Lift (4 min).

See Horseshoe Springs 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.