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Keystone Ridge at Crested Butte Mountain Resort

Advanced · 497 m long with 104 m of vertical, averaging 12° and — at its steepest, facing N.

—steepest 50 m
12°average pitch
497 mlength
104 mvertical
3364 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Keystone Ridge

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 5 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Silver Queen Express Lift
  2. Ski Silver Queen Road (intermediate)
  3. Ski Ruby Road (intermediate)
  4. Ski Keystone Ridge (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins Triangle, Robel's, Ruby Road, Keystone, Upper Ruby Chief, unnamed easy trail. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Paradise Express Lift (4 min), Teocalli Lift (4 min), West Wall Lift (6 min).

See Keystone Ridge 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.