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Lower Crystal at Crested Butte Mountain Resort

Advanced · 162 m long with 36 m of vertical, averaging 12° and 14° at its steepest, facing W.

14°steepest 50 m
12°average pitch
162 mlength
36 mvertical
3132 mtop elevation
Wfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Lower Crystal

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 10 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 Lower Crystal (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins unnamed easy trail.

See Lower Crystal 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.