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Morning Woods at Crested Butte Mountain Resort

Expert · 647 m long with 87 m of vertical, averaging 8° and — at its steepest, facing SE.

—steepest 50 m
8°average pitch
647 mlength
87 mvertical
3491 mtop elevation
SEfaces

Snow and sun

Morning Woods is south-east-facing: sun from mid-morning, softens early in spring.

Grooming: backcountry. Tree skiing (gladed). Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Morning Woods

Lifts that reach the top: The High Lift (skiing expert terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 8 minutes, expert skiing needed):

  1. Ride Silver Queen Express Lift
  2. Ski Silver Queen Road (intermediate)
  3. Ski unnamed intermediate trail (intermediate)
  4. Ride The High Lift
  5. Ski Headwall Ridge Traverse (expert)
  6. Ski Solar Glaze (expert)
  7. Ski Morning Woods (expert)

Where it ends

Joins Headwall Ridge Traverse, Solar Glaze, Wolf's Lair, Teo Tongue.

See Morning Woods 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.