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Powder 8 Gully at Crested Butte Mountain Resort

Expert · 408 m long with 122 m of vertical, averaging 17° and — at its steepest, facing N.

—steepest 50 m
17°average pitch
408 mlength
122 mvertical
3541 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

Powder 8 Gully 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 Powder 8 Gully

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

From the base area (about 7 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 Headwall Upper Triangle (expert)
  7. Ski Powder 8 Gully (expert)

Where it ends

Joins Headwall, Headwall Glades. Nearest lifts from the bottom: North Face Lift (3 min), Paradise Express Lift (6 min), Teocalli Lift (7 min).

See Powder 8 Gully 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.