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Pygmy Spear Garden at Crested Butte Mountain Resort

Extreme · 451 m long with 91 m of vertical, averaging 11° and — at its steepest, facing W.

—steepest 50 m
11°average pitch
451 mlength
91 mvertical
3120 mtop elevation
Wfaces

Snow and sun

Pygmy Spear Garden is west-facing: afternoon sun, softens late and can crust as it refreezes.

Grooming: backcountry. Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Pygmy Spear Garden

Lifts that reach the top: Paradise Express Lift (skiing freeride terrain to get there); Silver Queen Express Lift (skiing freeride terrain to get there); North Face Lift (skiing freeride terrain to get there); The High Lift (skiing freeride terrain to get there).

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

  1. Ride Silver Queen Express Lift
  2. Ski Silver Queen Road (intermediate)
  3. Ski Monument (advanced)
  4. Ski Ruby Road (intermediate)
  5. Ski Little Holes (extreme)
  6. Ski Lower Forest (extreme)
  7. Ski Lower Peel (extreme)
  8. Ski Banana Glades (extreme)
  9. Ski Total Recall (extreme)
  10. Ski Pygmy Spear Garden (extreme)

Where it ends

Joins Predator, Funnel. Nearest lifts from the bottom: West Wall Lift (5 min), Peachtree Lift (5 min).

See Pygmy Spear Garden 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.