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Solar Glaze at Crested Butte Mountain Resort

Expert · 278 m long with 44 m of vertical, averaging 9° and — at its steepest, facing E.

—steepest 50 m
9°average pitch
278 mlength
44 mvertical
3529 mtop elevation
Efaces

Snow and sun

Solar Glaze is east-facing: morning sun, softens first and shades by early afternoon.

Grooming: backcountry. Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Solar Glaze

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 Solar Glaze (expert)

Where it ends

Joins Headwall Ridge Traverse, Headwall East Side, Headwall, Morning Woods. Nearest lifts from the bottom: North Face Lift (4 min), Paradise Express Lift (7 min), Teocalli Lift (8 min).

See Solar Glaze 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.