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Solar Junkyard at Crested Butte Mountain Resort

Expert · 496 m long with 152 m of vertical, averaging 17° and — at its steepest, facing E.

—steepest 50 m
17°average pitch
496 mlength
152 mvertical
3247 mtop elevation
Efaces

Snow and sun

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

Grooming: backcountry. Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Solar Junkyard

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

From the base area (about 13 minutes, expert skiing needed):

  1. Ride Silver Queen Express Lift
  2. Ski Silver Queen Road (intermediate)
  3. Ski Paradise Bowl (intermediate)
  4. Ride North Face Lift
  5. Ski Schofield Road (intermediate)
  6. Ski Spellbound Traverse (expert)
  7. Ski High Nowhere (expert)
  8. Ski Third Bowl (expert)
  9. Ski Solar Plexus (expert)
  10. Ski Solar Junkyard (expert)

Where it ends

Joins Lower Third Bowl. Nearest lifts from the bottom: East River Express Lift (6 min).

See Solar Junkyard 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.