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Sunny Glade at Crested Butte Mountain Resort

Expert · 227 m long with 32 m of vertical, averaging 8° and — at its steepest, facing N.

—steepest 50 m
8°average pitch
227 mlength
32 mvertical
3533 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

Sunny Glade 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 Sunny Glade

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 Halfpipe (expert)
  7. Ski Sunny Glade (expert)

Where it ends

Joins Halfpipe, Headwall Glades, Headwall Upper Triangle, Figure 11 Chutes. Nearest lifts from the bottom: North Face Lift (3 min), Paradise Express Lift (6 min), Teocalli Lift (7 min).

See Sunny Glade 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.