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Sylvanite at Crested Butte Mountain Resort

Advanced · 771 m long with 161 m of vertical, averaging 12° and 25° at its steepest, facing NW.

25°steepest 50 m
12°average pitch
771 mlength
161 mvertical
3102 mtop elevation
NWfaces

Snow and sun

Sylvanite is poleward-facing: least winter sun, holds cold powder longest, can stay firm or icy.

How to get to Sylvanite

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

From the base area (about 11 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Silver Queen Express Lift
  2. Ski Silver Queen Road (intermediate)
  3. Ski Upper Ruby Chief (intermediate)
  4. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  5. Ski Yellow Brick Road (easy)
  6. Ski unnamed easy trail (easy)
  7. Ski Sylvanite (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins Aspen Park Road. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Silver Queen Express Lift (3 min), Red Lady Express Lift (3 min).

See Sylvanite 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.