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Elevator Shaft at Durango Mountain Resort

Advanced · 242 m long with 90 m of vertical, averaging 20° and 36° at its steepest, facing N.

36°steepest 50 m
20°average pitch
242 mlength
90 mvertical
3002 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Elevator Shaft

Lifts that reach the top: Legends Express #8 (skiing advanced terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 29 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Twilight Lift #4
  2. Ski Salvation (intermediate)
  3. Ski unnamed intermediate trail (intermediate)
  4. Ski Peace (intermediate)
  5. Ride Hermosa Park Express #3
  6. Ski Legends (intermediate)
  7. Ski Blackburn's Bash (advanced)
  8. Ride Legends Express #8
  9. Ski BD&M Expressway (intermediate)
  10. Ski Joan's Jubilee (intermediate)
  11. Ski Wapiti (advanced)
  12. Ski Elevator Shaft (advanced)
See Elevator Shaft on the 3D mapAll runs at Durango 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.