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Backyard at Great Divide Snowsports

Easy · 54 m long with 5 m of vertical, averaging 6° and 6° at its steepest, facing SW.

steepest 50 m
average pitch
54 mlength
5 mvertical
1813 mtop elevation
SWfaces

Snow and sun

Backyard is south-west-facing: warm afternoon sun, softens and refreezes the most after the sunniest aspect.

How to get to Backyard

Lifts that reach the top: unnamed rope tow (skiing novice terrain to get there); Meadow Mountain (skiing easy terrain to get there); Good Luck (skiing easy terrain to get there); Mount Belmont (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Wild West (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 2 minutes, easy skiing needed):

  1. Ride unnamed rope tow
  2. Ski Backyard (easy)

Where it ends

Nearest lifts from the bottom: unnamed rope tow (1 min), Meadow Mountain (1 min), Mount Belmont (3 min).

See Backyard on the 3D mapAll runs at Great Divide Snowsports
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.