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Blazing Saddle at Great Divide Snowsports

Intermediate · 73 m long with 23 m of vertical, averaging 18° and 18° at its steepest, facing N.

18°steepest 50 m
18°average pitch
73 mlength
23 mvertical
1928 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

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

How to get to Blazing Saddle

Lifts that reach the top: Good Luck (skiing intermediate 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 6 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Wild West
  2. Ski Northwest Traverse (intermediate)
  3. Ski Trapper (intermediate)
  4. Ski Northwest Passage (intermediate)
  5. Ski Blazing Saddle (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins Kickapoo, Trail Drive. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Wild West (3 min).

See Blazing Saddle 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.