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Mother Nature at Steamboat Ski Resort

Advanced · 229 m long with 102 m of vertical, averaging 24° and 30° at its steepest, facing W.

30°steepest 50 m
24°average pitch
229 mlength
102 mvertical
2500 mtop elevation
Wfaces

Snow and sun

Mother Nature is west-facing: afternoon sun, softens late and can crust as it refreezes.

How to get to Mother Nature

Lifts that reach the top: Thunderhead Express (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Steamboat Gondola (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Burgess Creek (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Elkhead Express (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Four Points (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Sundown Express (skiing intermediate terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 16 minutes, advanced skiing needed):

  1. Ride Steamboat Gondola
  2. Ski Spur Run (easy)
  3. Ski Rudi's Run (intermediate)
  4. Ski Lightning (intermediate)
  5. Ski Why Not Upper (easy)
  6. Ski Vagabond Upper (intermediate)
  7. Ski Betwixt (intermediate)
  8. Ski Mother Nature (advanced)

Where it ends

Joins Lower Concentration, Between. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Bashor (3 min), Greenhorn Ranch Express (3 min), Thunderhead Express (3 min).

See Mother Nature on the 3D mapAll runs at Steamboat Ski 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.