Snow Heavy Metal at Vail Ski Resort
Advanced · 759 m long with 227 m of vertical, averaging 17° and 30° at its steepest, facing NE.
30°steepest 50 m
17°average pitch
759 mlength
227 mvertical
3285 mtop elevation
NEfaces
Snow and sun
Heavy Metal is poleward-facing: least winter sun, holds cold powder longest, can stay firm or icy.
How to get to Heavy Metal
No lift-served path appears in the map data: it may be hike-to, gated, or mapped separately.
Where it ends
Joins Cloud 9 - Middle. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Pete's Express Lift (1 min), Tea Cup Express Lift (4 min), Skyline Express Lift (4 min).
See Heavy Metal on the 3D mapAll runs at Vail Ski ResortMeasured 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.