Crested Butte, USA
Crested Butte is one of Colorado's ex-mining haunts and well worth a visit and has recently refurbished the entire base area of the mountain. It has gained a good reputation as a snowboard-friendly resort, but is best known for is its extreme and hard core terrain. Indeed, you could call this place the extreme freerider's heaven in the USA, as it has successfully staged several US Extreme Snowboarding Championships.
Crested Butte easily offers some of the most challenging snowboarding in America. What you get is a serious mountain for serious riders, and not your typical dollar-hungry Colorado destination. If you like your mountain high with steeps, couloirs, trees, major off-piste in big bowls, then Crested Butte is for you. With 85 runs, spread over 1,160 acres, no-one needs to feel left out, on crowd-free slopes, with a good average snow record.
For 2010/11 the resort have relocated the terrain park and are building a new superpipe, but if you don't fancy that, there are endless natural jibs, jumps and fun things to play on all over the mountain.
What's more, if you fancy riding during November (25th until 15th Dec), pre-Christmas, as well as the latter part of April, you can ride for nothing, or put another way, free of charge!
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New for season
2010/11: Improvements include: the debut of the new Gold Link Terrain Park and Superpipe; expanded tree-skiing and riding options in Horseshoe Springs; increased snowmaking capabilities; and $400K in improvements to the Treasury Center base lodge. In addition, CBMR celebrates 50 years of skiing throughout 2010-2011.
10/11: New terrain park & superpipe. Additional gladed runs, expansion of snowmaking and changes to base.
05/06: new quad chair replaces a t-bar. New base village and groomers, and various improvements to the resort in general.
04/05:Under new ownership (they also own Okemo resort). Prospect lift with 3 new trails with 15 acres of intermediate terrain. Magic carpet lengthened for beginers, much improved beginners park.
Resort Statistics
Resort Type:
Alpine
Winter: Nov to April
Summer: None
Lifts
Total Lifts: 14
Chair lifts: 11
Drag lifts: 3
Other lifts: 2 'Magic Carpet'
Max people per hour: 20,310
Board Leashes required: Yes
Mountain
Total pistes/trails: 121
Total ride area: 1167 acres
Longest run: 2.6miles (4.2km)
Top lift: 3707m
Vertical drop: 850m
First lift: 2857m
Piste suitability
Green runs: 23%
Red runs: 57%
Black runs: 20%
Lift Passes
| Low Season | High Season | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | GBP | Average | USD | GBP | Average | |
| Day Pass | 59.00 | 38.96 |
12% |
87.00 | 57.45 |
50% |
| 6-Day Pass | 330.00 | 217.93 |
36% |
498.00 | 328.88 |
78% |
| USD | GBP | Average | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season Pass: | 1,349.00 | 890.88 |
66% |
Lift Passes:
Platinum Season Pass: $1,349
Gold Season Pass: $1,274
Bronze Season Pass: $1,064
Lift times:9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m
Snowfall
Average annual snowfall: 6.1metres
Artificial snowmaking coverage: 90%
Facilities
| USD | GBP | |
|---|---|---|
| Days Rental of Board & Boots: | 29.00 | 19.15 |
| 4hr Group Lesson (full day): | 90.00 | 59.44 |
| 4hr Private Lesson (full day): | 330.00 | 217.93 |
Snowboard Schools:
Private lesson $225for 2hrs. Varrious 2hr group workshops around $80 for beginners to advanced.
Beginners day package inc lift pass & 5hr lesson $115
Snowboard Hire:
Board & boots $23.40 per day. Top demo kit available for $32.40 per day
Night Riding: :
No
Other activities
Heliboarding: :
Not available
Snowmobiles:
Yes
Further information
www.skicb.com/
Email:info@cbmr.com
The dog's balls for backcountry riding, steeps and cliffs, but also a piste-loving carver's destination and good for beginners. Free skiing from 25th Nov until the 15th of Dec. Good and friendly local services.
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ON THE SLOPES: Excellent
OFF THE SLOPES: Great
MONEY WISE: Moderately expensive, on and off the slopes, but very good value.
HALFPIPE:
Yes - 1
TERRAIN PARK:
Yes - 3
BACKCOUNTRY/OFF-PISTE:Yes
TREE RUNS:Yes
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