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Crested Butte, USA

Introduction

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.  DC Shoe Co recently funded their terrain park and it is improving every year, 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!

New for season

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.

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