Crested Butte Mountain Resort
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Crested Butte in 1988
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| Location | Gunnison County, Colorado, USA |
| Nearest city | Crested Butte, Colorado |
| Coordinates | 38°53′59″N 106°57′54″W / 38.89972°N 106.96500°W |
| Top elevation | 12,170 feet (3,710 m) |
| Base elevation | 9,115 feet (2,778 m) |
| Skiable area | 1,547 acres (6.26 km2) |
| Runs | 121 23% beginner 57% intermediate 20% advanced/expert |
| Longest run | 2.6 miles (4.2 km); Peak to Treasury |
| Lift system | 16 (4 high-speed quad chairs, 2 quad chair, 2 triple chairs, 3 double chairs, 3 surface lifts, 2 Magic Carpets) |
| Terrain parks | 2 |
| Snowfall | 300 in (7.6 m) per year |
| Snowmaking | 282 acres (1.14 km2) |
| Website | http://www.skicb.com |
Crested Butte Mountain Resort is a ski resort located at Mount Crested Butte in Gunnison County, Colorado, United States.
Crested Butte Mountain Resort opened in 1960 when two men - Fred Rice and Dick Eflin - purchased a ranch on Mt. Crested Butte. An operating permit enabling the resort to be built was approved by the United States Forest Service the following year. The resort struggled on for its first ten years. Some of the first lifts included a t-bar at the base area.
In 1963, Crested Butte constructed a top-to-bottom gondola from the base area to near where the bottom of the High Lift is today. The resort was the second resort to open a gondola in Colorado, after Vail Ski Resort opened theirs in 1962. Constructed by Carlevaro-Savio, the three-person Silver Queen Gondola was notorious for being cramped and the cabins were known to have frequent collisions. The gondola lasted until 1972, when a bubble double chairlift replaced it. Other opening lifts included a Doppelmayr T-Bar that serviced the training hill on Buckley.
Riblet constructed a double chairlift called Twister in 1969 to supplement the Silver Queen Gondola. The lift services expert and advanced trails on the west slope of the mountain, but with the upgrading of other lifts now operates sporadically.
In 1972, a bubble double replaced the old gondola, and provided main access out of the base area for the next twenty years. Another double chairlift, Peachtree, was built at the base area to service a set of learning trails between Silver Queen and the T-Bar area. Peachtree still operates today.
In 1979, Riblet constructed the Teocalli double chairlift on the north side of the mountain, providing access to some intermediate trails, and double chairlifts were also built servicing the Paradise Bowl, which opened intermediate trails to the east of Twister as well as the East River area below that.
In 1982, Poma constructed a triple chairlift running out of the base area called the Keystone lift, servicing beginner and low intermediate trails on the lower slopes of the mountain. The following year, they expanded the mountain by constructing two additional triple chairlifts, Gold Link and Painter Boy, servicing beginner and intermediate terrain to the north of the main mountain. In 1987, Poma constructed a platter lift servicing the North Face chutes above East River.
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