High Exit

Double black Crested Butte, CO

Steepest pitch49°

Vertical175 ft

Length—

Average pitch39°

FacesNE

Top10,746 ft

High Exit drops 175 vertical feet over feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 49°. That's steeper than 96% of the 2,251 double black runs we've measured in North America, and the 6th steepest of 227 named runs at Crested Butte. It faces northeast.

Where it is on the mountain

Runs like High Exit elsewhere

Center Pocket Wolf Creek · 49° · 164 ft vertical
Knife Ridge Gully #2 Wolf Creek · 49° · 241 ft vertical
Big Cornice Wolf Creek · 49° · 224 ft vertical
Marenka Alpine Meadows · 49° · 182 ft vertical

Nearby at Crested Butte

Moosehead Double black · 52°
Phoenix Bowl Double black · 36°
Lower Third Bowl Double black · 42°
Third Bowl Double black · 45°
Phoenix Chutes Double black · 45°
Good Luck Glades Double black · 50°

Measured by ZRankings from 1-meter USGS lidar. Steepest pitch is the steepest stretch of about 50 vertical feet along the skiable line. Run lines come from OpenStreetMap and can sit a little off the skied path.