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Painter Boy

Green Crested Butte, CO

Steepest pitch14°
Vertical297 ft
Length1,708 ft
Average pitch10°
FacesS
Top10,146 ft

Painter Boy drops 297 vertical feet over 1,708 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 14° about 280 feet below the top. That's steeper than 51% of the 3,109 green runs we've measured in North America, and the 218th steepest of 227 named runs at Crested Butte. It faces south.

How well Painter Boy holds snow

Snow preservationPoor

Facing south at an average 10°, Painter Boy gets about 121% of the winter sun that flat ground at Crested Butte does, December through March. That's sunnier than 87% of the runs we've measured, and the 4th sunniest named run at Crested Butte. Its top sits at 10,150 feet.

Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.

Painter Boy profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Painter Boy elsewhere

Nearby at Crested Butte

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.