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Silver Queen Express lift

This is Crested Butte's front side high speed quad. It primarily services the chutes off International, the Twister run pod, and access to the High lift and Paradise Bowl, but also provides access to East River and Teocalli as well as the North Face through Paradise Bowl. The longest chairlift-serviced vertical drop you could take (since the High lift is not a chairlift in my opinion) if you don't use the High lift is to ski from the top of Silver Queen down to the bottom of the East River Express.

I am uploading this walkthrough in stages so that you can see select segments of the lift:

The Bottom station:
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Lower lift line:

Not much on the lower lift line, which is more photographed than the upper lift line. Although it doesn't access beginner terrain, the lower half of Silver Queen passes over beginner and lower intermediate terrain off of Peachtree and Westwall, the learning double and fixed-grip quad respectively. Between the bottom terminal and towers 5 and 6 (where you pass the top of Peachtree) you also pass by Crested Butte's ziplines.

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Signs:
An important message from Bubba, Crested Butte's mascot, is planted on Tower 3:
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He also appears on tower 1 of the Paradise Express lift.
This post has been edited by DonaldMReif: 10 March 2012 - 09:44 AM

Middle lift line

I refer to the stretch of the lift from tower 9 to tower 18 as the middle section of the lift line.

In this stretch, you pass over the Championship trail, then pass over the lower parts of the Hot Rocks and Peel chutes, rising over very rocky and craggy terrain.

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This post has been edited by DonaldMReif: 10 March 2012 - 09:42 AM