Best known for: Being one of the best learning/teaching mountains in the world
Best-kept secret: Powder stashes on black-diamond runs, gladed trails days after a storm; terrain park and halfpipe for advanced snowboarders
Location: Within the White River National Forest, three miles from downtown Aspen, Colo.
Season: Dec. 11, 1999-April 2, 2000
Base elevation: 7,870 ft./2,399 m.
Summit elevation: 9,900 ft./3,018 m.
Vertical rise: 2,030 ft./619 m.
Terrain: 415 acres/166 hectares-43 trails
Longest run: 3 miles/4.8 m
Trails: easiest - 35%; more difficult - 39%; most difficult - 26%; expert - 0%
Annual snowfall: 200 inches/508 cm.
Snowmaking: 108 acres/43.2 hectares
Lifts: 7 total -- 1 high-speed quad chair, 5 double chairs, 1 handle tow
Lift capacity: 7,500 riders/hour
Uncrowded slopes: 4 people per acre/10 people per hectare
Snowboarding terrain: 1 halfpipe, 1 terrain park
Lodging bed base: 112 beds at base of mountain; 14,888 additional beds within 10 miles
Equipment rental: Buttermilk Sports, at the base of the mountain
