Crabbe Mountain
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Crabbe Mountain is a Canadian
Canada
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 alpine ski hill in New Brunswick
New Brunswick
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New Brunswick's highest vertical at 853 feet offers challenging terrain for skiers of all abilities. Crabbe Mountain has a wide-open beginner area with a pony lift for those just starting out. There's a wide variety of groomed, ungroomed, cruising trails and steep pitches. Crabbe offers many woods/glades runs, and they have some features such as tree rails, rock jumps and northshores. Crabbe also has three terrain parks. They have features such as jumps, hip transfers, spine transfers and rails and is one of the best terrain parks in the Maritimes.

Crabbe Mountain is located in Central Hainesville, 50 km northwest of Fredericton
Fredericton, New Brunswick
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Trails

Trail Difficulty
Beginner Hill
Dave's Dream
Upper Dave's Dream
Greg's Way
Diddle Daddle
Diddle Daddle Glades
Sun Valley Glades
The Glades
Little brave
War Dance
Pole Line
Hume's Flume
Flume Chute
Whopper
King's Horn
Chair Line
Elgee's Bumps
Norm's Nightmare
Hot Dog
Tippy Canoe
Herald's Fun Run
Pug's powder
Steve's Drive-thru
Little Dodgem Glades
Dineen's Ravine


Crabbe also features 30 kilometres, 18+ miles of cross country skiing trails

Race Club

Crabbe Mountain also has a very successful race club, it does extremely well in the atlantic circuit and has also won a few major competitions including a gold in Super G
Super Giant Slalom skiing
The Super Giant Slalom is an Alpine skiing discipline. It is usually referred to as Super G and is a "speed" event, along with the faster Downhill event; the Giant Slalom and Slalom events are known as the "technical" disciplines.-History:...

 the Canadian nationals. They also have several athletes participating in the Canada Games 2011.

Woods Trails

Crabbe Mountain has some easy and some challenging woods trails. One of the most common glades run is Diddle Daddle which has wallrides, bumps and a drop at the end. On the other side of the mountain there is some northshores and rock jumps.

Other Services

The Crabbe Mountain base lodge offers a lounge, cafeteria, retail and rental shop. Ski and board lessons are available and the mountain is patrolled by the Canadian Ski Patrol.
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