[2] Crystal Mountain is accessible from Enumclaw, by driving to the Sunrise entrance of Mount Rainier National Park, past the small town of Greenwater.

The main summit of Crystal, also called Silver King, is 7,002 ft (2,134 m) (NAVD88 elevation) and is the highest land in a 5-mile (8 km) radius.

[13] Back from the Olympics and the World Cup tour, local Judy Nagel won the women's slalom and combined titles at age sixteen.

[14] Five years earlier, her father Jack Nagel (1926–2004)[15] and the racing school at Crystal were featured in Sports Illustrated, with her older sister Cathy, then fourteen, on the cover.

[18] Two weeks after the 1972 Olympics, Crystal hosted the World Cup tour in late February 1972 with two downhills for both men and women, with the start above Campbell Basin.

Newly-crowned Olympic downhill champion Bernhard Russi of Switzerland won the Saturday race[20] and took second on Sunday.

[25] Washington's first high-speed detachable quad chairlift, the Rainier Express was installed in the summer of 1988, replacing the original chair 2.

[26] A fixed grip quad, Midway Shuttle, was added to connect the base area with Rainier Express.

[27] These upgrades were funded with money from investors, who in return would get future discounts on lift tickets and season passes.

[28] In the mid-1990s, Crystal Mountain became deeply in debt and was unable to pay for further important improvements such as new lifts and lodges.

Boyne also made other improvements such as a new rental facility, paved parking lots, and five new Bombardier snowcat grooming machines.

[citation needed] The Green Valley double chairlift was replaced with a high-speed quad in the summer of 2000, constructed by Doppelmayr.

A Skytrac double chairlift was built quickly to replace High Campbell, renamed Chair 6,.

Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest Supervisor, selected Alternative Six with modifications from the Final Environmental Impact Statement.