If you're on an upland site, it's probably white spruce. Norway spruce and Colorado blue spruce. Mostly a family of the northern hemisphere, the Pinaceae have 9 genera and about 210 species. The genus Picea is shown on this page. They are sharp, making them uncomfortable to handle without gloves.
Needles sometimes have a bluish cast similar to Colorado blue spruce.
Recent TWIG growth is hairless. The scaly BARK is light gray or brown. It rarely occurs as the dominant tree in a forest stand, except in plantations . Recent TWIG growth often has small, fine hairs. These hairs tend to rub off by mid-winter.