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    Solitude chute ID?

    I am not familiar with Solitude, but a friend and I found our way through this chute and I was wondering if it has a name. We spoke with Iceman at lunch right before we went about hiking up the ridge, but didn't get any specifics on the ways down. I will post more pics from the whole trip sometime soon. We were in Utah for 8 days.

    This is where the hike starts. It is the face that you see to your left when riding the Summit Chair. We went to what looked like the highest point on the ridge, where all the other tracks start dropping off the backside towards Brighton


    Unfortunately I did not get a good shot of the whole face at a distance from the lift, but here is what I have. Basically, I think on far lookers right, maybe just outside the pics is Corner Chute. Then moving lookers left is a wider chute that looks like it has no entrance other than huge cliffs at the top. Then the next most obvious one that we did was a little narrower, but accessable from the top through the trees.







    Regardless, it was really fun, and not many people had been in it that day if anyone from the top.

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    Nice work, Yetiman calls it "Ortovox." I'm more of a traverse in at the lowest rockband and snake your line kind of a guy, .

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    Ortavox it is. Skiers left is bombs away. Skiers right is two chutes called double barrels you traverse out right to a hanging pow field or huck big.
    Farther right is dogleg and the wide open bowl is scree or evergreen bowl.
    "When the child was a child it waited patiently for the first snow and it still does"- Van "The Man" Morrison
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    Thanks guys I knew you would have the info. So the blue line is bombs away and the purple lines are double barrels?


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    Yup

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    "When the child was a child it waited patiently for the first snow and it still does"- Van "The Man" Morrison
    "I find I have already had my reward, in the doing of the thing" - Buzz Holmstrom
    "THIS IS WHAT WE DO"-AML -ski on in eternal peace
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    So how do you get into bombs away? Do you have to traverse from the corner chute or is there a line through those cliff bands somewhere above?

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    To get in, I would stand at the top and say 'bombs away' then jump in. Then I'd probably crash into a tree.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobMc
    I'm more of a traverse in at the lowest rockband and snake your line kind of a guy, .
    Always an excellent plan.

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    Exit of Double barrels looks sketchy in that photo ... like it's a good thing that I haven't looked all that hard for their entrance.
    Who cares how the crow flies

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    Quote Originally Posted by crashnburn'd
    To get in, I would stand at the top and say 'bombs away' then jump in. Then I'd probably crash into a tree.
    That would be my plan.

    By the way, markpnc, who's that guy in your avitar?

    dood looks homeless, like he lives in a cardboard box or sumthin.
    Last edited by MARSHALL TUCKER; 02-08-2006 at 11:29 AM.

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    Ortovox? Let me guess....it's a common slide path.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tarkman1
    Ortovox? Let me guess....it's a common slide path.
    Actually it's Latin for "we haven't invented beacons yet".

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    Quote Originally Posted by iceman
    Actually it's Latin for "we haven't invented beacons yet".
    Can you decline it?

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    Dude I took Latin for 8 years, of course i could decline it if it was a verb.

    Pshaw.

    Could I decline it if somebody said, "hey let's ski down here"?

    Hell yes to that too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by iceman
    Dude I took Latin for 8 years, of course i could decline it if it was a verb.
    Don't verbs get conjugated and nouns declined? Did you miss the first year and skip right over to the translation of epics? Dang dude.

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    Amo Amos Amat I am a moron.*

    *Actually it's pretty amazing how stupid I've become over time. I wonder if the process stops.
    Last edited by iceman; 02-08-2006 at 05:41 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Markhpnc
    So how do you get into bombs away? Do you have to traverse from the corner chute or is there a line through those cliff bands somewhere above?
    It has a hidden entrance off of the peak of the ridge. I'd get more descriptive but then I would have to terminate you. Surely Skifishbum knows. Actually, if you ever want to hook up I would be glad to show you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by release
    It has a hidden entrance off of the peak of the ridge. I'd get more descriptive but then I would have to terminate you. Surely Skifishbum knows. Actually, if you ever want to hook up I would be glad to show you.
    I am up for that next time I am out that way.





    Quote Originally Posted by MARSHALL TUCKER
    That would be my plan.

    By the way, markpnc, who's that guy in your avitar?

    dood looks homeless, like he lives in a cardboard box or sumthin.
    Easy there buddy I don't want to have to pull out some of your pics...

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    How late do you think Solitude will be open this year?

    I am schezzzuled to be in Yewtar at the end of April.
    "Have fun, get a flyrod, and give the worm dunkers the finger when you start double hauling." ~Lumpy

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    April 16th, tentative last day of operations. Snowbird it is.

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