Is there any record of people skiing the gnarly chutes along I-70 into copper?

thankagaperThe Sky Chutes .
Covid cray cray, I solo'd the $

thankagaperBut half way to copper there are ice climbing spots, that aren't skiable , your not considering those...?
Either way, around half way from Frisco to copper, there is a spendable 100' cliff, if the conditions are right.
I'm gonna drop a secret 100' near Abasin, with a couple more spring storms!

WabbleDeeHere’s the FATMAP of the region I’m talking about. There’s definitely a few of those without ice that have a few mandatory airs but nothing too nuts. We talking about the same stuff?

mcswizzleSky chutes is a different zone, not above I 70. There are a number of lines that have been skied in Tenmile canyon proper, many involve ski mountaineering techniques since there are frozen waterfalls (some fine ice climbing early season up there), etc. Not really freeride terrain, but yeah definitely people ski them, although not that regularly with the exception of the lines off Mt victoria and Mt royal. Tricky to line up timing and pretty serious terrain dropping towards I70 from the alpine. You can maybe search up peak 1 gulley (west face), big mike gulley, big tim - a few of these are in guidebooks. Inspiring test pieces for summit county ski mountaineering, always a pleasure to look up there and dream of dropping in!

SchizoSkierId imagine people just take the trail that goes over peak one and just drop in on the ridge somewhere. That trail seems kinda hard for winter tho, even in summer it’s like a steep 3 hour hike just to peak 1

SchizoSkierId imagine people just take the trail that goes over peak one and just drop in on the ridge somewhere. That trail seems kinda hard for winter tho, even in summer it’s like a steep 3 hour hike just to peak 1

WabbleDeeYa dude but imagine the footage if you stomp one of the gnarly lines and don’t end up on Summit Daily?

WabbleDeeHere’s the FATMAP of the region I’m talking about. There’s definitely a few of those without ice that have a few mandatory airs but nothing too nuts. We talking about the same stuff?

hoodratz47I thought the sky shutes were some guys private property. The rumor I was keen to when I lived in Leadville was youd be arrested or shot if you tried them

WabbleDeeI drive past em so often and have been thinking some of them could be doable. I am not sure I have the balls to hit any of them, but surely some crazy fucker has hit these?

There’s at least 2 that could be done, and 3-4 that would be insanely gnarly but doable. The biggest issues seem to be 1) getting to them 2) if you fall you die and 3) avalanche risk.

any and all info someone has on this would be great. Rumors, videos, anything.

edit: by into copper I mean the cliffs to the left of you if you’re going south to copper. They aren’t “in” copper.

**This thread was edited on Apr 6th 2023 at 10:47:44pm

CT_CREWLots of skiable lines in there. all pretty rowdy. Some require rappeling/ice climbing gear, some don't.

best bet is to climb straight up what you wanna ride, with crampons and ice axe

u could traverse over from breck or from frisco, but the ridge traverse is gonna be gnar, and then finding/dropping your line blind takes a lot of balls, and studying terrain/having good photos

also dont expect to "ride" these lines like a ski movie. probly gonna be hop turning mostly