Monday, March 16, 2009

Backcountry Skiing Broken Top Mountain

Set in the 3 sister wilderness, Broken Top sets itself aside from the aesthetically pleasing North, Middle and South sister by its gnarly peaks. Topping in elevation around 10,000 ft hundreds of years ago, the glacier had eroded to show its volcanic crater. With this crater carved out, skiable terrain is present through the void. With skiable vert around 3600ft, runs seem endless and fluid. Some facings on the slope can reach up to 55 degrees which makes degree of difficulty quite high. With weather deciding the out come of this trip, skiing here could be euphoric.

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