The place
The Aerial Tram climbs 1,260 m from Teton Village to the top of Rendezvous Mountain, the longest continuous vertical of any big American resort. Under its top station is Corbet's Couloir, the most famous entrance in skiing: a drop into a narrow chute.
Off-piste Past the resort's gates nothing is controlled or patrolled: avalanche terrain, your own risk.
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The lines
Every line here, with how hard it is.
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Corbet's Couloir
■■■■■Named for the guide Barry Corbet, who looked at it and said someone would ski it someday; patroller Lonnie Ball did, in 1967.
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The S&S Couloir
■■■■■Corbet's harder neighbour: a 15 to 20 ft mandatory air into a narrower slot, named for Charlie Sands and John Simms, the patrollers who first skied it, and open only with ski patrol's say-so.
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Rendezvous Bowl to the Village
■■■■■Off the tram into 200 m of open 30° bowl under the summit, wind-buffed or deep, then the Rendezvous Trail and the South Pass Traverse to Teton Village: the tram's whole 1,200 m without the couloirs.
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Cheyenne Bowl
■■■■■The next bowl down from Rendezvous, under the Sublette chair: 150 m of steep, south-facing bowl, in by Central Chute or Wally World from Rendezvous Bowl's foot.
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Alta Chute 1
■■■■■Under the Sublette chair and in front of everyone on it: the first of three short, tree-lined chutes at nearly 40°, reached from Sublette's top by Dog Face.
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Tower Three Chute
■■■■■Off the Thunder chair, north-facing and sheltered by trees: a 250 m chute at 37° that keeps its snow longer than anything near it.
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North Hoback
■■■■■The longest fall line inside the ropes: from the Rendezvous Trail, 640 m without a break at about 30°, wide open and facing south-east, to the Union Pass traverse.
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Greybull
■■■■■Casper Bowl's Shot 10, a short bootpack up the White Spider from the gondola's top: a sheer 40° chute between craggy walls.
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Rock Springs
■■■■■Most people's first step through Jackson's gates: no hike, a canyon of benches, boulders and cliff bands, 650 m down to the Union Pass traverse.
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Spacewalk
■■■■■One of the narrow chutes hidden in the cliff band south of Rendezvous Bowl, out of the gate at its top: miss the entrance and you're on top of a big cliff. 42° for 100 m and a rocky choke, then Rock Springs Canyon.
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Four Pines
■■■■■Half an hour up the Four Pines bootpack from Rock Springs' gate, one of the best backcountry areas off the resort: an open east face at 34° for 500 m, with chutes and cliffs either side.
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Cody Peak's Central Couloir
■■■■■From the top of Cody Peak, up the Cardiac Ridge bootpack from Rendezvous Bowl's top gate: a slot through the rock buttress at over 50°, a choke two ski lengths wide and a 30 to 40 ft air out of the bottom.
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Pucker Face
■■■■■It looks like the easy way off Cody Peak.
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Endless
■■■■■Out of gate 6 at the top of Casper Bowl into Grand Teton National Park: 600 m of north-facing couloir at 40°, a long terrain trap straight into Granite Creek.
