Big Hourglass is a permanently closed area on the skier's left side of lower Third Bowl sometimes used as freeride competition venue.
Freeride Skiing Extreme
You'll see Big Hourglass as you traverse back from Lower Third Bowl toward Phoenix Bowl along the Third Bowl / Phoenix Exit to East River Express. You pass above Big Hourglass in Low Exit and along Magic Carpet. It is a permanently closed area that is rarely used as a freeride venue, only on good snow years, for the Crested Butte Extremes event. It is full of pillows and mandatory-air exits with close out cliffs in the 25-50 foot range. The smallest choke through Big Hourglass is only a few feet but surrounded by exposure.
Extreme
Extreme skiing terrain above 45 degrees. These routes are reserved for experienced experts.
In the high mountains or remote conditions, all individuals must be completely autonomous in every situation.
61 m away
Low Exit is a small bowl under High Exit where Lower Third Bowl entrance from Phoenix Bowl joins Lower Third Bowl via Solar Junkyard / Magic Carpet and you can head back into Phoenix Bowl.
Difficult Freeride Skiing
79 m away
Solar Junkyard and Magic Carpet form the skier's left hand side of Third Bowl after Solar Plexus and High Exit are joined by the Lower Third Bowl entrance from Phoenix Bowl.
Severe Freeride Skiing
82 m away
Steep tree chutes with larger cliffs and lines
Extreme Freeride Skiing
203 m away
High Exit has some steep, fun, gladed skiing along the skier's left hand side of Third Bowl as it is joined by the Lower Third Bowl Entrance from Phoenix Bowl.
Extreme Freeride Skiing
208 m away
Smuggler's Knob is the skier's right hand rope line area on a little bench under Good Luck Glades as it falls through steep, fun terrain into Lower Third Bowl.
Difficult Freeride Skiing
212 m away
Very steep, rocky bowl with tricky chutes and large airs.
Extreme Freeride Skiing
227 m away
Leaning Tree Chute is an awesome, steep chute on the skier's right side of Dead End Chutes.
Severe Freeride Skiing
244 m away
Big Tree Chute is the lowest skier's right hand boundary of Third Bowl through a natural chute between trees and rocks.
Severe Freeride Skiing
249 m away
Solar Plexus can be a pillow smashers dream over large and medium pillows if the conditions are right and it's not too sun baked.
Severe Freeride Skiing
276 m away
Steep chutes that end in large cliffs at the bottom of the North Face.
Extreme Freeride Skiing
80 routes · Freeride Skiing