6 m away
Upper Parachute
Upper Parachute is the central entrance into Third Bowl, with big pillows or mandatory turns around them through the trees.
Difficult Freeride Skiing
- Distance
- 134 m
- Ascent
- 0 m
- Descent
- 85 m
Mushroom Cliffs Bowl
Crested Butte
Salida
Mushroom Cliffs Bowl has playful pillows and steep trees on the skier's right hand boundary of Third Bowl
Freeride Skiing Difficult
- Distance
- 202 m
- Ascent
- 0 m
- Descent
- 84 m
- Low Point
- 3.3 km
- High Point
- 3.4 km
- Gradient
- 35˚
Mushroom Cliffs Bowl is the skier's right edge of upper Third Bowl accessed via a hairy traverse that winds through trees from the top of Third Bowl. Take your time on this traverse as a couple hop turns may be necessary. You can find pillows on your left in the trees or keep it on your feet in the natural drainage. As the bowl naturally takes you left towards the bottom of Upper Parachute and Close Call, you'll have the option to head right and traverse into Good Luck Glades, continue down the fall line into Lower Parachute, or head left to parts of Solar Plexus. All options can still catch Low Exit back into Phoenix or into Lower Third Bowl.
Difficulty
Difficult
Serious gradient of 30-38 degrees where a real risk of slipping exists.
Remoteness
Little chance of being seen or helped in case of an accident.
Features
- Trees
- Cliffs
- Walk Required
Similar routes nearby
10 m away
Close Call
Close Call is the left hand entrance of Third Bowl with demanding, tight, tree chutes through rocks that open up to a fun pitch.
Severe Freeride Skiing
- Distance
- 192 m
- Ascent
- 0 m
- Descent
- 87 m
37 m away
Lookout
A chute below huge cliffs that descend into the top of Phoenix Bowl; when open, the upper entrance is only for people who like mandatory 10 foot air.
Extreme Freeride Skiing
- Distance
- 465 m
- Ascent
- 64 m
- Descent
- 130 m
122 m away
Solar Plexus
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
- Distance
- 239 m
- Ascent
- 0 m
- Descent
- 122 m
130 m away
Good Luck Glades
Good Luck Glades is the skier's right hand side of Third Bowl after the top pitches bench out above Lower Parachute and Solar Plexus.
Difficult Freeride Skiing
- Distance
- 201 m
- Ascent
- 0 m
- Descent
- 105 m
130 m away
Lower Parachute
Lower Parachute is the continuation of Upper Parachute through the main gut of Third with awesome tree chutes and pillows to play around with.
Severe Freeride Skiing
- Distance
- 177 m
- Ascent
- 0 m
- Descent
- 106 m
159 m away
Moosehead
Very steep, rocky bowl with tricky chutes and large airs.
Extreme Freeride Skiing
- Distance
- 146 m
- Ascent
- 1 m
- Descent
- 86 m
169 m away
High Exit
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
- Distance
- 145 m
- Ascent
- 0 m
- Descent
- 105 m
201 m away
East LA / Pasta Bowl
A wide bowl that begins with large cliffs in the hike to terrain skier's right of Spellbound Bowl.
Severe Freeride Skiing
- Distance
- 256 m
- Ascent
- 0 m
- Descent
- 106 m
285 m away
Smuggler's Knob
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
- Distance
- 164 m
- Ascent
- 0 m
- Descent
- 59 m
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Guidebooks in this area
80 routes · Freeride Skiing