4 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
Upper Parachute
Crested Butte
Salida
Upper Parachute is the central entrance into Third Bowl, with big pillows or mandatory turns around them through the trees.
Freeride Skiing Difficult
- Distance
- 134 m
- Ascent
- 0 m
- Descent
- 85 m
- Low Point
- 3.3 km
- High Point
- 3.4 km
- Gradient
- 35˚
Upper Parachute starts a little gnarly looking with big pillows and tight turns around them through trees right off the top of Third Bowl (think center-right from the top of Third Bowl). If you can make it through them you'll have a tight tree chute that benches out as you are joined by Close Call on your left and Mushroom Cliffs Bowl on your right. You can continue down Lower Parachute straight ahead or traverse right for Good Luck Glades; if you head left you can catch some of Solar Plexus and hit Low Exit if you want to get back into Phoenix 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
6 m away
Mushroom Cliffs Bowl
Mushroom Cliffs Bowl has playful pillows and steep trees on the skier's right hand boundary of Third Bowl
Difficult Freeride Skiing
- Distance
- 202 m
- Ascent
- 0 m
- Descent
- 84 m
34 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
123 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
134 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
134 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
198 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
288 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