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This iconic and challenging couloir is for experts only.
Severe Freeride Skiing
- Distance
- 344 m
- Ascent
- 0 m
- Descent
- 227 m
This is one of the best lines in Silver Basin, starting in an open face, funneling through a wide and shallow couloir and opening again to the lower basin.
Freeride Skiing Difficult
This fun line, also known as Crazy 8s or simply Divider Chute (is it divides the upper and lower fields of SE Right), can be tricky to find. The surest way to find it is by hiking Silver King (see description for "The King"). Powder 8s is the first top to bottom couloir on the skier's right of the summit on the Silver Basin side of the peak. For those familiar with the traverse behind the King, leave the traverse and enter Powder 8s at the top. Once at the top, the route is straightforward. This run hardly avalanches due to its shallow angle and thus is almost always laden with snow. This is a great first run to hit after a storm. Advanced intermediates willing to put in the effort to reach the Southback terrain will enjoy this run.
Difficult
Serious gradient of 30-38 degrees where a real risk of slipping exists.
5 m away
This iconic and challenging couloir is for experts only.
Severe Freeride Skiing
12 m away
A steep, rocky face reserved for experienced experts
Extreme Freeride Skiing
18 m away
A steep, rocky face for experienced experts
Extreme Freeride Skiing
77 m away
This popular, wide-open chute is one of the easiest couloirs on the north side of the King.
Difficult Freeride Skiing
114 m away
A steep cliff requiring mandatory air.
Extreme Freeride Skiing
115 m away
This rarely explored, deep couloir is too narrow for most experts. Usually this gully is jumped in competitions.
Extreme Freeride Skiing
120 m away
An open face along the SE side of Silver King ("The King") that leads into glades, chutes and cliffs.
Difficult Freeride Skiing
134 m away
A broad face that ends in four short chutes between Boxcar Cornice and Powder 8s
Difficult Freeride Skiing
165 m away
An often-untracked steep glade in Silver Basin.
Severe Freeride Skiing
168 m away
A narrow, steep couloir on the north side of the King.
Severe Freeride Skiing
13 routes · Freeride Skiing · Ski Touring
14 routes · Freeride Skiing · Ski Touring