Tuckerman Ravine

Dodge's Drop is a steep descent beside Hillman's Highway, entered from the Boott Spur ridge.

This Chute variation follows a tight gully beside the main line, requiring turns in a confined passage.

The Icefall crosses frozen waterfalls immediately left of the Lip when viewed uphill. Snow coverage determines whether those drops remain exposed.

Left Gully is a long, rock-walled couloir in Tuckerman Ravine. The walls constrict the middle of the route, then end at a wider upper opening. A rock buttress separates its mouth from Chute.

Sluice is a southeast-facing, convex ski line in Tuckerman Ravine, with an icefall partway down and a runout above Lunch Rocks. Wind-slab fractures can propagate uphill and laterally toward the Lip and the mouth of Right Gully, beyond the skier's immediate position.

Between the Lip and Chute, the headwall's ski lines weave through rock outcrops and ice flows. Coverage changes which passages connect.

Chute is a steep, east-facing, funnel-shaped couloir in Tuckerman Ravine. Its shape collects substantial snow above a narrow choke. MWAC identifies the ascent as having no meaningful protected stopping places or escape from an avalanche inside the gully.

Right Gully doglegs above Lunch Rocks before its lower runout.

Lobster Claw is a forked snow gully beneath Lion Head ridge, on the right side of Tuckerman Ravine when viewed uphill.

The Sherburne is the downhill ski return toward Pinkham Notch from the Hermit Lake area. Granite Backcountry Alliance lists 2.4 miles and 1,918 feet of vertical drop, with repeated fall-line turns. Use the Tuckerman Ravine Trail for uphill travel and the Sherburne for downhill travel; GBA specifies no skiing on the Tuckerman Ravine Trail.

This Chute variation narrows into a tight slot, leaving less turning room than the main hourglass line.

This mapped approach runs from Pinkham Notch through Hermit Lake to the floor of Tuckerman Ravine. Use it for uphill travel, with the John Sherburne Ski Trail as the designated downhill ski return.

Raymond Cataract lies north of Lion Head ridge. Its upper bowl funnels into a narrow streambed and cascading waterfall, creating a terrain trap below the skiing. A deep snowpack is needed to cover the waterfall terrain; apparent coverage higher in the bowl does not establish a usable lower exit.

Hillman's Highway has two steep upper forks that merge into a longer gully below, south of Tuckerman's main bowl.

The Tuckerman Ravine Trail passes through the Lip, where the slope steepens over a convex rollover toward the ravine floor. Seeing Hermit Lake below does not make this a straightforward descent: snow-covered trail terrain here can require mountaineering equipment and skills.

Little Headwall is the waterfall step in the drainage between Tuckerman's bowl and the ski return toward the Sherburne.