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This refers to the series of chutes out beyond Angel Food. The further out you go, the steeper and shorter they get. The tree spacing is wide and playful up high, before rolling off into steep chutes and big cliffs. The name comes from the fact that these lines once had individual signs that read Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. These signs were stolen over the years, and since then these lines have taken on new names and nicknames. An important thing to note here is that once you traverse past Angel Food and the first creek you cross afterwards, all of the terrain beyond here exits through avalanche terrain, and the further out you go, the bigger and more serious the paths get. Don’t get in over your head by following the traverse blindly in search of fresh tracks. Traverse past Angel Food and past a big drainage, sidestep up to where an old painting is hung from a tree. This is a good landmark too, as the terrain being the painting is where things start to get serious. The first drop in you come to is a long open glade that stays left of the big gully and eventually leads to some mini slides. The next line over, Planet X, also sometimes called Banana Chute, descends through wide open, Japan-like glade skiing. Pick up a faint right trending drainage that eventually cuts under a steep waterfall into a steep, open chute. Cutting left before this chute will get you cliffed out above a large ice climb known as Driving Force. Ski this out to the Notch Road. The final drop in is reached by traversing a little bit further. Another wide open glade quickly funnels you into a gully. What looks unassuming from above quickly becomes a high walled chute, threading a needle through a prominent cliff band. This is quite fun to ski but also presents the biggest avalanche hazard of the 3. At the bottom, traverse skiers right to avoid having to cross a creek.
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Miniboos
At the area boundary sign on the skiers left side of Chin Clip, traverse to skiers left into beautiful hardwood glades. Drop in and ski wide open woods until you reach a traverse, follow this back to Chin Clip for an easy return to the Gondola.
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Hourglass
Tight skiing chute skiing directly off the summit of Mount Mansfield. A Vermont classic. Drop in near a prominent boulder on the summit, ski down a low angle snowfield, this funnels into a very steep and narrow chute. Ski tight turns into a wider runout that fans out, as the name would imply. This tight section is steep and can slough you out easily on a powder day. Although small, the avalanches this terrain can produce could easily sweep you into trees below. From here you can descend straight down through another chute and ski towards Taft Lodge, or hang a hard left towards the Adams Apple to gain access to Hellbrook and other lines in that area. As with all terrain on the Chin, be aware that you are stepping outside the resort boundary into the wilderness here. There are unmarked hazards such as cliffs, avalanche terrain, and miles of unmarked forest that one can easily become lost in if they don’t know where they are going. Carry a beacon, prove, shovel, water, food, warm layers, and a first aid kit, and travel with one or more partners. Most importantly, be willing to turn around if you have doubts about conditions or finding your route. It’s better to bail than become a rescue statistic.
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Angel Food
A Stowe classic, especially when linked with Profanity Chute. Angel Food is a long hardwood glade, reached by traversing far left from Chin Clip at the area boundary gate. Stay high for longer than you think, passing a drainage and a wooden bench with a nice view, to reach a drop in with a sign that reads “Angel Food”. A short tight section opens up into an expanse of hardwoods offering plenty of room for turns. Eventually you reach an obvious traverse, hanging a right here leads to “Oz” which comes out behind the parking lot for the gondola, and thus a shorter walk back. Most people go this way, but for more freshies, pass the traverse and continue down Angel Food. The lower food steepens and remains open all the way down to the Notch Road. A note on History, as per Kim Brown’s 6 part article in Stowe Reporter. Angel Food was cut by Dale, a local who lived atop the gondola as a cliff house caretaker. He cut Angel Food in the 1980s with just an axe, although other locals such as Skip and Brown himself did help out on occasion. According to research by Dave Goodman, the route Dale found was likely the path of the original Chin Clip, which skirted much more beneath the Chin than today’s version of the trail. For much of the season, this route was only skied by them. However, Dale let a few ski patrol in on the secret. Before he knew it, word had gone around about this zone to the point where Dale found it all tracked up. Today, it is well known and enjoyed by many.
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Profanity Chute
A true classic, and the easiest option off The Chin. A little hard to spot from the ridge, look for a faint Col between a false summit and the true summit. Ski an open chute to a dog leg, ski left down the more narrow exit chute and blend back into treeline. Follow the path of least resistance towards Taft Lodge, for the easiest exit, look for a drainage gully to the right, ski this to exit at Chin Clip. As with all terrain on the Chin, be aware that you are stepping outside the resort boundary into the wilderness here. There are unmarked hazards such as cliffs, avalanche terrain, and miles of unmarked forest that one can easily become lost in if they don’t know where they are going. Carry a beacon, prove, shovel, water, food, warm layers, and a first aid kit, and travel with one or more partners. Most importantly, be willing to turn around if you have doubts about conditions or finding your route. It’s better to bail than become a rescue statistic.
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Outer Planets
This refers to the series of chutes out beyond Angel Food. The further out you go, the steeper and shorter they get. The tree spacing is wide and playful up high, before rolling off into steep chutes and big cliffs. The name comes from the fact that these lines once had individual signs that read Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. These signs were stolen over the years, and since then these lines have taken on new names and nicknames. An important thing to note here is that once you traverse past Angel Food and the first creek you cross afterwards, all of the terrain beyond here exits through avalanche terrain, and the further out you go, the bigger and more serious the paths get. Don’t get in over your head by following the traverse blindly in search of fresh tracks. Traverse past Angel Food and past a big drainage, sidestep up to where an old painting is hung from a tree. This is a good landmark too, as the terrain being the painting is where things start to get serious. The first drop in you come to is a long open glade that stays left of the big gully and eventually leads to some mini slides. The next line over, Planet X, also sometimes called Banana Chute, descends through wide open, Japan-like glade skiing. Pick up a faint right trending drainage that eventually cuts under a steep waterfall into a steep, open chute. Cutting left before this chute will get you cliffed out above a large ice climb known as Driving Force. Ski this out to the Notch Road. The final drop in is reached by traversing a little bit further. Another wide open glade quickly funnels you into a gully. What looks unassuming from above quickly becomes a high walled chute, threading a needle through a prominent cliff band. This is quite fun to ski but also presents the biggest avalanche hazard of the 3. At the bottom, traverse right to avoid having to cross a creek.
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Outer Planets
This refers to the series of chutes out beyond Angel Food. The further out you go, the steeper and shorter they get. The tree spacing is wide and playful up high, before rolling off into steep chutes and big cliffs. The name comes from the fact that these lines once had individual signs that read Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. These signs were stolen over the years, and since then these lines have taken on new names and nicknames. An important thing to note here is that once you traverse past Angel Food and the first creek you cross afterwards, all of the terrain beyond here exits through avalanche terrain, and the further out you go, the bigger and more serious the paths get. Don’t get in over your head by following the traverse blindly in search of fresh tracks. Traverse past Angel Food and past a big drainage, sidestep up to where an old painting is hung from a tree. This is a good landmark too, as the terrain being the painting is where things start to get serious. The first drop in you come to is a long open glade that stays left of the big gully and eventually leads to some mini slides. The next line over, Planet X, also sometimes called Banana Chute, descends through wide open, Japan-like glade skiing. Pick up a faint right trending drainage that eventually cuts under a steep waterfall into a steep, open chute. Cutting left before this chute will get you cliffed out above a large ice climb known as Driving Force. Ski this out to the Notch Road. The final drop in is reached by traversing a little bit further. Another wide open glade quickly funnels you into a gully. What looks unassuming from above quickly becomes a high walled chute, threading a needle through a prominent cliff band. This is quite fun to ski but also presents the biggest avalanche hazard of the 3. At the bottom, make sure you hang right to avoid having to cross a creek.
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Hellbrook
Take Profanity (hiking required) Hourglass or North Ridge (more direct) to the Col between The Chin and the Adam’s Apple. Ski along the Hellbrook Trail around the backside of the Adams Apple to the top of a skinny brook. A narrow drop in leads to a skinny, faint riverbed. Ski down as the line slowly opens up, with glade hits and tributaries along the sides, offering plenty of places to find fresh turns. Eventually everything funnels you into one big gully. Enjoy these natural halfpipe turns, making sure you catch the traverse left before you start to encounter cliff drops in the lower gully. Nice turns through natural glades bring you down to the Notch Road, which you can skate back to the gondola. Hellbrook is difficult to navigate to without tracks or in poor visibility. It is comparably very far from from the resort and features unmarked hazards such as cliffs, water holes, and small avalanches terrain features. A small, unanticipated mistake can be deadly. Carry food, water, warm layers, an avalanche beacon, probe and shovel. If in doubt, don’t traverse out to Hellbrook and ski back to the resort.
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Back Bowls
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Birthday Bowls
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Teardrop Glade
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