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. Traverse past Angel Food and past a bug drainage, sidestep up to where an odd painting is hung from a tree. The first drop in you come to is Uranus. This is a long open glade that stays left of the big gully and eventually leads to some mini slides. The next line over, Neptune, 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. Ski this out to the Notch Road. The final drop in, Pluto 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. Cross a small creek at the bottom to the Notch Road.