May 13, 2007, Mother's Day Chute (aka Zipper Chute)

I don't know for sure what the chute is called, it's on the NE ridge extending from Tinkham Peak - nicely viewable from Windy Pass and Mt Catherine.  Chris found one reference calling it "Zipper Chute" - for obvious reasons we're going to call it "Mother's Day Chute"!

The chute proper is about 800 ft., total descent down to the lake is 1700 ft.

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Crossing the Cold Creek coming out of Twin Lakes was, huh, interesting.

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Booting was firm and pretty fast...

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Looks close, but it's about 1k down to the trees

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Skiing was fun, but had to watch out for rocks shead for the clifts above

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