Some of you may have noticed that I have borrowed the title of this post from Andrew McLean's book of the same name. It is because of this book that we even know the names of what Luke and I skied today. I have had my eye on a few chutes in Wolverine Cirque for some time. I have skied some back there before, but there are many more I have not yet tackled. Today was set apart as a day to check a few more off the list. Luke and I headed up around 8 this morning with our first objective being the Scythe. This chute begins at the top of Wolverine Peak and is one of the longest chutes in this area. The entrace got our hearts pounding a
little which only continued with excitement once we started skiing. This was a really fun line. It had wider sections, skinnier sections, and everything in between. I really expected to see more people back here today, but it appears we were the only ones with this idea. Visability in the bowl was rather flat making really nice turns a little difficult, but the chutes were solid. We then skinned up Gran
ny's for our second descent down Bronco Chute. This is one we looked at from the top on our way to the Scythe and determined it would be fun to ski. So we did. There was nothing terribly special about this line, but it was fun nonetheless. We skinned up again and this time skied another chute I have been looking at for some time - the Zoot Chute. This one looked cool because it has a hard right turn half way down the chute and it gets super skinny on the bottom half. It was super cool. I really had to drive my turns hard in order to keep a rhythm down it, which made it a lot of fun. We caught out skin track one last time and made our way
back to the summit. We then skied down the south side into Alta. This did not prove to be our best idea of the day. There was a death crust that made for some difficult turns. We skied down and met up with some family friends of Luke's then we took a few runs in Alta with the help of the lifts before I was to meet Stacy for "Free After Three." The snow really wasn't great today,
but we found some terrain that was fun regardless. I have wanted to ski these chutes for some time and I can now go into my copy of "The Chuting Gallery" and mark off three more chutes. He told me to "ski 'em all" and I am slowly on my way!
Some of you may have noticed that I have borrowed the title of this post from Andrew McLean's book of the same name. It is because of this book that we even know the names of what Luke and I skied today. I have had my eye on a few chutes in Wolverine Cirque for some time. I have skied some back there before, but there are many more I have not yet tackled. Today was set apart as a day to check a few more off the list. Luke and I headed up around 8 this morning with our first objective being the Scythe. This chute begins at the top of Wolverine Peak and is one of the longest chutes in this area. The entrace got our hearts pounding a
little which only continued with excitement once we started skiing. This was a really fun line. It had wider sections, skinnier sections, and everything in between. I really expected to see more people back here today, but it appears we were the only ones with this idea. Visability in the bowl was rather flat making really nice turns a little difficult, but the chutes were solid. We then skinned up Gran
ny's for our second descent down Bronco Chute. This is one we looked at from the top on our way to the Scythe and determined it would be fun to ski. So we did. There was nothing terribly special about this line, but it was fun nonetheless. We skinned up again and this time skied another chute I have been looking at for some time - the Zoot Chute. This one looked cool because it has a hard right turn half way down the chute and it gets super skinny on the bottom half. It was super cool. I really had to drive my turns hard in order to keep a rhythm down it, which made it a lot of fun. We caught out skin track one last time and made our way 
back to the summit. We then skied down the south side into Alta. This did not prove to be our best idea of the day. There was a death crust that made for some difficult turns. We skied down and met up with some family friends of Luke's then we took a few runs in Alta with the help of the lifts before I was to meet Stacy for "Free After Three." The snow really wasn't great today, 
but we found some terrain that was fun regardless. I have wanted to ski these chutes for some time and I can now go into my copy of "The Chuting Gallery" and mark off three more chutes. He told me to "ski 'em all" and I am slowly on my way!
I was so proud of you for this post for all of three seconds: the three seconds it took me to realize your clever title was stolen.
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