Whether you are interested in North facing or South facing slopes this page has you covered. The Crystal Mountain ski tours provide everything from tree skiing to open chutes. Once you start understanding the layout of the backcountry you can get numerous different styles of slopes within a single ski tour.
Big Crow Basin is one of those area where you look at the map and wonder what is out there. Being a massive bowl in the middle of nowhere there had to be good lines but it is such a remote area. With terrain wrapping around almost every aspect it was just a matter of … Read more
Dogleg bowl was my first introduction to the backcountry of Crystal Mountain Ski resort. Accessed via a hour long boot pack it access a small but nice alpine bowl. We would lay out a boot pack and lap it numerous times before riding down to Silver Basin. This trip was one of those days that Dan and I made our way out in the middle of a storm.
The season earlier I had set eyes on a possible route to gain access to a line I’d been looking at for a while. The plan was to do some ski touring to Sheep Lake Chute and with a little bit of persuading my friend Scott came along to check out the Terrain. At the time I had a hook up with MSR so I was given some snowshoes to try out so this was our method of transportation
Norse Peak is the highest summit around the Crystal Mountain area and offers a scenic alternative to the closer summits. Being a bit of a longer approach it is dramatically quieter than the surround mountains. It has 3 main faces that can be rode being the south side to Lake Basin. The North side into Big Crow Basin and the west side down into the Crystal Mountain valley if you are adventurous. Being that it was a clear day with a little bit of snow we made our way out there to take a lap on the South side before exciting via East Peak.
There was a small weather window at Crystal for Bluebird pow before the forecast turned to rain Scott and Myself made some laps in the Green Valley.
Scott skinning up under REX