Suicide / Homicide

Over the last couple weeks I’ve had the chance to take a couple runs up the South Ridge of Mt Superior. It’s one of those climbs where the right snow conditions can turn it into an easy romp, and the wrong conditions can triple your time and get kinda real in some places.

Luckily, the obvious bail-out point for a lap that’s not going well is at the saddle where Suicide Chute drops to the East and Homicide Chute drops to the West. So, even if your day isn’t going to plan, you’re still going to get to do some amazing skiing.

On each lap, for various reasons, we decided to call it at the saddle. The first time up with Elias, we picked the East line. The second time with Jack, we picked the West. I’ve skied Suicide Chute a few times before, and it’s always been a blast. But, I had never been down Homicide Chute. That thing is amazing—steep, tight, technical—and we got it in excellent snow conditions. Other than the two rock steps which we opted to side step/down climb rather than just send, we got about 1800ft of some of my season’s best skiing. Neither of these bail out options are a bad way to spend a morning.

Elias headed up the South Ridge.
Passing the Gazex.
Into the rocks, which were nice and dry.
Steep snow.
Pfeifferhorn.
Alpine above civilization.
Onto the proper ridge.
Elias headed down Suicide Chute.
Jack headed up in fresh snow.
Into the mixed terrain.
Back on the knife-edge section .
At the same place where Eli stood a week before.
Iced up skis.
Dropping into Homicide Chute.
So good!
Getting it the rocky section after the left turn.
Yeah, it got a bit messed up for a minute.
More goods at the bottom. It was basically all like this.
On April 7, 2021   /   Adventure, Blog, Snow  

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