Suicide Chute on 11,068′ Mt. Superior, UT on November 22, 2023. image: snowbrains

Report from November 22, 2023

Yesterday, Inti and I went for a walk up and down Suicide Chute on 11,068′ Mt. Superior, UT.

Inti is a buddy from Bariloche, Argentina.

This was my first time skiing Suicide Chute in Spanish!

11,068′ Mt. Superior, UT – “Suicide Chute”

Details

Summit (actually a notch): 9,900′
Car: 8,400′
Vertical From Car: 1,500′
Vertical skied: ???′
Max Pitch: 45º
Avg Pitch: 40º
Aspect: East
Distance: 1.5-miles round trip
Time From Car to Top: 1 hour & 20 minutes
Car to Car Time: 2 hours & 30 minutes
Recommended Equipment: Crampons, Ice Axe

Ski day #290 of my “300” project.

I have until December 8, 2023, to hit 300…

I want the skiing in this project to always be as meaningful as possible.

Suicide Chute on 11,068′ Mt. Superior, UT. image: snowbrains

I could just ski the Blue Square groomer at Park City every day until I hit 300 but I want to push myself and experience meaningful skiing on as many of these 300 days as humanly possible.

There still isn’t enough snow to ski down the base of the chute nor the apron – which is kinda normal for me at this point…

I generally ski this chute in the very early and very late season and I love it.

This is a very popular zone but early and late it can be empty or at least less busy.

2.6 million humans on the Wasatch Front puts a lot of pressure on this tiny mountain range so you have to employ some strategy to keep out of the middle of the pack.

Skinning up the south-facing apron was hot in the sun but easy enough.

We switched to boot packing sans crampons at the base of the chute and scrambled up the wall just looker’s right of the chute and into the chute proper.

A boot pack was already in and we made decent time to the top of the couloir.

1 hour and 20 minutes to the top.