Backcountry Skiing Vail Pass, Colorado | Beacon Guidebooks

Backcountry Skiing Vail Pass, Colorado is a backcountry skiing and snowboarding guidebook to Vail Pass, Colorado from Beacon Guidebooks. 

Vail Pass is known for its expansive high-alpine backcountry terrain, its generous snowfall, and its playful terrain features. With an abundance of zones ranging simple to complex, this ski atlas highlights a wide spectrum of terrain and difficulty. Provided you already have at least a small amount of experience as a backcountry skier and have some level of avalanche knowledge and training, there is something in this atlas for everyone.

The Forest Service, with input from the Vail Pass Alliance, carefully manages this high-use area to meet the needs of all user groups – skiers, snowmobilers, and hybrid travelers – creating one of the most organized backcountry systems out there. In this guide we’ve worked hard to clearly communicate the motorized and non-motorized use designations with easy-to-understand graphics, route descriptions, parking, and trailhead information. You’ll also find high-quality aerial photos marked with ascent and descent indicators, individual approach and run descriptions, slope angles, aspect, Avalanche Terrain Exposure Scale ratings, and more. 

This 5.5” x 8.5” spiral-bound book covers the following zones: Uneva Peak, Uneva Peak North, Uneva Peak East, Uneva Ridge, Uneva South, Black Lakes, Booterville, Shrine Mtn East, Shrine Bowl, Shrine Mtn South, Wingle South, Teles, Ptarmigan East, Ptarmigan North, Ptarmigan Southeast, Ptarmigan SW + BBQ, Resolution Mtn, Mcallister Gulch, Resolution East, Resolution North, Boss Basin, Machine Gun Ridge, Dale’s + Whales, Lower Way Back, Janet’s Cabin, Jackal Hut, Commando Run.

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