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Banana Chute at Palisades Tahoe

Intermediate · 185 m long with 64 m of vertical, averaging 19° and 25° at its steepest, facing N.

25°steepest 50 m
19°average pitch
185 mlength
64 mvertical
2255 mtop elevation
Nfaces

Snow and sun

Banana Chute is poleward-facing: least winter sun, holds cold powder longest, can stay firm or icy.

Grooming: mogul. Moguls.

How to get to Banana Chute

Lifts that reach the top: Roundhouse (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Summit Six (skiing intermediate terrain to get there); Yellow (skiing advanced terrain to get there); Sherwood Express (skiing expert terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 9 minutes, intermediate skiing needed):

  1. Ride Roundhouse
  2. Ski Rock Garden (intermediate)
  3. Ski Charity (intermediate)
  4. Ski Charity (Red-Green) (intermediate)
  5. Ski Banana Chute (intermediate)

Where it ends

Joins Sandy's Corner, Charity (Red-Green). Nearest lifts from the bottom: Summit Six (2 min), Roundhouse (2 min), Kangaroo (2 min).

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Measured from OpenStreetMap geometry and elevation via OpenSkiMap (ODbL). Times are rough. Grades, grooming and openings change day to day — check the resort's own reports.