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Pipeline Couloir at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort

Extreme · 394 m long with 288 m of vertical, averaging 36° and 43° at its steepest, facing NE.

43°steepest 50 m
36°average pitch
394 mlength
288 mvertical
3466 mtop elevation
NEfaces

Snow and sun

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

Grooming: backcountry. Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Pipeline Couloir

Lifts that reach the top: Little Cloud (skiing freeride terrain to get there); Mineral Basin (skiing freeride terrain to get there); Aerial Tram (skiing freeride terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 59 minutes, freeride skiing needed):

  1. Ride Aerial Tram
  2. Ski Road To Provo, Peruvian Gulch Road (intermediate)
  3. Ski Road To Provo, Sunday Saddle Road (intermediate)
  4. Ski Road To Provo (intermediate)
  5. Hike Pipeline couloir ascent (extreme)
  6. Ski Pipeline couloir ascent (extreme)
  7. Ski Pipeline Couloir (extreme)

Where it ends

Joins Rasta Chutes, Pipeline Bowl, Knucklehead Traverse. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Little Cloud (3 min), Gad 2 (6 min), Mid-Gad Lift (8 min).

See Pipeline Couloir on the 3D mapAll runs at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort
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.