Overview of the chutes
The North side of Currie bowl has a delightful series of chutes that can be a real treat on a powder day. On the trail map these are listed in order down the ridge as Concussion, Tom's Run, Cornice Chute, Barracuda and Currie Creek, but once the snow pack builds you can easily ski between the chutes and the boundaries become arbitrary. Indeed, like many others, I have trouble keeping the names straight and am never all that sure which one I am supposedly on. The ski hill refers to these as the Currie Chutes, but many locals still refer to them collectively as the Concussion Chutes.
These chutes are somewhat steep and provide some great fall line skiing in powder conditions. They are South facing though and can get quite soft on sunny spring days and of course that means they can also be rather nasty the next morning before the melt begins.
I find the designation of Concussion and Tom's Run on this map kind of arbitrary. Personally I would consider Concussion the least threatening of the group as it descends a gully to the skier's right of a steep, treed, rock band that all the other pass through. However all of these runs are pretty steep, with lots of trees and rocky outcrops that definitely make them a place to avoid if icy and certainly could claim the double black badge.
You get to the Currie Glades by means of a traverse that starts from Currie Powder.
2003-01-30
Overview of the chutes
2006-01-08
In one of the chutes - Cornice I think.
Last modified on 2007-11-19
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