Lift-Accessed Backcountry Skiing

Trip Itinerary

Your guide will contact you the day before at the phone number you give us to discuss an appropriate plan for you and to confirm a meeting place and start time. You will go over necessary gear to pack and meal planning. 

Some possible options include: 

Aspen Mountain, aka Ajax by seasoned locals, offers a wide range of easily accessible terrain minutes from the top of the Silver Queen Gondola. Offering low angle (think green circle steepness), beginner meadows and glades at 11,212’, Ajax is one of our single best introductory backcountry skiing products. This high elevation low angle skiing is also our go-to for fun, safe skiing during higher danger avalanche conditions. When conditions permit this mountain provides amazing 3,000’ plus steeper skiing from both east and west to the valley floors. Grab lunch at the top-of-mountain restaurant or stay out all day for more fresh tracks.   

Highlands – this is our bigger terrain. With a few hours of hiking with skis on our back from the top of the famed Highlands Bowl, we access 4,000’ lines to the east and west valley floors with runs that sustain 40° steepness.  When conditions permit, we also have no-hiking or skinning required options dropping from the lifts right into the majestic Maroon Bowl to the valley floor.  

Buttermilk – offers classic beginner terrain in the wide open “Sugar Bowls” and famed town-to-town alpine touring through old growth Aspen trees on the historic Government Trail. 

Snowmass – has it all from family friendly skiing on 13,000’ Mt. Baldy into green circle/ blue square above tree-line terrain, to the steep couloirs and chutes into East Snowmass Creek.