East Rim Face

Overview

• Rated:  , but one of the easier ones.
• Type of trail:  Ungroomed, treed area.  Multitude of lines available to vary the tree density, pitch, length of run, etc.
• Looking down the Ant Hill, off to the right on the ridge of East Rim, a cat track can be seen.  The lower third of the Ant Hill should be straight-lined because the track initially has an upward pitch.  Ski along the ridge and East Rim Face runs along the cat track on your right.  Most skiers go almost to the Nose to get the most drop, but stopping shy of the Nose will likely give you fresher powder because of that.  An alternate route would be just to head down Moe-mentum and cut in where you like before the bottom.  You will lose a lot of vertical drop doing this, but that edge is less skied.

View of the East Rim Face area as seen from Inspiration and No Name:

View approaching East Rim from the Ant Hill:

Gate is in the distance.  Watch for cross traffic heading towards Moe-Mentum:

Views across early (short) section of East Rim Face as you descend Moe-Mentum

This section is largely unskied due to its length (short).  Presumably you could hit the untracked, exit on Moe, then head back in again to the next section down.

View of area from further down Moe-Mentum (if you cut off the ridge early, then cut back in again):

View along East Rim's cat track, the face is on the right.  Steeper, rockier, terrain is off to your left:

Skier seen from on the face as they enter the top of the face from the cat track:

Views from the top of the main area:

Midway down, looking at Moe-Mentum:

Looking down a bit more skier's right than the above picture:

And back uphill:

From Moe-Mentum looking up hill, at the far end of East Rim: