Skiing Tuckerman Ravine is a ritualistic sacrifice for some of the best skiing exeriences imaginable. Mount Washington, the home of the ravine, boasts some of the world's worst weather. Extremely harsh, cold, and snowy winters pound the slopes of the 6000 foot New Hampshire resident every winter. Snow falls, builds, packs, slides, fills, and falls again throughout the season. When this weather cycle dies down in March, Tuckerman Ravine opens for business. Hordes and droves of skiers, hikers, grillers, watchers, runners, dogs, and snowboarders make the pilgrimage to the spring-time skiing mecca. The main bowl offers every type of terrain a skier could want. 35 degree chutes surround the peripheral, 40 degree slopes to either side, and the cliffs and icefalls of the 55 degree Headwall straight ahead. Jump, check, wideopen, steep, straight, and incredible turns typify an average run. And if you happen to hit the ravine a 60 degree, bluebird day during a great snowyear, well my friend, you might have just found paradise.
