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EAST FACE
EAST FACE
Date Created: 10/22/2009
Last Updated: 10/22/2009
Ranking:Premier
Skiable Vert:3200 ft
Climbing Vert:3346 ft
Top Elevation:9975 ft
Trailhead Elevation:6629 ft
Ascent Mileage:3.5
AVG Ascent Time:2-3 hours
Ascent Type:Skin
Trees:Nicely Spaced
Slope Aspect:East
Steepest Section:25-35 Degrees
Slope Type:Ridge, Bowl, Face
Exit:Clean
First Descent:
Nearest Town:Moose
AVG Snowfall:400
Snowpack:Intercontinental

Highlights

Twenty-Five Short's East Face is a backcountry skiing classic in the Tetons. It's slopes aren't heavily prone to avalanches, except the open bowl from the summit. You get great views of the main Teton Peaks once on top. This is usually where everyone gets de-flowered with their first Teton skiing experience.

Ascent

Park at the Taggart/Bradley lake trailhead in Grand Teton National Park. Head west/southwest around a hilly mound feature. contour it and it will eventaully steer you more westerly where you will ascend a semi burnt forest and then just go up and you will eventally get to the top of Twenty-Five Short.

Descent

Ski anywhere, its all good on the East Face. The more skiers lright you venture the more avey prone it is.

Access/Permits

National Park Pass.

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Bartlebee: December 25, 2011 Uphill: 0 ft. | Downhill: 0 ft.

Nice late afternoon skin up 25 Short. Snow was pretty damn fun. Merry Christmas!...[view]
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Warpigsinfin: January 8, 2010 Uphill: 3,000 ft. | Downhill: 3,000 ft.

Serious inversion today. -26F on the valley floor but T-shirt skinning 1000 feet up. It was so warm at 10,000 feet that my skins started icing up... gotta remember to pack the skin wax next time. S...[view]
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Warpigsinfin: January 6, 2010 Uphill: 3,000 ft. | Downhill: 3,000 ft.

We had a perfect ski down 25 Short today despite HIGH avy danger. It when bluebird and we saw lots of avy activity in the surrounding mountains including...Grand: Upper E SnowfieldOwen: SE Snowfield ...[view]

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