Elephant graveyard4/1/2023 The road coming from the right corner is the road you'll be poling up if you don't traverse soon enough or find a cut through to Moe-Mentum. You can start right when the trees start, or delay your entry until almost at No Name: There is an earlier cut as well, involving uphill poling, but not as much as exiting to No Name:Įlephants' Graveyard is the trees ahead on the left. Lower area, showing exit onto Moe-Mentum's alternate route. Exiting towards No Name higher up, or cutting through to Moe-Mentum via the small cut just about dead center of the picture is the easiest exit.īetter view of exits as seen from Whitey's: Unfortunately that road involves an uphill slope. What can't be seen is that there is a road at the very bottom, between Moe-Mentum and Elephants leading out of the area. You can see the tendency of tracks in Elephant's to veer over towards the left side of the picture toward No Name in order to save poling on exit. Overviews of the area seen from East Rim Face: There is some disagreement between what is Space and what is Elephants.I've spent so much time in Elephant's that I had 277 pictures to whittle down to just these few! Even in late season, there is usually great snow in Elephants'!.You can either exit all the way over onto No Name, or with an uphill push, you can come out via Moe-Mentum. If you want to avoid this poling, keep anĮye out for the point at which it seems there are a lot of lateral traverses happening. For exit, you need to decide how much poling and hiking you want to do, as the route straight down the pitch necessitates some uphill poling if you don't traverse out to the right high enough. The snow on this whole face is normally fantastic due to the prevailing winds sweeping snow from the frontside bowl up and over to this side of the ridge.Type of trail: Steep treed area beyond Space along the Inspiration ridge, just before No Name.Photos looking back up the hill will be described as such. They have been taken over several years, so conditions shown will vary depending on what was happening the day In most cases, elephant bones are found near water. This is where the concept of the elephant graveyard does ring true in a sense. Photos are taken as you come down the hill. This, coupled with the knowledge of the animals’ intelligent nature is what lead to the belief that elephants travel to a certain area to die. Home > North Bowl Area > Elephants' GraveyardĮlephants' Graveyard Clicking on the photos enlarges them.
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