Left Gully Windy But Rippable - 12/07/25
Dec 07, 2025
Guest blog by Matt, James, and Jon
We left the parking lot around 7:30 am, up the John Sherburne Ski Trail with clear and sunny conditions. We skinned all the way to the top with only the final water bar still running—a welcome surprise this early in the season. Coverage on the lower slopes has filled in nicely, too, a noticeable improvement from just two weeks ago.
We made it to the bowl around 9 am with some summit fog and blowing clouds, but moments of bluebird as well. We had some chats on the way up and called an audible to ski Left Gully.
After skinning up to the bottom of Left Gully and transitioned to booting at the bottom of the slide path. We were met with windy and cold conditions, but good. And there's a very nice boot pack forming at this point.
We transitioned just below the lip. Firm and fast up top, ripping down the bottom after the dog leg.
Booted down portions of the goat path, naturally. We skied from the water pump down to the cars with fun snow conditions and much fewer hazards compared to the last few weeks. Still plenty of sharks to look out for on the final three pitches. The consensus was the faster you go the less rocks you will hit (said theory is still being researched).
1 comment
Why do you keep hyping skinning up the Sherb? The TRT is more than adequately filled in for uphill traffic.
With the increase in flow of people; specifically those using the Sherb to go up who travel three, or four abreast, or traverse from one side to the other in a tip to tail train of 4 or 5 chasing the same snow bridges over water bars used by downhill traffic, combined with much better downhilling conditions is going to be problematic.
7am downhill pow runs on the Sherb shouldn’t be filled with near misses of folks bent over swapping layers behind a blind roller, uphillers yelling ‘yield to the traffic below you’ because they think you went by them too fast, or whole sections of trail choked off because a group needs to remain tip to tail while traversing from a skin track in the right to make a new track on the left.
It would be nice to utilize your platform to reiterate the TRT is primary up, and now probably in better skin track condition than the lower 3rd of the Sherb.