One of the more challenging ways to get down from Draft Dodger Ridge, is to
follow the left side of the ridge (which has many places you can ski down into
Great Scott Bowl), until you get here. The ridge becomes sharply steeper
at Unicorn, nicknamed "No Way In", which is mostly a cliff band from
the Hummocks all the way across the fall line to Great Scott Bowl.
You can negotiate these cliffs by going around them to the left on a shelf, or
skiing a tight 45 degree chute at the left end of the cliffs, or coming down a
54-58 degree face just right of the chute. (These last two choices are
pictured here). Further right is mostly cliffs, so air is your only
option.
Once you get past these cliffs, you're on a shelf above another cliff band
you have to negotiate before you're down to Big Trees. The fall line
curves left between 40 and 46 degrees into a chute that empties you out.
Every other way down is a cliff drop or a >50 degree steep face. If you
stay right, you can worm your way over to the lower part of the Hummox, through
a succession of steep faces and cliffs.
April 1999