North Tripyramid Slide is known by many as a notorious scramble hike to attain the Tripyramid Peaks, but the North Slide makes an excellent ski. While the skiing is steep and sustained, this is a good “intro slide” since it has a trail directly to the base, rather than a creek or bushwhack. Start on a groomed XC Trail and skin to the Tripyramid Loop. After leaving the roads, you’ll begin following a narrow but still easily skinned trail, which brings you to the narrow entrance to the slide. Kick turning is remarkably inefficient in the narrow lower section, so it’s good to A-frame the skis here. Climb the narrow runout to where the Slide fans out, the upper section gets more wind scoured and has big rocks, so it takes a good snow year to fill it in. When it’s in, this offers wide open skiing with remarkable views of the Sandwich Range and Pemigewasset Wilderness to the north. Drop in and ski through the wide upper section. Move into the long, but still steep and sustained lower slide. This often holds better powder as it’s more sheltered, but slough management is important here. The exit is mostly mellow gliding, but the groomed XC Trails will require a long and arduous skate back to the car. Be prepared for old men to heckle you while they glide past you at 7mph, while you waddle your way over the last few miles to the car. A small price to pay for such a fun adventure. Be aware that this slide, like most in the White Mountains, is a textbook terrain trap with is funnel shape and terminus in the trees.