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Pink Pine Ridge
Pink Pine Ridge
Drainage White Pine Fork
Red Pine Fork
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Pink Pine Ridge is the ridge that separates lower White Pine Fork from Red Pine Fork. The ridge extends from the Little Cottonwood creek to White Baldy, but the name is more frequently applied to the portion of the ridge that is below (i.e., north of) Rainbow Peak.

Pink Pine is the main run off of Pink Pine Ridge. The Pink Pine Chutes are a much less popular, and much more challenging, run on the west side of Pink Pine Ridge.

Getting to Pink Pine Ridge

Pink Pine Ridge (below Rainbow Peak)
Trailhead White Pine Trailhead
Ascent Vertical 1,800'
Skinning Distance 2.0 miles
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Park at the White Pine trailhead. The trail starts in the southwest corner of the parking lot (near the bathrooms), goes downhill and to your left very briefly, and crosses the Little Cottonwood Canyon creek on a small footbridge. After less than 30 minutes of gentle climbing on an abandoned road, the trail meets the White Pine Fork creek. The road makes a hard left hand turn at this point and continues up White Pine Fork. A smaller trail branches to the right at this turn, crosses the creek, and contours west toward Red Pine Fork. Take this trail toward Red Pine Fork.

After following the trail toward Red Pine Fork for less than 10 minutes (and before the trail wraps around the 'toe' of Pink Pine Ridge and heads into Red Pine Fork), you should see a skin track that branches off to your left and zigzags up Pink Pine Ridge. Most of the climbing on the ridge is quite safe, although there is a short stretch that is 34°. The Pink Pine run is on the left (east) side of Pink Pine Ridge.

The entrance to the Pink Pine run starts at a clearing after approximately 30 minutes of skinning up the ridge, but you can drop in sooner into tighter aspens, or a later into open pines, or continue on to Red Right Returning. You can also ski up to the rocks at the “base” of Rainbow Peak and head right (west) into the steep Pink Pine Chutes.

About the Name

Red, White, Pink, and Rainbow. I think you get it.