This glade is named after Jim Gentling, Pro Patroller, Mountain Manager and super skier. I knew Jim back in the mid-80s when I was an Auxiliary Patroller and perennial trainee. I never had the endurance or skiing skills to pass the certification test.

I wanted to place a cache in "Jump", one of the chutes off the Zuma cornice in Montezuma Bowl, but I couldn't find an entry point I liked. I don't do cornice drops well. I got to the end of the cornice and decided to try these glades, even though I am not very good at tree skiing. I picked my way along until I found a good cache spot.

The cache is a camo mega-bison (about the size of a coke can) attached to a standing dead tree. There are two standing snags in a little tree island. I am attaching a couple of spoiler pictures, as the challenge is getting here and back out, not finding the cache once you are here.

This is extreme terrain! It is relatively easy getting onto the Zuma cornice, but once you start down the cornice the only easy way out is hiking back to the top. Gentling's Glades is tree skiing. Elephant trunk to the right looks inviting, and is an open powder run, but then you get Montezuma's Revenge, a LONG traverse out to the lift.

Hiking in the summer may be extremely difficult as well.