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Thread: TR: Holy Cross Couloir
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04-13-2015, 03:56 PM #1
TR: Holy Cross Couloir
Last week I headed up Tigwon road with my sights set for Holy Cross. The road is an 8 mile approach. I met some NOVA snow guides, and hitched a ride up 5 miles and began skinning from the Community House.
Set camp at halfmoon pass and it began to snow. I recently came off a three day epic ski, so I drank and ate a little and quickly passed out, sleeping for about 16 hours.
An alpine start of 10 a.m. began the following day. I was excited that about 6" of new snow had fallen with minimal wind overnight.
Skinned/postholed up the North ridge and summited around 2p.m. The cross looking fine:
Dropped in and made a few ski cuts up top. There were some small pockets of windslab, but otherwise the snow was blower on top of a solid spring base. The skiing was great:
Skied out the exit and enjoyed some spring snow with a little bit of powder on top.
Picked my way through some narrow rocky chutes back to the creek
Climbed up halfmoon and went to sleep satisfied.
Skied out the next morning and bought the NOVA guides some beer.
Cheers,
MrwafflesThe furthur we go, the stranger it gets...
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04-13-2015, 04:11 PM #2
Very nicely done!
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04-13-2015, 04:54 PM #3
Great TR, well played.
j'ai des grands instants de lucididididididididi
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04-13-2015, 09:40 PM #4
Thank you sirs. You are both gentleman, and scholars.
The furthur we go, the stranger it gets...
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04-14-2015, 07:41 AM #5
Nice! Looked like the skiing was a blast!
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04-14-2015, 08:19 AM #6
Very nice
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04-14-2015, 09:01 AM #7
Well done
"The idea wasnt for me, that I would be the only one that would ever do this. My idea was that everybody should be doing this. At the time nobody was, but this was something thats too much fun to pass up." -Briggs
More stoke, less shit.
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04-14-2015, 11:04 AM #8
Good stuff. Thanks.
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04-15-2015, 01:26 PM #9
enjoyed thanks......
always forward but never straight
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04-15-2015, 03:17 PM #10
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04-15-2015, 07:11 PM #11
Outstanding, I've watched that video many times and I find it oddly relaxing, maybe because it's outside my skill set thus sort of remote.
Stupid, jong, whatever question.. but what set up are you using?.. esp. what binding, clearly you have confidence in it and it paid offyou know there ain't no devil,
there's just God when he's drunk---- Tom Waits
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04-15-2015, 08:07 PM #12
Fucking awesome
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04-15-2015, 08:25 PM #13
Nice work!
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Fukt: a very small amount of snow.
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04-16-2015, 05:31 AM #14
So I only have a one ski quiver. My old bindings broke this year in Chamonix, on some real steep terrain, made Cross look like a bunnyslope... Anyways, skis are BD reverts, scarpa maestrale boots(the orange, less stiff ones), and dynafits. The skis were 400 euro, boots 450 euro, and dynas 400 euro. Euro and USD are basically the same now. Shit should last me at least 5 years. I think I got 5 seasons out of my old equipment. I love the boots and bindings, the skis are rockered, which I'm not a fan of. Can't really tell the difference and you don't have as much grip on da steeps. My old traditional cambered BD kilowatts worked just fine, although they were beat to shit.
Unless you're out charging lines like the late Andreas Fransson, you don't need anything more beefy than dynafit. Although, for real steeps, I do lock the dynafits into "tour mode". Don't want those bastards coming off. Didn't do this for the cross, mostly for icy slopes and 45 - 50 deg terrain where I make real jump turns.Last edited by mrwaffles989; 04-16-2015 at 10:17 PM.
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09-04-2015, 02:13 PM #15
Bump because this TR is awesome and I watch the footage every now and again for summer stoke purposes.
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12-06-2015, 10:52 PM #16Registered User
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bucket list
on the bucket list for sure
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12-15-2015, 07:36 PM #17Registered User
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Awesome
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12-15-2015, 08:32 PM #18
nice!
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12-16-2015, 12:51 PM #19
Dam video doesn't work!
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04-12-2016, 05:17 PM #20guy who skis
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Good work!
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