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04-25-2005, 12:19 PM #1
TR: The Diagonal Couloir, Pinnacle Butte (11,516 feet), WY
TR: The Diagonal Couloir, Pinnacle Butte (11,516 feet), WY
By Wyomingsplit_ride (Jeramie Prine)
With spring in Wyoming, the backcountry opens up a whole new aspect of riding. Three words: steep-couloir-riding. The Diagonal Couloir found on Pinnacle Butte (Togwotee Pass) is the epitome of these three words. It is truly a classic couloir that drops 1500 vertical feet, is a sustained 45 degrees (steeper at the top), and is surrounded by huge vertical walls that add to the true mystic of it. The Diagonal is not for the faint-of-heart or a place you want to get flushed for that matter.
Shad Hamilton and Wyomingsplit_ride decided to make a second attempt on this line. We left for the mountains at 3:45 am. Unlike the Sierras, wet slides are much more common and we knew that we would need to be riding this shot before it got too warm. Our timing was perfect and we made the summit by 10:30 am. The snow was solid and had undergone a proper melt freeze cycle that would aid in our ascent and descent.
Pinnacle Butte and our approach and descent route (Photo Kevin Forrester):
Looking up at the Diagonal Couloir from the bottom (Photo Kevin Forrester):
Shad climbing the apron:
Into the Diagonal:
Shad Further Up and starting to commit. The snow seemed pretty solid despite frozen melt balls:
Wyomingsplit_ride in the gut of the beast. Notice the frozen melt balls. They made the riding interesting on the way down:
About halfway up the couloir looking down:
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04-25-2005, 12:20 PM #2
Part TWO: The top pitch and summit
Part TWO: The top pitch and summit
The top pitch made the pucker factor climb a bit. I was thinking….gosh and we get to come down this…stoke-age or broke-age:
Shad climbing the top pitch:
A little steepness perspective on the top pitch of the Diagonal. Only jump turns down this section:
Shad climbing the last 40 feet of the Diagonal Couloir:
One of the sickest views from the top of the Pinnacles and the Diagonal. Togwotee Pass and the Tetons in the background. Truly, phenomenal!
Mandatory summit shot…grins to boot!
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04-25-2005, 12:21 PM #3
Part Three: THE DESCENT
Part Three: THE DESCENT
Wyomingsplit_ride drops the Diagonal. WHO SAYS VOILE SPLITBOARDS ARE FLEXI? I wish they would send me a Mountain Gun!
Looking back on the summit, couloir, and the sun shining down on the Pinnacles. The perfect end to the perfect day! Thank you Jah.
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04-25-2005, 12:22 PM #4
Sweet!
Nice looking couloir...
peace,
BS."There's a truth that sanity denies...." --Sprung Monkey
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04-25-2005, 12:23 PM #5
"It is not the result that counts! It is not the result but the spirit! Not what - but how. Not what has been attained - but at what price.
- A. Solzhenitsyn
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04-25-2005, 12:23 PM #6
Balls.
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04-25-2005, 12:23 PM #7
get er done!!! More stoke for a Monday! Thanks.
"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair." -Emerson
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04-25-2005, 12:25 PM #8Lambaster
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very noice!!!!
"... she'll never need a doctor; 'cause I check her out all day"
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04-25-2005, 12:26 PM #9Sub-par GTA Player
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Nice!
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."
- Kurt Vonnegut
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04-25-2005, 12:41 PM #10
Unfuckablewith!
I should probably change my username to IReallyDon'tTeleMuchAnymoreDave.
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04-25-2005, 12:42 PM #11
thank you all for the positive comments. I appreciate it.
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04-25-2005, 12:48 PM #12
Titties!
The floggings will continue until morale improves.
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04-25-2005, 12:55 PM #13
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04-25-2005, 12:56 PM #14
Solid Core
Way to rock the Rockies!
That is the most boss couloir I've seen on this site in a while. What a fucking view from the top. BALLS is an understatement!
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04-25-2005, 12:58 PM #15
Very nice TR. I did some hiking/climbing right in that area last summer. Very cool place with lots of lines for the taking.
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04-25-2005, 01:00 PM #16
BALLZY BALLS!!!
Sick.
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04-25-2005, 01:10 PM #17
another awesome Wyoming TR!!
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04-25-2005, 01:19 PM #18
Great job!
My voile splitter wants some of that!Living the good life.
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04-25-2005, 01:23 PM #19
Kick Booty TR. Thanks for the it so aint over inspo. Waxen em up for to git some tommarrow. Tis the season to bag good lines. Whats another day of unemployment gonna hurt anyhow.
"When the child was a child it waited patiently for the first snow and it still does"- Van "The Man" Morrison
"I find I have already had my reward, in the doing of the thing" - Buzz Holmstrom
"THIS IS WHAT WE DO"-AML -ski on in eternal peace
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04-25-2005, 01:50 PM #20Originally Posted by skifishbum
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04-25-2005, 02:00 PM #21
FKNA
I have been dreaming about that line for years.
You gave the best TR and detailed multiple photos I have seen.
thanks so much.
Schweeeet Sickness
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04-25-2005, 02:08 PM #22
Where do you live Core Shot? It is definitely one that I will get back to, but there are two other couloirs (Chockstone Dog Leg and the Bottleneck Classic) that are just as nice. Thanks for the kindness.
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04-25-2005, 02:42 PM #23
that did me a kindness.
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04-25-2005, 04:21 PM #24
fknA
567890Live To Ski!
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04-25-2005, 04:34 PM #25
What we have seen here is a text book example of how the gnarl gets schralped.
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