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Thread: best couloir in north america?
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12-09-2005, 11:46 AM #101
edit: deleted because i'm an idiot. North America...got it.
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12-09-2005, 11:47 AM #102
Dead Dog... (On the right)
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12-09-2005, 11:50 AM #103
Mt. Sopris - Laundry Chutes were fun last spring. I'm not sure they are the best in N. America by any means, but one of my favorites.
Spring 2005
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12-09-2005, 12:14 PM #104
Not the biggest or baddest, but sweet coulies not the less
Lost Rat Couloir, Grays Peak
And the Goat Finger on Mt. Edwards
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12-09-2005, 12:16 PM #105Originally Posted by iskibc
Thanks for the beta. My first thoughts were that it would ski easier than it looked.
How much, on average, does the top fill in by March? Do I need to bring my rock gear to rap in? Is the upper ridgetop easy class III scrambling or would you recommend just booting up the thing? Thanks!
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12-09-2005, 12:22 PM #106
I've posted this before but oh well. Surprised no one's mentioned the 'ole Grunge...! Not sure the actual couloir is 1500' but it's not far behind.
March a couple years ago:
June shot, it's the looker's right notch:
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12-09-2005, 12:24 PM #107Originally Posted by Yonder_River
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12-09-2005, 12:35 PM #108
San Juaquen (AP?) chute outside of Telluride. Access from Ohir. It is the shit.
Creek Boaters Like Tight Boxes
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12-09-2005, 01:10 PM #109
Question for you New Englanda's:
Has anyone skied Shoestring Gully on Mt. Webster?
Not too steep, but almost 3k of vert. Very slide prone when in skiable shape though.Is it radix panax notoginseng? - splat
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12-09-2005, 02:25 PM #110
OK it's not in North America, but you coulior freaks should check out this vid: https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...ight=marinelli --- more than 6000ft of coulier action on the Swiss-Italian border. Never more than 50 degrees, looks like a winner if the conditions are just right.
About the question in the forum about climbing, it's an easy but VERY long two day trek to the entrance of the coulier (involving 7000ft+ of touring uphill). My guess is they took the heli to capitalize on the short conditions window, so they wouldn't be completely finished before they even started, and hey when you're risking your life on something the $400 fee probably doesn't sound as bad.Last edited by bbirtle; 12-09-2005 at 02:28 PM.
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12-09-2005, 02:25 PM #111Registered User
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No Montana love. Greywolf couloir gets my vote. Great views of the Missions, Swans, St Mary's Peak and Flathead lake. The penatly box is pretty high also. My right pole is pointed right at the top. Not a great picture, but you get the idea.
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12-09-2005, 03:17 PM #112
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12-09-2005, 03:24 PM #113Originally Posted by Strider
You mean the Hossack-McGowan on the Grand?
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12-09-2005, 04:18 PM #114Originally Posted by Huckwheat
I also like Dana, is a classic
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12-09-2005, 05:03 PM #115
Sweet thread. Moran is definitely the coolest thing I have skied. There are just so many beautiful lines in this thread, impossible to pick one.
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12-09-2005, 05:11 PM #116
Sweet Thread, Great idea. Mtnlion, I heard about someone skiing Cascade a few years back. Solid work.
I'd have to agree 3/4 at Moraine lake looks pretty nice.
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12-09-2005, 06:58 PM #117Originally Posted by Core Shot
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12-09-2005, 07:22 PM #118
my, my, my....sick pics
perhaps we should go global?
here's a little something, not the biggest or best but pushing 3000' to the road w/ a lift assist on the way up.
The Labyrinthe Mdz, AR. my, my, my...
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12-09-2005, 07:38 PM #119
I second the "Y" and throw in Big Sky's "Big Couloir" (and they don't even require any trekking, camping, or rappelling. Just good timing).
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12-09-2005, 09:09 PM #120Registered User
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Wow! I can't believe that no one has said, "The Black Ice Couloir." The name allow send shivers up your back..... Sorry, I don't have a photo of it handy.
Any way, the Black Ice is between the Enclosure and the Grand Teton. I climbed it back in 79' and I was impressed (60 degree hard-as-nails alpine ice pitches, VERY narrow crux pitch section, screaming ass rockfall.... ). It was finally skied by Mark Newcomb and Steve Koch in 93'. I think they had to belay ski/snowboard it most of the way.
Flying around Baffin Island in May 99', I saw thousands of small, big and monster size couloirs. Baffin Island is a treasure house of first ski descents.... To bad its such a bitch to go there.
Halsted"True love is much easier to find with a helicopter"
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12-09-2005, 09:22 PM #121
It is absurd that no one has mentioned the Jackson Hole Wy. town Couloir somewhere between 5,000-65,345 vertical and 65-23 constant pitch until you ski into the creek at the bottom.
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12-09-2005, 09:24 PM #122
mt. buckner n. face col. been skied maybe a couple of times. once that i know of.
ice cliff colouir mt stuart
Last edited by Zeedashbo; 12-09-2005 at 09:28 PM.
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12-09-2005, 09:30 PM #123
fight!fight!fight indeed. A superb troll, multifluous and faceted, deep and cutting.
Too many conditions, though. It's only a mirror.
N. Cascades are so rich. So is Cooke City, Montana. And the T-Juanas. And Koots. And the melilfluos folds of the Sawtooths. The blood of christ range. Not to mention the spine of fire from Baker to Shasta++.
I'm no judge, there's shitloads way better, only a cheap acolyte.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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12-09-2005, 10:33 PM #124Originally Posted by MOHSHSIHd
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12-10-2005, 05:49 AM #125Originally Posted by BlurredElevens
Seriously, I think he did straightline from the choke on down. He's retarded that way.
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