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Thread: best couloir in north america?
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04-20-2006, 05:22 PM #151DisArray GuestOriginally Posted by boarderline
(thanks for the pic, whoever you are)Last edited by DisArray; 04-20-2006 at 05:29 PM.
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04-20-2006, 06:40 PM #152Originally Posted by sfotex
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04-20-2006, 06:46 PM #153Originally Posted by DisArray
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04-20-2006, 08:58 PM #154
the sierra has too many sweet corn-draped couloirs to name, so we just bring mini skis up during granite season
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04-20-2006, 11:38 PM #155
Extreme snowlerblading. That shit is HOT.
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04-21-2006, 03:28 AM #156Originally Posted by KillingCokes
Height: Scheelite is a full 6,000 vertical feet, beginning a ways up the ridge from the ruins of the Adamson Mine at over 13K' and ending at just above 7,000' at Pine Creek.
Slope: The upper chute is only 45° for a very short distance in a choke about 200' down from the top. The rest of it is 40ish and only lasts 1500 feet or less. Unfortunately the whole rest of the couloir varies wildly between long sections that are only 15-20 degrees (and wide as a football field) and short pitches of 35°.
Quality: unfortunately, usually full of junk (faces east-southeast) at any time that it's full to the bottom. And when it's not full to the outlet, the bush/boulder/waterfall/dirt/moss climbing at the bottom is a pretty good deterrent.
... I still recommend it, though, if you're in this for suffering and scenery more than good turns. If you climb up it from the road, a good starting time suggestion is midnight, or 3AM if you're in great shape. People try it from 4 or 5AM all the time and only get halfway up before getting chased out by slush trains.
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04-22-2006, 12:54 PM #157Registered User
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Very nice but not in NA.
[IMG]http://www.summitpost.org/images/original/64548.jpg\[IMG]
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04-22-2006, 01:01 PM #158Originally Posted by C-daleOriginally Posted by RootSkier
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04-22-2006, 01:04 PM #159Registered User
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Originally Posted by hemas
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04-22-2006, 04:45 PM #160
Here's a happy little one. It's hidden in a little cranny between Sugar Bowl and Squaw. It takes roughly 8 hours (2 1/2 hour skin approach and slow going return) but is best with an overnight hut stay. It's about 3,500' and is an easy approach on the looker's right shoulder (out of frame), then around the back. It goes top to bottom. Oldtimer and I got it twice in one day a couple of years back in picture perfect powder.
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06-15-2006, 03:28 PM #161Registered User
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Bump. 'cause this is good stoke and maybe some one has some additions from this spring they'd like to add. After all, we're just about down to nothin' but couloirs left out there.
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Attachment 14048Last edited by FrankZappa; 06-15-2006 at 05:45 PM.
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01-17-2007, 04:21 PM #162
Fissile like a Missile couloir
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01-17-2007, 05:08 PM #163
Cool!
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01-17-2007, 05:18 PM #164
This is my brother in law's shot taken from Beehive Basin (near Big Sky) last winter. Does it have a name?
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01-17-2007, 05:55 PM #165
Glad to see the revival of this thread. Not sure of the name but these beauties are located on Whistler Mountain and viewable from Highway 20. I'm sure someone from Mazama or Winthrop would have the beta.
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible" -Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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01-17-2007, 05:56 PM #166
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01-17-2007, 06:14 PM #167Registered User
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01-17-2007, 06:15 PM #168
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01-17-2007, 07:03 PM #169
i know in the original post Baffin island was ruled too inaccessible, but that was back in '05, this '07 man... so my vote: Baffin island - polar star couloir (images Brad Barlage):
http://www.summitpost.org/view_objec...bject_id=45452
http://www.summitpost.org/view_objec...bject_id=45447
From http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/r...sun-spire.html
"Polar Sun Spire is located on the western coast of the central section of Baffin Island. The closest town in a small Inuit settlement called Clyde River which is a 3-5 day walk or a full 1 hour flight away." Go get it boyz!
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01-17-2007, 09:22 PM #170
Love this thread, I like to see it on the front page so I will add a little stoke of my own
Grizzly Couloir, not too far from Loveland Pass and with fewer unprepared snowboarders in it
If carrots got you drunk; rabbits would be fucked up.
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01-17-2007, 09:44 PM #171
Yay for Banff stoke. Nice pics of 3/4, temple and cascade. Any picture of Canmore/Grassi couloir???
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01-17-2007, 10:10 PM #172Registered User
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Sweet. Here's my line.
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01-17-2007, 11:26 PM #173
Combatant Couloir- Waddington Coast Range BCLast edited by Researcher; 01-20-2007 at 05:21 PM. Reason: photo
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01-17-2007, 11:59 PM #174Registered User
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Mendel
enough said
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01-18-2007, 01:23 AM #175
I HEART Couloirs!!!!
Why isnt this thread in the hall of fame yet????
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