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02-26-2004, 03:34 PM #1
NW Couloir Pfeifferhorn Stoke (You'll need your Whippet)
With all the good stoke lately, here is some more.
A Wasatch classic. The NW Couloir and SE face of the Pfeifferhorn.
Skied the NW Couloir a month ago, and a couple times in the '98, also had some fun on the SE face in '98. The following are pictures from four different trips there.
The approach up the SE Face. Kind of scary avy potential at times. Looking back at the top of Maybird, White Pine, Red Pine, and eventually, the 'Bird.
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...-face-hike.jpg
Higher up on the SE Face on a successful NW Couloir trip.
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...ippet-hike.jpg
Skiing the SE Face under crusty conditions. On this trip, my friend with a lack of pre-season fitness (early November), crapped out on the approach ridge. He decided to sit on the ridge with my Canon and a 70-200mm lens and shoot photos. I summited and looked down the NW Couloir, drooling to come back. The SE face is still a fun ski. Just below me you can drop off the right side of the photo and ski a huge apron down into Maybird and out to the road.
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...face-turns.jpg
This is where you end up when your partners insist on approaching via Maybird and not White/Red Pine. Hans and Mark got screwed again by rolling the dice and climbing up this dead end couloir, having to 4th class it out made it exciting. We booted up another couloir that wasn't too bad. Better have Vibram soles here. Either way, the top of Maybird has some incredibly steep couloirs that you can run laps in. Sort of like Wolverine bowl near Brighton.
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...ans-climbs.jpg
A week after skiing the SE face my obsession with the Pfeifferhorn saw me here again, with shaky knees looking down the NW Couloir. First turns at the top of the NW Couloir. The first 30 feet are usually really bony. If it is too bony, you can hike down the N. Ridge for about 100 ft and enter on some steep snow covered ramps with huge exposure.
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...-turns-top.jpg
Getting closer to the rappel. The couloir gradually steepens to about 50 degrees right before the rappel. Get's real narrow and runneled the last 10 feet before the rap.
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...risten-top.jpg
The scary part is just the last 10 feet slipping up to the rappel. It's fun (and probably stupid) to try to make turns all the way to the anchors, and not side slip the last 30 feet. If you bail, you are going to tumble over a 60 foot cliff. When you arrive, clip the anchors with a long sling, take your skis off without dropping them, put 'em on your pack, and your outta there.
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...-at-rappel.jpg
I usually just bring 120 feet of ultra-light 7mm static line. No reason to haul a full on 60m rope for this route. Fun rap down a steep runnel to a reasonable spot to put your skis back on.
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...isten-raps.jpg
The lower couloir is quite steep initially, then it mellows to a consistent 40 degrees or so. In November it is about 8 feet wide in places, but later in the year it fills in to a big, wide fun couloir. This is a November shot, entering the narrows of the lower couloir.
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...al_narrows.jpg
The late, great, inspiring Hans Saari skiing the lower couloir.
https://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...hans-turns.jpg
The rest of the ski out Maybird is excellent. Get to the road and hitch a ride back to the trailhead. If the snowpack is lean, traverse east as soon as you exit the couloir and boot over the ridge and ski across the drainage back to the White/Red pine trail.
Or, if your not too exhausted and a sucker for punishment, ski across Maybird to the NW and boot up the Lightning Bolt Couloir to the top of Coalpit and rip 5k of vert down Hogum to the road. This is THE day in the Wasatch.
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02-26-2004, 03:36 PM #2
wow.
"When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible."
Mohandas Gandhi
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02-26-2004, 03:42 PM #3Registered User
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Nice stoke posts today...getting me excited for Silverton this weekend.
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02-26-2004, 03:43 PM #4
Kook, you have asteroid sized 'nads.
Props.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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02-26-2004, 03:45 PM #5
Holy cow. Way to get after it.
Are we part of the solution, or are we part of the pollution? -M.F.
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02-26-2004, 03:47 PM #6
Hot damn. Not messin around.
Makes Central on Cody look like sesame street.He who has the most fun wins!
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02-26-2004, 04:10 PM #7
Good shot from Pawprince.com of the NW couloir.
Goes down the obvious sun lit ramp, then the rap in the shadows where it pinches off, then down the shady couloir.
http://www.pawprince.com/2001smry/pffrhrn.jpg
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02-26-2004, 04:15 PM #8
Pfft. The backcountry is for booters.
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02-26-2004, 04:24 PM #9
Whippet? check
7mm rope? check
Bowling ball sized nads? uh, can anyone tell me where they rent these?
oooooooooooohhhhhh yea. Feel the pull of the Pfeifferhorn. Feel it.
Thanks for the new addition to my tick list Track. Xover, you ready?"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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02-26-2004, 04:28 PM #10
magnificent.. just as tough/scary/stoke inspiring as the tr's from flingle and tom!!
what's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?
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02-26-2004, 06:43 PM #11Lambaster
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Originally posted by powstash
Whippet? check
7mm rope? check
Bowling ball sized nads? uh, can anyone tell me where they rent these?
oooooooooooohhhhhh yea. Feel the pull of the Pfeifferhorn. Feel it.
Thanks for the new addition to my tick list Track. Xover, you ready?
My new BC "Ticklist" (screw the resort ticklist) - no particular order:
1. Tolcat Couloir - just cause I look at it every day - to Mt. Oly couloir
2. Day in Upper Silver Fork
3. Day in Upper Days Fork - taking the Hallway Coulie outta there
4. Upper Little Willow to Crows Foot outta there
5. Upper Big Willow to ??
6. Coalpit Gulch (possible ice climbing) to Coalpit Headwall
7. Y
8. Red Baldy and White Baldy
9. Weekend camping at base of Peiff ticking off lines
when tire of Wasatch BC
10. Ruby's
11. Oquirrhs
We best get busy Stash
Oh ya, almost forgot, thanks for fueling my adventurous stoke TH!!"... she'll never need a doctor; 'cause I check her out all day"
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02-27-2004, 01:34 AM #12
Sweet. That looks like a wicked line. Did you take any pegs incase those rusty old ones had fallen out?
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02-27-2004, 07:22 AM #13Originally posted by flingle:
Sweet. That looks like a wicked line. Did you take any pegs incase those rusty old ones had fallen out?
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02-27-2004, 07:44 AM #14
That's what I'm talkin' 'bout! I've heard this is a mother without snow. Have you bagged it in the summer? (Not that I wouldn't prefer a winter assult, just curious).
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02-27-2004, 07:46 AM #15
Great line.
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02-27-2004, 08:33 AM #16
OMG that made my knees shake....
shit dude....who are you?
you guys are SICKPoints on their own sitting way up high
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02-27-2004, 08:59 AM #17
Damn dude.
You are a sick, sick man.
Very cool.
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02-27-2004, 09:03 AM #18have not
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hell yeah for the wasatch stoke. t minus 15 hours.
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02-27-2004, 09:25 AM #19
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02-27-2004, 09:31 AM #20
Sorta related:
Saw a slideshow including Hans Sari last night...that man was one righteous brotha. RIP, Hans."All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
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02-27-2004, 01:39 PM #21
That's pretty damn cool. Damn good ski-climb, congrats
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02-27-2004, 02:52 PM #22Mr. Old Lady
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Very cool.
On a related note...What the hell is a "whippet"? I've heard the term in reference to sucking the air out of whip cream cans for a high, but I doubt this is the same thing.
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02-27-2004, 03:19 PM #23User
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self arrest thing for your pole.
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02-27-2004, 03:54 PM #24Originally posted by Xover
Been ready!!
My new BC "Ticklist" (screw the resort ticklist) - no particular order:
1. Tolcat Couloir - just cause I look at it every day - to Mt. Oly couloir
2. Day in Upper Silver Fork
3. Day in Upper Days Fork - taking the Hallway Coulie outta there
4. Upper Little Willow to Crows Foot outta there
5. Upper Big Willow to ??
6. Coalpit Gulch (possible ice climbing) to Coalpit Headwall
7. Y
8. Red Baldy and White Baldy
9. Weekend camping at base of Peiff ticking off lines
If this works, heres a shot of Coalpit in the summer:
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...c/fbe93dd4.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...b/fbe93d84.jpgFrench Fries!
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02-27-2004, 04:00 PM #25Registered User
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I skiied coalpit #4 two years ago, don't know if it's the same one, but it was really, really fun. I would be up for doing it again.
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