Went back to Nebo for another attempt at skiing the NW Couloir. Summitted Nebo a couple years back, but did not ski the Couloir due to windloading.
Started out with a quaint group of seven. Suprisingly, this was the best moving big group I have ever been out with. No screwing around, just constant movement. Rare in a big group.
Nebo requires a bit of walking, starting around 6,000ft with the summit around 11,900. It's our Utah 14'er.
After about 2,000ft, you leave the road and enter destruction zone deluxe for the next 2,000ft.
Eventually safety is found in some big old growth.
We reached the saddle and the deck dropped with winds rapidly increasing.
We continued within about 500ft and 30 minutes of the summit. With the brutal winds and no vis, we opted to bail.
Not ready to leave, we skied 1400ft into the trees, then lapped a fun ridge in nice snow. Chris and Jon busted out the fuel.
Powstash enjoying himself.
Then it was back up for a look at other terrain.
Powstash finding excellent turning conditions on this west aspect. We had already skied north and east, but for some reason, west was money.
Powstash again.
Our west run ran into this ridiculously huge bowl.
After a brief rest, we decided to approach our objective (NW couloir) from below, and just skin up it.
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