The FIFTY

**BFD** · 05-13-2019, 12:39 PM

Only cost Larry Csonka $5000.

**Maximus Farcisimus** · 05-13-2019, 02:27 PM

30’C here in Pemby this week, ski season is mostly done so I’m back on the Interwebz, hadn’t seen this thread before.

Cody here’s a couple pics from Combatant from 2 weeks ago. Less than ideal conditions this season.

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**goldenboy** · 05-13-2019, 03:23 PM

Damn, maybe it's a good thing you skied Joffre this year. Twisting couloir is gone. I'm sure Pemby locals will start posting pics of a massive landslide shortly...

**el hefe** · 05-13-2019, 03:42 PM

just saw Cody's insta post about that!!! Holy shit that is a crazy slide.

**mtnjam** · 05-13-2019, 03:45 PM

That landslide IS massive based on the photo Cody just posted on FB. Crazy. It looks like the mountain is steaming on one of the photos, like the dust still settling. The debris flow looks other worldly. Devastation.

**t.odd** · 05-13-2019, 03:45 PM

re. Joffre, that's fuggin' nuts!!! man, I thought having something like Meager happen in my lifetime was something, but two massive landslides within such close proximity is extremely wild

**Norseman** · 05-13-2019, 03:47 PM

Wow, yeah, huge slide.

**rwalk** · 05-13-2019, 03:52 PM

Originally Posted by Maximus Farcisimus

30’C here in Pemby this week, ski season is mostly done so I’m back on the Interwebz, hadn’t seen this thread before.

Cody here’s a couple pics from Combatant from 2 weeks ago. Less than ideal conditions this season.

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That isn't the Combatant couloir. The image you posted is the right arrow, the Combatant couloir is the left arrow, which is out of sight in those photos. Makes a pretty big difference as Combatant does not have the glacial features that the other couloir does

**Norseman** · 05-13-2019, 03:59 PM

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**abraham** · 05-13-2019, 04:09 PM

Holy shit

**TAFKALVS** · 05-13-2019, 04:11 PM

yeah, no kidding. If you were anywhere it that valley you'd be so fucked.

**kathleenturneroverdrive** · 05-13-2019, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by Alkasquawlik

It is by far the least fun part of this project. The difference between Dav's project and mine first and foremost is "Red Bull" at the front. Throw that name in front of an Forest Service officer and they'll immediately knee jerk to denying you any sort of permission.

Massive landslide discussion > film permitting nuances, but I thought Dav and team shot a bunch of skiing w/out a permit. Then months later they tried to secure a permit retroactively to use that footage in his commerical film. Could be the permitting folks just wanted nothing to do with a “Red Bull” film, but I think he would have been SOL either way after shooting so much w/out a permit.

**grinch** · 05-13-2019, 07:10 PM

That landslide is quite an event. Shit is massive! Idk what the approach was like before but should be pretty straightforward now

**t.odd** · 05-13-2019, 08:01 PM

another shot of the slide from Ministry of Transportion avy techs

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**LeeLau** · 05-13-2019, 08:05 PM

Here's a better shot of Joffre after and before. After shot from Jamie. Before shot I took around 2010

Twisting Couloir gone. Looks like that whole block of choss fell off the NE face. On the bright side access improved!

**Norseman** · 05-13-2019, 08:43 PM

Man look at that ice hanging up there.

Access? Up the debris flow? Fuck that. The flake is gonna keep peelin for a few, yeah?

**LeeLau** · 05-13-2019, 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by Norseman

Man look at that ice hanging up there.

Access? Up the debris flow? Fuck that. The flake is gonna keep peelin for a few, yeah?

Some Aussie and/or citiot will bootpack straight up it. Guaranteed!

**TahoeJ** · 05-13-2019, 08:57 PM

Originally Posted by LeeLau

Here's a better shot of Joffre after and before. After shot from Jamie. Before shot I took around 2010

Twisting Couloir gone. Looks like that whole block of choss fell off the NE face. On the bright side access improved!

That’s the shot I wanted to see. Holy shit.

**doebedoe** · 05-13-2019, 09:15 PM

So Twisting Couloir is now a ski BASE line?

**Maximus Farcisimus** · 05-13-2019, 10:03 PM

Went up the summer trail this afternoon to check it out. Once I got the drone up 1500’ and saw this, I bailed and went out the long way. No need to go back down the drainage under that slurpee of death. Looks like Lee already posted my other pic

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**Maximus Farcisimus** · 05-13-2019, 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by rwalk

That isn't the Combatant couloir. The image you posted is the right arrow, the Combatant couloir is the left arrow, which is out of sight in those photos. Makes a pretty big difference as Combatant does not have the glacial features that the other couloir does

Yeah, I was reading and looking over the 50 Classics book before I left and Google Earth too. Wasn’t sure. Thought it may have been the bigger of the ones up there, looks like Combatant is 500m according to Google Earth. Did get a glance at it the following day from lower down the NW ridge. Hope someone is bagging that other one far right.

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**LeeLau** · 05-13-2019, 11:14 PM

Originally Posted by Maximus Farcisimus

Went up the summer trail this afternoon to check it out. Once I got the drone up 1500’ and saw this, I bailed and went out the long way. No need to go back down the drainage under that slurpee of death. Looks like Lee already posted my other pic

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If that happened in winter there would.be a lot of corpses. .wow

**Maximus Farcisimus** · 05-13-2019, 11:21 PM

I think this woulda been it, top hidden left the arrow?

**rwalk** · 05-14-2019, 06:52 AM

Originally Posted by Maximus Farcisimus

Yeah, I was reading and looking over the 50 Classics book before I left and Google Earth too. Wasn’t sure. Thought it may have been the bigger of the ones up there, looks like Combatant is 500m according to Google Earth. Did get a glance at it the following day from lower down the NW ridge. Hope someone is bagging that other one far right.

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We were planning to make the trip this year to ski all of those couloirs up that col, but the low tide year had us postpone to next year Seems like the right call after seeing these current photos, although I guess I'm not quite sure how well-bridged those crevasses get on a typical year, they seem pretty open compared to what I'd expect to see.

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**LeeLau** · 05-14-2019, 08:38 AM

Originally Posted by rwalk

We were planning to make the trip this year to ski all of those couloirs up that col, but the low tide year had us postpone to next year Seems like the right call after seeing these current photos, although I guess I'm not quite sure how well-bridged those crevasses get on a typical year, they seem pretty open compared to what I'd expect to see.

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The crevasses are usually well bridged. It's shockingly low tide this year in the Wadd Homathko Niut