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Thread: Sliver Couloir 1/22/22
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01-25-2022, 01:52 PM #1
Sliver Couloir 1/22/22
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01-25-2022, 02:14 PM #2Registered User
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Definitely a Conversation worth having. Last spring during a Storm Day we were one of the first groups up buffalo to ski the silver. After summiting and riding to the entrance there was now three groups there at the entrance transitioning. They let us go first but we all got on the same radio channel and radioed back up after we had cleared the exit then the next group dropped. Maybe at popular trailheads have a radio channel posted to let everyone know and be on the same page. I think that worked out well in this particular case after hanging at the trailhead the later groups said there were upwards of 20 people looking to ski that line and not everyone was waiting their turn and this was a stormy socked in day. With the crowds and increased popularity the margins of safety are becoming thinner and thinner.
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01-25-2022, 09:57 PM #3
Just to clarify this thread for future posters: The OP was referring to the Sliver Couloir on Nez Perce Peak in Grand Teton National Park, not the Silver Couloir on Buffalo Mountain in Colorado.
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01-26-2022, 10:14 AM #4Registered User
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I definitely understood that it was Silver on Nez Perce just adding to the convo about popular lines and the ever crowding backcountry all over the west
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01-26-2022, 10:40 AM #5
so no comment from the boarder i take it? sounds like he left during the rescue?
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01-26-2022, 10:59 AM #6
I don't get why they didn't talk to the snowboarder when he passed them. Probably an unwritten rule in Jackson not to talk to anyone else.
Common radio channels that are in use in Telluride and elsewhere might have helped as well. https://www.skimag.com/gear/backcoun...ies-explained/
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01-26-2022, 09:32 PM #7Registered User
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01-27-2022, 09:03 AM #8
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01-27-2022, 09:06 AM #9
Any shit smeared on the snowboarders door handles?
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01-27-2022, 06:02 PM #10Registered User
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This is another reason why I don't ski stuff like this any more.
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01-27-2022, 06:20 PM #11User
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01-29-2022, 03:32 PM #12
The Eiger north face was first climbed by two Austrians and two Germans who started the climb a day apart and joined up on the mountain to continue the climb as one team.
Does that sort of thing happen in the mountains any more.
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01-30-2022, 07:50 AM #13
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02-01-2022, 12:56 PM #14Registered User
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02-01-2022, 04:01 PM #15Hucked to flat once
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Whole thing is weird. Maybe it's different in other parts of the world but if someone is digging a pit, I like to stop and see what they're seeing. Never had anybody say no. Also like to volunteer my day's plans first and say I'm happy to talk modifying if my plan doesn't jive with their plan.
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