best couloir in north america?

**JayPowHound** · 09-10-2009, 06:18 PM

Sorry if this is a repost, but I just scanned this entire thread and I'm pretty sure I didn't see mention of anything on Mt. Washington in N.H. Maybe not the BEST but I think things like Cathedral, Dodges, and Dutchess deserve at least a nod, not to mention the stuff in the GOS, GG, and beyond.

**Meanfruit** · 09-11-2009, 12:11 AM

Sorry, no offence to the fine technical skiers who have been putting Mt. Washington and related "Steeps of the East" on the thread, but ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME! West of Ole Miss, that stuff is seen oh, about every 5 minutes on a jaunt around no fewer then 6 states and 3 provinces(ok, ones a territory)and that's just the foothills. Sorry, not. even. close. Pick up a coffee table book of the Rockies and actually look at the pictures. I mean, some of the best skiers/climbers in Europe have been moving here for 100 years. From the HOLY SHIT Alps. Ya, it's pretty gnar. Then again, some of the best skiers here are from the East, so whathefuckdoiknow

**Alpentele** · 09-11-2009, 04:38 PM

^^^^I agree...I think there needs to be at least some rock wall to call something a couloir.

Not too much better, but its all I have photos of- Star Mtn. CO

**GravityPilot** · 09-12-2009, 12:41 AM

Here's one in CO. Figured this would have been mentioned. The North Couloir on Pacific Pk. Sometimes a huge scary cornice, sometimes pow, all in how you catch it. We skied it this last spring as part of a traverse.

The very next week

**skiski** · 09-14-2009, 05:18 PM

http://www.summitpost.org/images/original/110222.JPG

I think it goes. Would be a long approach. Anyone know if it's been skied?

**passholer** · 09-14-2009, 07:15 PM

here's a short shot,elbows wide,sometimes it goes,can be ice under all that snow,1/4pipe exit.fall here and no one will find you,this time was good.its in granite.calling it "the oreo coolie"

**yuckster** · 09-14-2009, 07:54 PM

best cooler in North America is the one that contains my beer!

**yuckster** · 09-14-2009, 08:00 PM

Originally Posted by JayPowHound

Sorry if this is a repost, but I just scanned this entire thread and I'm pretty sure I didn't see mention of anything on Mt. Washington in N.H. Maybe not the BEST but I think things like Cathedral, Dodges, and Dutchess deserve at least a nod, not to mention the stuff in the GOS, GG, and beyond.

As a fellow East Coast skier, I appreciate the stoke and the photo of Hillman's Highway in what look like prime conditions. But in good conscience, I must make take issue with you even mentioning GOS in a thread that is about coolers. There are no coolers in GOS (other than the one that contains the beer I hauled up), just wide open spaces interspersed with pesky EC shrubbery.

**randosteve** · 09-14-2009, 08:15 PM

Originally Posted by skiski

http://www.summitpost.org/images/original/110222.JPG

I think it goes. Would be a long approach. Anyone know if it's been skied?

I stood at the top of this line this spring...but opted to ski the more "classic" route for my first descent off the peak. Yes...it has been skied. Yes...I will be back to ski it. Looking down said line.

**backside180** · 09-14-2009, 09:09 PM

Oh man I cant believe my gnarley big mountain line hasn't been mentioned yet

**skiski** · 09-15-2009, 01:55 PM

Originally Posted by randosteve

I stood at the top of this line this spring...but opted to ski the more "classic" route for my first descent off the peak. Yes...it has been skied. Yes...I will be back to ski it. Looking down said line.

Cool. Thanks for posting the pic. Never been up there with skis, but have peered down it in the summer and would really like to get up there with skis. What's the more classic ski line, something near the common summer ascent route?

**randosteve** · 09-15-2009, 03:33 PM

Originally Posted by skiski

What's the more classic ski line, something near the common summer ascent route?

IMHO...yes...since you stare at it from the road.

**Karl Stall** · 03-20-2011, 01:39 PM

bump......

**Shredhead** · 03-20-2011, 03:19 PM

Originally Posted by Karl Stall

bump......

Shit, I was expecting a picture of you airing into Bell Cord!

In town? Back Friday, see you @ Pepper?

**gpcharles** · 03-20-2011, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by Meanfruit

Sorry, no offence to the fine technical skiers who have been putting Mt. Washington and related "Steeps of the East" on the thread, but ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME! West of Ole Miss, that stuff is seen oh, about every 5 minutes on a jaunt around no fewer then 6 states and 3 provinces(ok, ones a territory)and that's just the foothills. Sorry, not. even. close. Pick up a coffee table book of the Rockies and actually look at the pictures. I mean, some of the best skiers/climbers in Europe have been moving here for 100 years. From the HOLY SHIT Alps. Ya, it's pretty gnar. Then again, some of the best skiers here are from the East, so whathefuckdoiknow

Originally Posted by Alpentele

^^^^I agree...I think there needs to be at least some rock wall to call something a couloir.

amen brother! all we got are gullys

and dikes

but no coolers.

since all the entries are disqualified automatically since they don't compare with the foothills of the alps and the rockies, i won't bother divulging location. just hoping for a note in the appendix about a nonexistant (perhaps huntington) gully on mountain washington in some coffee table book by a big name athlete sometime

**raisingarizona13** · 03-20-2011, 11:38 PM

A friend of mine gave me a picture of The Pinner a few years back, it's somewhere just south of Mammoth and it has to be one of the sickest couliors in NA. It's narrow and has rock lined walls for 4000 vertical feet. I always wanted to get out to ski it but I never have, anyone have any pictures or skied it?

**gimpy** · 03-21-2011, 12:06 AM

^^^^check out the 2011 eastern sierra thread on i believe the last page for some pinner shots. its on mt laurel

**StraightChuter** · 03-21-2011, 11:05 AM

Originally Posted by boarderline

Question for the BC minded Utards out there: Other than the Y Couloir and the Grunge Couloir, what are some of your other favorites?

Little Pine couloir is the most aesthetic line on the north side of LCC - access and skiing is about as easy as it gets. Park at the WP trailhead, cross the road, ski/skin a 1/4 mile and you are at the base.

Lisa Falls is five-star classic, but a bit more involved. Both Lisa Falls and Little Pine are south facing, so it can be tricky to get them in good conditions.

**Lomax** · 03-21-2011, 11:49 AM

someone mentioned it, I didnt see the pic though
certainly not the best, but a damn fun one.
Big Couloir, Big Sky MT aka Schmidty's
on the right

**raisingarizona13** · 03-21-2011, 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by gimpy

^^^^check out the 2011 eastern sierra thread on i believe the last page for some pinner shots. its on mt laurel

Have you skied it Gimpy? If so is it a worthy contender for Best NA Coulior?

**teledance** · 03-23-2011, 07:52 AM

Never made it but it's on my to do list and I know it has been skied. Haystack Mtn just off I 15 South of Poky. Can't miss the line.

**puma** · 03-23-2011, 02:15 PM

So which one won?

**SkiJunky05** · 08-06-2013, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by puma

So which one won?

The "I googled something and a TGR thread popped up and an hour later I remembered why I love internet forums" bump.

**BGnight** · 08-06-2013, 03:57 PM

Would be better if this was just a lower 48 thread. Way too many coolys in Canada, AK and Baffin, etc...

Anyway, here's one of the most classic and one of the most underrated/unknown couloirs in CA:
Emerson:

Cardinal (middle right. the sliver at the top goes):