best couloir in north america?

[angrysasquatch]

Good to see Aemmers 3/4 and grandaddy in here already. I'll add some Golden stoke

Dogtooth ridge couloirs


Mt Arras couloirs


And why not, Comstock Couloir

[ex-powderbroker]

Left Gully. Mount Washington. NH.

[hatchgreenchile]

Aesthetically, San Joaquin near Tride has always blown me away. Someday...

Didn't see this one posted. It's a popular quickie near the Front Range, good ol' Dead Elk Couloir and Dragons Tail Couloir on the right peak.

[El Guay]

Another Front range quickie: Skywalker couloir down Arapahoe Pk.

[rod9301]

I would add red slate north couloir and emerson north couloir. Both on the east side of sierra.

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[icelanticskier]

PIPELINE, NH





rog

[dark_star]

This thread gives me warm fuzzy feelings inside.

[icelanticskier]

This thread gives me warm fuzzy feelings inside.

right? lots of nice shots! maybe above average November snows will bring George into play earlier than the typical December timeframe.

rog

[HikeforTurns]

Good to see Aemmers 3/4 and grandaddy in here already. I'll add some Golden stoke

Dogtooth ridge couloirs

God I love the formations up in canadia


Mt Chester. http://www.globalalpine.com/

[BGnight]

And why not, Comstock Couloir

This easily wins this thread so far

[D-Roc]

Agreed with Rog on this one probably the best one in new england despite the exclamation mark of an ice bulge at the end lol.

Honorable Mentions for New England:

Central Gully - Huntington Ravine
Seven Gully - Kings Ravine
Tusk - VT
Mt Webster Couloirs (only in good snow years)

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[cat in january]

^^^^^talk about straight down the elevator shaft



Talking about Comstock in picture above


D-roc great thing about the pictures Rog linked is you can see tracks coming out below the ice bulge





An excellent thread revival.

[icelanticskier]

^^^^^ya that was early may on an ok snow year. the bulge is always some sort of techy, sometimes mindfuck, sometimes bigger huck than you'd like to zero room for a fuckup landing.

best couloir can't be an easy link turn wide open steep pow run. gotta have some real pucker high consequence sections where the pussies will rap and the bold will huck, or manage to plinko their way down without removing skis. pure.

rog

[Ale_capone]

I'll add a few from the Washington Cascades. My favorite three from this past season. Maybe not quite as pretty as some of the above.


Bandit Peak,Black Hole Couloir. First skied by Phil Phortier and Ryan Lurie
over 3,000' plus arpon. lower half is around 40, upper half reaching 50.
long day trip. overnights better.

photo by John Scurlock


classic
http://www.mtnphil.com/Bandit/Bandit.html

my third time, best conditions ever.
http://thesnowtroopers.com/2013/band...khole-couloir/


Dragontail peak, Triple Couloirs, Stuart Range. First skied by Ross Peritore.

3 seprate couloirs of around 900' feet each? 45ish?
requires rapelling between each couloir.
long day trip

couloirs are somewhat visable in this shot.


epic length trip report with my near death experience.
http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubb...Number=1093782



Bonanza Peak, Beowulf Couloir. 2,200' 50+ degrees to the apron..
crux of the approach is the boat and bus ride. Can be done in a day from there.

photo by Jason Hummel during his and Kyle miller's epic american alps traverse.


photo by me.


lame trip report by me.
http://www.turns-all-year.com/skiing...?topic=28193.0

[pappag]

Newc Couloir off Buck Mountain with video

[skier666]

I'm just going to use one I've been down...

Gnar Couloir at Silverton, CO:

[angrysasquatch]

Oh, how did I forget: The Funnel of Death

[ex-powderbroker]

The east obviously comes up short in this stuff, but here's another I had my eye on:

[PlayItLeo]

Don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but Heaven's Eleven on the Little Wasatch Face in Tride is just ridiculous. Don't forget to bang a left at the bottom.

pucker up




(not my pics)

[icelanticskier]

The east obviously comes up short in this stuff, but here's another I had my eye on:

tis a nice line fer sure. prolly skied it 6-8 times in my trips there. starts out on the end of the ridge with a nice ramp to progressively steep right bank rollover. then it goes left, gets wider and the further left you go the line gets near vertical making for a super fun big steep fall away turn. then things straighten out and right down the gut this fun wind lip thingy forms where you can make yer turns up and over from one side to the other to the big wide apron at the bottom. probably about 1400 vert i'm guessing. a good one fer sure.

the set back bowl lookers left (we call it second day bowl) is super hero fun with great mandatory air cornice drops the further lookers right you go.

rog

[LeeLau]

Combatant Couloir- Waddington Coast Range BC

Comstock is 1300m vert iirc. Combatant is 1450. FASP is 1400m. The couloirs off Joffre Peak are all about 1000m to give them scale. Aussie is "only" 600m.

So far if one of the criteria for best is vert Combatant has to take it.

[bodywhomper]

Comstock is 1300m vert iirc. Combatant is 1450. FASP is 1400m. The couloirs off Joffre Peak are all about 1000m to give them scale. Aussie is "only" 600m.

So far if one of the criteria for best is vert Combatant has to take it.

there are couloirs in the eastern sierra that are longer than those....

[Cosmic Suncloud]

Comstock is 1300m vert iirc. Combatant is 1450.

Comstock: about 700m
Combatant: about 550m

rad lines for sure

[Dhelihiker]

TC is not gnar by any means but very cool non the less.

[LeeLau]

Comstock: about 700m
Combatant: about 550m

rad lines for sure

huh - how did i get those so wrong.

FASP is 1100m so got that wrong too. Alzheimers early onset