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12-08-2005, 07:14 PM #1
best couloir in north america?
criteria: more than 1500' of vert, a sustained pitch of at least 40 degrees and a time commitment of no more than 3 days.
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12-08-2005, 07:29 PM #2Registered User
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Originally Posted by covertElvis has left the building
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12-08-2005, 07:32 PM #3
baffin island is definitely world class but pretty much requires at least a month. lets say the line has to be three days tops round trip from the nearest place you can buy a bottle of whiskey...
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12-08-2005, 07:33 PM #4Registered User
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you should break it up between lift accessible, day trip accessible, and multi-day tour accessible.
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12-08-2005, 07:34 PM #5
Lake Chutes, Summit County, end of discussion.
"If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough."
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12-08-2005, 07:38 PM #6Funky But Chic
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"Speed is just a question of money, how fast do you want to go?"
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12-08-2005, 07:42 PM #7
That one that everyone in Utah has done.
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12-08-2005, 07:43 PM #8Funky But Chic
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The one Lance beatered down.
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12-08-2005, 07:46 PM #9
superstar couloir on james peak?
Ive looked down it - nice and sketch- only a 4hr skin"Verily, my folly has grown tall in the mountains." - Fredrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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12-08-2005, 07:50 PM #10
where's james peak? front range?
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12-08-2005, 07:54 PM #11Registered User
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how has no one said corbets
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12-08-2005, 07:56 PM #12Originally Posted by iceman
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12-08-2005, 07:58 PM #13Registered User
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Hypodermic Needle In little cottonwood canyon is good
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12-08-2005, 08:01 PM #14
scary technical
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12-08-2005, 08:04 PM #15
morain lake, lake louise, alberta
3300 ft, lake to glacier
glacier down
first 300ft goes 0 to 45/50 deg
next 2000 ft keeps it at 45/50 deg
1000 ft to lakeside
view looking up from lakeside in july/aug?
view from mount temple nearby. Col in right side of pic
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12-08-2005, 08:06 PM #16Originally Posted by covert
may 29 2004...
lots of people have climbed it...its is colorado...you figure out the rest
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12-08-2005, 08:06 PM #17
moraine lake, now we're getting somewhere. i was starting to think the internet was down in canadia
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12-08-2005, 08:06 PM #18
Mt. Moran, Skillet Glacier. 5500-6000 vert-45 degrees-two days. Best views possible.
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12-08-2005, 08:07 PM #19
this ones on my wish list:
australian couloir
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller
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12-08-2005, 08:17 PM #20
This is a kick ass thread.
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12-08-2005, 08:18 PM #21Originally Posted by Trackhead
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chugach...the obvious one just right of center
Matt Neuner dropping in
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12-08-2005, 08:22 PM #23
I was gonna call Skillet, but Trackhead beat me to it.
(not that I've skied it ...)
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12-08-2005, 08:24 PM #24
Superstar couloir, I've gazed down on that before, it looks like you make one turn and then fall off a 1,000 foot cliff. Awesome.
The best couloir in north america has to be the 2nd chute at A-Basin.
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12-08-2005, 08:25 PM #25
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mmmmm...
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