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The first one was nice and wide and the snow was as good as we had hoped, so we decided to make another lap and work our way down the ridge. The next couloir was a bit more serious, and involved my second no-fall zone of the day. A couple turns in nice creamy pow led to a narrow rocky ridge above a very painful-or-fatal-if-you-fell cliff that we had to downclimb to enter the couloir. Then, once we all got into the couloir, we still had to downclimb the top section before we could get to the skiable part. Sweet! There is nothing quite like downclimbing what might be class 5 rock and snow with gloves and skis on to make you focus.