sooo the question i have for all you folks: what is the longest couloir in north merica????
i am thinking it must be in canada because everything there is measured in meters which as you all know is 3 times bigger then a foot.
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sooo the question i have for all you folks: what is the longest couloir in north merica????
i am thinking it must be in canada because everything there is measured in meters which as you all know is 3 times bigger then a foot.
Scheelite or Messner? Both are stated as roughly 6,000 vertical from what I could find. Or maybe something else in AK...?Quote:
Originally Posted by gimpy
If I was still in my twenties, single, and without a child I would be there in a heart beat!Quote:
Originally Posted by garyfromterrace
Big eyes couloir off East Red Peak in the Gore Range
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Image courtesy of Stan Wagon
Nice thread.
Don't think this line on Mantis Peak has been skied yet
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From John Scurlock's treasure chest
I wish skiing coulior's was in vogue for ski porn these days.
You been making your own ski porn for a while now. ;) But if you really need more check out Ausralias with Davenport. Just watched again. Awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by neufox47
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Beauty! Not skied yet? really? That's hard to believe! How big is the approach?Quote:
Originally Posted by d542east
If it's doable I might be into a road trip this winter.
Not the best, but great couloirs ... with a different perspective because many of them have been mentioned before:
Bloody
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty...rer/bloody.jpg
Red Slate (top right), North Peak (center middle though not over 1500'), Emerson (bottom middle)
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty...ern_sierra.jpg
This thread is getting me seriously pumped for the season. Great pics! Thanks everyone. Have not skied a lot of couloirs but I have bagged a couple beauties in the Smithers area (ice cooler, Maya's couloir). There's just something about couloirs. I'll put up pictures of the above mentioned couloirs when I get a chance.
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Originally Posted by neufox47
it's just not cool anymore. nor is it that core compared to the shit kids are doing in the park and pipe. that shit takes real skillz and ballz. couloirs (fuck I hate that word, much prefer gullies and chutes:)) are just narrow steep confined places that only require sometimes carefully placed turns and gravitational pull. not hard. turn left turn right with maybe a huck thrown in.
looking forward to skiing some chutes and gullies with ya this winter.
rog
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Points North, Cordova, AK. From left to right: Coogan's, Oz and Sweetleaf. Did the two on the right; Oz, 3000 vert, clean fall line, super fun. That was a great day!
Oz is great and on my list!Quote:
Originally Posted by Eastern Sierra Skier
Attachment 141360 Mt Harrison,
Reading this thread, it's interesting to see the different varieties of couloirs. Intricate, twisting doglegs, arrow-straight drops, couloirs that are more ramp-y than anything else... Anyway, they're all fun. Best? I don't know, but this was my favorite last season, mostly because I've looked at it so long, and it's been a tough one to get. Terminator 3: Off the summit to a rappel.
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...s2-4-09056.jpg
A view from just below the top with Ale
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And those Anticline formation couloirs in canada look amazing!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ale_capone
wow string what a nice line, mmmmm, Attachment 141547
Mmmm. Mother of an approach in winter though, no?Quote:
Originally Posted by skian_
Who skis a Rockies 11'er in winter? Someone who really knows their shit/wants to die?
Ah I remember the story's about Treman skiing in there during the early 90's.Quote:
Originally Posted by goldenboy
Snow Creek, Mt. San Jacinto, California.
It's a grind. The climb is over 9,500 ft vert. The ski down is over 5,500 ft vert which is a nice reward.
http://images.summitpost.org/original/190268.jpg
Sounds interesting. Did he get in there with the MSP guys or something? Apparently patrol used to ski it quite a bit, but always exiting right above the rap.Quote:
Originally Posted by RaisingArizona
WTF is this really? no way can this be tahoeQuote:
Originally Posted by huckasoreass
Bumping this awesome thread. Just read this whole damn thing instead of doing work for the last ~40 mins. Some of these are in serious need of pic updates though.
And god damn, I gotta get after it harder.
aren't you the guy that wants to move. check out the Red lodge thread. no shortage of big couloirs .Quote:
Originally Posted by mbillie1
Haha... who is this moron?Quote:
Originally Posted by angrysasquatch
The best couloirs run off the summit.
Tumbling Peak (600m couloir, ~1000 summit to glacier toe)
http://i59.tinypic.com/23wnodf.jpg
Mt Farnham (biggest mtn in Purcells) -900m couloir. When properly timed, skiable off the summit
http://i60.tinypic.com/2qi0egn.jpg
Arras mountain ~700m of couloir before the steep summit face, 1300m summit- flat ground
http://i58.tinypic.com/26ro0.jpg
Best couloir in north america? nope. But nice to visit the Dolomites just an hour from home in Terrace B.C. ;)
June 2, 2014. 3300 foot run, 2500 hundo of which between rock walls...twas a blast.
Of course, in these parts, you gotta pay to play; minor epic on the hike out battling ski-on-pack unfriendly b.c. bush, black flies, mosquitos, horseflies and prit near 30 degree heat.
The ski down has been about 1500' the past few winters.Quote:
Originally Posted by MuchosPixels
I'll be down that way again next April. Always happy to find a partner. My preferred route is a car shuttle. With a tram ride you only have a 2000' approach over a few mellow miles. The exit will still be a bitch even in epic years tho
Best couloir in the Midwest... the whereabouts of which are unknown to me but suspected to be north, eh?
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Originally Posted by garyfromterrace
Guido! What did you name it?Quote:
Originally Posted by swissiphic
Well Gary, in honor of another Terrace expatriate we both know and love, even though as far as I know the guy hasn't even seen this couloir, we called it simply.... Pineapple Pete. Maybe 'cause the day was so hot and tropical and the cooler faces generally south? Just seemed right.Quote:
Originally Posted by garyfromterrace
In the Northeast I believe the Chimney on Katahdin takes the cake. There are some great lines in the Chic Chocs and in the Presidentials with comparable skiing quality, but the setting of Katahdin is on another level:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-V...561-no/k77.jpg
Its the line right of the left-most sub-peak:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-4...561-no/k21.jpg
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-p...561-no/k88.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5...561-no/k86.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-J...561-no/k79.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-d...561-no/k73.jpg
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-f...561-no/k72.jpg
Very nice! Congrats, that looks committing!Quote:
Originally Posted by I've seen black diamonds!
Wicked, I approve! Congrats again, you assembled the perfect crew to slay PP.Quote:
Originally Posted by swissiphic
16 mile approach to the hut is worth it. That would be ml242 and Cat in January in the pics. I was across the cirque shooting pics and hunkering down whenever the rain/snow/wind triggered a wave of sluff (over an otherwise bomber snow pack). Skied a nice, but far less impressive line between boulders and huge sheets of water ice with D-Roc and Lynchdogger:Quote:
Originally Posted by garyfromterrace
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-e...561-no/k65.jpg
Attachment 281432 On our flight out got a good look at the Tiedemann group— and those are some badass couloirs. Arrow on the Combatant I believe The one between Tiedemann and Asperity is longer. Low tide this season
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Yikes very low tide!Quote:
Originally Posted by Maximus Farcisimus
Great thread bump. Best? I don't know, but a favorite of mine, almost 3k':
https://14erskiers.com/blog/wp-conte...-watermark.jpg
Combatant from this low snow year - reposted from Maximus Farcissus to compareQuote:
Originally Posted by Researcher
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yeah that was a nice bump
N face of Philistine - couloir is about 400m. Face is 1000m
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N face of Howard - couloir part we booted was also about 400m. Entire face is 750m
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Mixing it up - just out side Vancouver - Brunswick Peak - maybe 150m couloir?
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