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" http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/a...1&d=1252976326
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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" http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/a...1&d=1252976326
best cooler in North America is the one that contains my beer!
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by JayPowHound
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by skiski
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3468/...24bb7edf_o.jpg
Oh man I cant believe my gnarley big mountain line hasn't been mentioned yet
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9135876...85339/sizes/l/
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?Quote:
Originally Posted by randosteve
IMHO...yes...since you stare at it from the road.Quote:
Originally Posted by skiski
bump......
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Originally Posted by Karl Stall
Shit, I was expecting a picture of you airing into Bell Cord!
In town? Back Friday, see you @ Pepper?
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Originally Posted by Meanfruit
amen brother! all we got are gullysQuote:
Originally Posted by Alpentele
http://www.famousinternetskiers.com/...P_CG_final.jpg
and dikes
http://www.famousinternetskiers.com/...e/IMG_0325.jpg
but no coolers.
http://www.famousinternetskiers.com/...3/IMG_4144.jpg
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
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?
^^^^check out the 2011 eastern sierra thread on i believe the last page for some pinner shots. its on mt laurel
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by boarderline
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.
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 righthttp://lh6.ggpht.com/_uL6A2Ft9p2A/S8...c/P1010174.JPG
Have you skied it Gimpy? If so is it a worthy contender for Best NA Coulior?Quote:
Originally Posted by gimpy
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by puma
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:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n..._1900015_n.jpg
Cardinal (middle right. the sliver at the top goes):
https://sphotos-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/h...27995227_n.jpg
Yikes. Vintage 2005 coolie-porn Under the I posting.
Good to see Aemmers 3/4 and grandaddy in here already. I'll add some Golden stoke
Dogtooth ridge couloirs
http://i39.tinypic.com/i3ezxu.jpg
Mt Arras couloirs
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5455/7...9c7c8a36_b.jpg
And why not, Comstock Couloir
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8021/7...601738d8_b.jpg
Left Gully. Mount Washington. NH.
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.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3426/5...689ea7b6_o.jpg
Another Front range quickie: Skywalker couloir down Arapahoe Pk.
I would add red slate north couloir and emerson north couloir. Both on the east side of sierra.
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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.Quote:
Originally Posted by dark_star
rog
God I love the formations up in canadiaQuote:
Originally Posted by angrysasquatch
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HPF_Vvwxa2...photo+(32).JPG
Mt Chester. http://www.globalalpine.com/
This easily wins this thread so farQuote:
Originally Posted by angrysasquatch
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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^^^^^talk about straight down the elevator shaft :the_finge
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.
^^^^^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
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
http://thesnowtroopers.com/images/20...120601adj.jpeg
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.
http://cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/500/tc15.jpg
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.
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/...psaca3c5f8.jpg
photo by me.
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/...ps095787f2.jpg
lame trip report by me.
http://www.turns-all-year.com/skiing...?topic=28193.0
Newc Couloir off Buck Mountain with video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFdklr6SNLw
http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/2286/s4wq.jpg
http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/7472/mals.jpg
I'm just going to use one I've been down...
Gnar Couloir at Silverton, CO:
http://www.tr.slaythegnar.com/Silver..._12_12_022.jpg
http://www.tr.slaythegnar.com/Silver..._12_12_030.jpg
Oh, how did I forget: The Funnel of Death
http://allcanadaphotos.com/_snippets...L_acp59797.jpg
The east obviously comes up short in this stuff, but here's another I had my eye on:
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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
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Lo-Iu5cZeV...0/L1070169.JPG
http://cdn.epicski.com/b/b6/b69104d0_Heavenly11s.jpg
(not my pics)
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by ml242
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