Hayden Peak Couloir 11-16-04

[Trackhead]

Nice one fellas, you're killin me! Looks like you were just around the corner from the one couloir we climbed last winter--the 'Mountaineering Couloir'. Same exact view from Hayden, looks sick, can't believe it's that good in Nov.

I was hoping to get out there while it was still car/truck accessible but probably not gonna happen after this weekend sounds like. I'll just have to rely on other people's sleds from now on Trackhead <ahem!>

Anyway I got my extremo mountain gear in the mail today: axe and crampons, + now have AT boots with Vibram soles all to at least somewhat lessen the pucker factor in places like that

Rides via Polaris for anyone with a Vibram 'soul'.

[Twoplanker]

Nice one fellas, you're killin me! Looks like you were just around the corner from the one couloir we climbed last winter--the 'Mountaineering Couloir'. Same exact view from Hayden, looks sick, can't believe it's that good in Nov.

I was hoping to get out there while it was still car/truck accessible but probably not gonna happen after this weekend sounds like. I'll just have to rely on other people's sleds from now on Trackhead <ahem!>

Anyway I got my extremo mountain gear in the mail today: axe and crampons, + now have AT boots with Vibram soles all to at least somewhat lessen the pucker factor in places like that

I was whishing I had a whippet. Whippet good.

[maggot_X]

http://www.edmoweb.com/uintah1.jpg

Nice work!!

[Blurred]

Nice work kids!

[AltaPowderDaze]

Rides via Polaris for anyone with a Vibram 'soul'.

i'm still rockin the salomon x-wave 10's. it adds another element of sport to the scramble. when i start to tele i may lose that.

[grizzle6]

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice. Love the stoke. Makes this desk job somewhat tolerable.

[Mountain Freak]

SWEEEEEEEET! That area is awesome, it looked like you guys needed rock climbing shoes on one section. Did you smear with your ski boots?

[Twoplanker]

i'm still rockin the salomon x-wave 10's. it adds another element of sport to the scramble. when i start to tele i may lose that.

I was climbing that shit in my new, stiff Rossi alpine boots (thanks Str8line!) and it was a real bitch. Great for descents, not so great for climbing over rock.

Also, really looking forward to mounting up the Freerides that I just got (thanks again) and using my Alpine Trekkers as wind chimes.

[marshalolson]

awesome video... well done/

[Twoplanker]

Nice work!!

I specifically remember Trackhead saying, viewing from the car, "that thing is at least 40 feet across at the crux"....

[Trackhead]

I specifically remember Trackhead saying, viewing from the car, "that thing is at least 40 feet across at the crux"....

Don't quote me, the altitude was obviously affecting your brain. And if I said, "holy shit, let's nail that 4 foot wide couloir with a mandatory straight shot into a thinly covered talus field" we wouldn't have been talking about this, now would we.

SUCKER!!!!

[Twoplanker]

Don't quote me, the altitude was obviously affecting your brain. And if I said, "holy shit, let's nail that 4 foot wide couloir with a mandatory straight shot into a thinly covered talus field" we wouldn't have been talking about this, now would we.

SUCKER!!!!

You are the puppetmaster.

I'm headed off to New Orleans tomorrow. I suspect that after a few Hurricanes on Bourbon Street, yesterday on Hayden Peak will seem completely unreal.

[Lane Meyer]

both cool videos...good stoke...

wish we actually GOT FUCKING SNOW in colorado....as usual the next storm will drop of deep at tahoe and utah and we will get like 3 inches...

Nice work boys!

And um, upside down guy, no offense intended, but didn't you get the memo? It's been snowing "deep in Tahoe and Utah and 3 inches in Colorado" since the Pleistocene era. You seem to already know that since you typed it, so, uh, why don't you move out of Colorado? Or better yet, I hear it snows a lot in the upper half of Michigan....

[slippy]

Beautiful scenery. When I went to the Unitas I never saw any peaks at all, just rolling hills. Can you sled off of Hwy 150? Just wondering if you could sled to the base of most of those peaks shown. I got an Alta pass this season and still have a sled, so I'll be up in around somewhere over down in there starting in December.

[Trackhead]

Beautiful scenery. When I went to the Unitas I never saw any peaks at all, just rolling hills. Can you sled off of Hwy 150? Just wondering if you could sled to the base of most of those peaks shown. I got an Alta pass this season and still have a sled, so I'll be up in around somewhere over down in there starting in December.

Yeah, you're right. Just rolling hills, no real peaks to bag. It's actually quite a bit like driving across North Dakota.

You can sled 150 but not a ton of stuff off the road is legal because of wilderness boundary. Not really sure where the boundary is, but just using the highway for access is adequate.

[slippy]

thanks TH.

[Twoplanker]

Bonus boner pics:

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These mountains brought to you by PMGEAR.

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[Stoysluttie1]

Two....i think you were high, 10,000 feet high, when you heard Track say..."yeah, the choke looks like four, three feet to me." Not forty feet. Gotta turn down the thumping of your heart. Nice shots by the way.

We are having techinical difficulties at school so I cannot upload my photos right now. i do have the 'hero' shot of you just before it all went wrong. And osme other nice ones as well

[Stoysluttie1]

bump...to make it easy for my fam to check out.