TR: Longs Peak(14,255'), Notch Couloir 5.30.08

[mountaingirl1961]

Hi
Here is a photo of the first two of you dropping into the Notch! Lead skier is about 80 feet below Notch, just to the left of an elongated rock. Second skier is about 30 feet below Notch, just right of a roughly triangular rock. The head of the third skier can be seen in Notch - I could see you moving around through the camera lens!

Climber Jim

Phortuitous photo, Climber Jim.

Outrageous TR, you guys.

Where do you keep the semi you use to haul your balls around with?

[Cosmic Suncloud]

yellloop shlooooukie!

think Harlin III skied the notch in the 70's (winter time). on rap as well.

[whapworth]

must really trust those dynafits, great stoke

[LightRanger]

FKNA!!! Great stuff!!!

[BurnHard]

BUUUUUUUMP this fucker 'cause I'm getting stoked for the season.
Hope it fills in this year, I'd love a shot at this bad bad bad bad line.

[blender]

What I love about TGR:
You can lurk around here for years and one day someone bumps an old thread and it's some of the best shit you've seen on the internet.
Great stuff!

[FrontRangeDrummer]

Nice bump, Bernardo. Did you see the photos from when Adimmen and I skied the Notch? I might be convinced to ski it again, especially if it gets fat in the spring.

[MCH]

Nice work good before work stoke!!

[The SnowShow]

Holy good shit! Amazing

[pappag]

BUUUUUUUMP this fucker 'cause I'm getting stoked for the season.
Hope it fills in this year, I'd love a shot at this bad bad bad bad line.

Quality bump! Sure beats the fuck out of all these lame resort threads.

[BurnHard]

Nice bump, Bernardo. Did you see the photos from when Adimmen and I skied the Notch? I might be convinced to ski it again, especially if it gets fat in the spring.

DAMN brotha I had no idea you skied it! Congrats!!
Let's definitely hook up for this, I hope it fills in nicely, I wanna tick this one of my list.

[Rockband]

DAMN brotha I had no idea you skied it! Congrats!!
Let's definitely hook up for this, I hope it fills in nicely, I wanna tick this one of my list.

This line is $$$, time to get my crampons all sharpened up.

Burn! What's up! We need to ride this winter, in D-town now. Been getting my climb on, N-table was a sunny 66 degrees today. Lets do some RMNP pow/spring lines, maybe Skywalker as a nice warm up once it's ready.

[skiracer88_00]

10 years later, this deserves a BUMP

[Fritz]

Yup. Brings back good memories.

[thefrush]

The idea of climbing and skiing that line makes me weak in the knees.

[The SnowShow]

Amazing, that is one ballsy line.

[whipski]

a trip up and down mammary lane

[mtnbiker/boarder]

big nuts big line and a big FKNA still a good read after the TR first came out.....

[Telemark Girl]

I've climbed this twice late season, mid to late August, when it turns to a super solid and fun alpine ice route, probably graded AI3. I can't imagine skiing it. Both times I climbed it I ended up getting altitude sick because I ran out of water near the top of the Notch and forgot how long the standard route is to first summit via the Homestretch and then downclimb from the summit. It's about two miles of hiking above 13,000 and takes a few hours. Great TR!!!

[goldenboy]

Glad this old TR survived Photobucket hell, unlike so many other old TR's.

[trogdortheburninator]

While a lot of faces in CO have lost some of their fearsome reputations in the last decade or so, this E face of Longs still holds a lot of mystique and instills fear. This TR has inspired me for the last ten years, but I still havent made it up there. AFAIK, the notch still awaits a clean (no raps or downclimbs) ski descent, not to mention all that other snow to the right...

[raisingarizona13]

That's scary! Legit extreme skiing imo.

[billyk]

This is something I know I’ll never do, even if I were young enough. So thanks for letting me experience it vicariously. Crazy stuff. Glad you survived it!