Met up with Mountain Freak and hit Starlight Couloir off James Peak on Saturday. Had killer weather with light winds and bluebird sky.
While we were gearing up, “Chewey” (famous local dog) made an appearance. He decided to join us on our way up from the parking lot. Once we got up to St. Mary’s lake, we parted ways as he went to hang with the 25 or so CMC folks who were training on the glacier.
Chewey:
Heading up towards James Peak:
Mountain Freak checking the slope angle. 49 degrees on the entrance ramp but it quickly drops to 40-45degrees:
About to drop:
ColMan:
Mountain Freak:
Exiting the coolie:
Looking back:
Great day. The snow in the couloir was nice and soft with 3-4" of new snow on top of a somewhat firm base. Made for effortless turns but you did have to keep an eye on your sluff.
Hopefully the pictures come through. Being my first TR, I’m not 100% sure if I’m linking them correctly or not.
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Thread: TR: Starlight Couloir 5/13/06
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05-16-2006, 01:13 PM #1
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TR: Starlight Couloir 5/13/06
Last edited by ColMan; 05-21-2006 at 11:40 AM.
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05-16-2006, 01:32 PM #2
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looks good, both the TR and the web geekiness!
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05-16-2006, 01:37 PM #3
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Worthy first effort - the pictures are gorgeous too
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05-16-2006, 01:39 PM #4
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Your dog rules. Oh, and good skiing too.
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05-16-2006, 01:43 PM #5
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Thanks CM, Looks great. Keep after it.
Great shot:
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05-16-2006, 03:37 PM #6
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That was a great day dude! I took some video of Col Man in the coolie. As soon as I can load it to a host I'll post it. Sadly this is my first post in about 5 months. They blocked this site at work because I was on it too much.
One of my better days on the split.
And nice write up, pretty much wrapped up that day perfectly.Living the good life.
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05-16-2006, 04:12 PM #7
Has fun no matter what
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nice
Thoroughly enjoyed the dog stoke...
post and let post
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05-16-2006, 04:47 PM #8
...darkness is beautiful
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Nice work....thanks for the stoooooooooke!
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05-16-2006, 04:51 PM #9
Splitboarders Unite!
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nice looking coolie!
good to see MF too...he's been MIA this year it seems.
this might make a good pic for a caption too....if I were funny I would think of one but I'm not.
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05-16-2006, 05:00 PM #10
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"hey fellas.......... all this snow is like........actually a bunch of really small pieces of snow!!!"
Do YOU REALIZE THE STREET VALUE OF THIS MOUNTAIN!!!????Last edited by kidwoo; 05-16-2006 at 05:04 PM.
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05-16-2006, 05:14 PM #11
I belong with the snow...
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Hmmmmm! Tastey! Nice first TR!!!!!!
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