couloir
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At the time, Gyselinck did not know an avalanche the day prior had flushed four climbers 500 vertical feet down a steep gully on Colchuck Peak known as the northeast couloir.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
That can mean trekking all day to make but one run down an isolated couloir or a bowl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
After about 1,500 vertical feet, the couloir narrowed and made a sharp bend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
The couloir rises out of Colchuck Glacier, visible above the lake.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
For the matter of that,” said the Captain, looking out, “we might have a slide made, like a Swiss couloir, you know, and she could glissade comfortably into the boat out o’ the winder.
From Rivers of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Olympian Cam Smith described the longer versions as a “more in-wild-mountains-off-the-ski-resorts event where you’re climbing up and skiing down in wild places and on technical ridges, on peaks, couloirs, all that good stuff.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
“Access couloirs that used to last deep into August are falling apart,” Volken added, describing the steep, narrow gullies that climbers often must ascend.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2023
And while Big Sky is revered for steep chutes and terrifying couloirs, of the resort’s 5,800 acres, 40% is made for newbies and intermediate skiers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2018
Snowboarders stranded in the hourglass couloirs plugged the tight spots like corks.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2015
The pinnacles above were impressively high, and between them were couloirs of debris that looked to us to be as perpendicular as the cliffs.
From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Percival Lowell
