[TR] The Triad - Cumshot Couloir 7/13/2008

[powdherb]

Trip: The Triad - Cumshot Couloir

 

Date: 7/13/2008

 

Trip Report:

In order to step it a notch towards the real Sky, Ryan, and Tim and I headed to the land of infinite gnar: Cascade River Road.

 

Our adventures would take us towards the Triad, a set of peaks near Eldorado, the lost city of golden-gnar, to the fabled Cumshot couloir. This chute is stupidly rad; dropping into the marble creek cirque drainage and contained deep in a nasty steep-walled canyon, it drops several thousand feet to the verdant valley floor below.

 

There's one catch: if you keep skiing fall line you ski off a cliff so big you die twice before you hit the ground. After about vf 600 feet down of scary super-steeps you traverse left and continue skiing another couple thousand feet down to the glacier botton.

 

The deproach involves climbing back up out of marble creek and rapelling down back into the cascade river drainage off a radicle col which combines to add up to a nice 9000 vertical foot day of jungle romping and alpine gnar.

 

Climbing up toward the Triad.

 

 

Dropping.

 

 

 

 

I better have a good life insurance policy if I fall.

 

 

It was steep.

 

Conditions were primo, though.

 

 

 

Entering the final chute.

 

The exit of the canyon.

 

Aiguille du Dorado.

 

Marble Creek Cirque.

 

Stoke Bomb.

 

Arriving at the rap station after slogging over 2k up to the col while avoiding serac tennis.

 

The taleban.

 

 

Rap station?

 

 

J-burg.

 

 

 

Not bad for like, September or whatever month it is.

 

Gear Notes:

Two thin 30m ropes. Life insurance.

 

Approach Notes:

Teh suck.

[wayne]

Job! any back-away photos-o-de-line!

[skykilo]

Here's one I got from Sergio last July, Wayne

 

Here are two photos of powdherb

 

[Stefan]

Nice. This photo says to me: I kick ass.

 

Stoke Bomb.

 

[JoshK]

Awesome!! Any line you would compare the steepness to? It's hard to tell from the photos which, honestly, don't make it look very steep at all. Pictures are big liars though!