Cirque Peak N Coulior

Quick report

Weather

sunny, warm

Ride Type

steepSlopes, alpineSlopes

Stayed Away

sunnySlopes

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

windAffected, powder, crusty

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSound, avalancheConditionTemp

Skied the N Coulior of Cirque yesterday (March 5). We were able to skin to just below the false summit then switched to bootpacking. After tagging the summit we completed 2 x 30m rappels to reach snow. The second anchor is about 2 body lengths off the deck and required a bit of dry tooling to reach. The coulior skied quite well but short. We found a bit of reactive wind slab at the coulior base but otherwise no signs of instability. We skied back around the E aspect of Cirque (surprisingly long) to link up with the Dolomite Circuit and back out Helen Creek.