Route: North Face Couloir
Team: Ted, Dirk Bockelmann
You can have a great day in Montezuma Basin in October. Dirk and I were headed out on a climbing trip to Ecuador in a week or so we wanted some time up high. A bluebird day with easy skiing snow awaited us.
After skiing a lap in the upper bowl, we retraced our steps up, all the way to the Castle/Conundrum saddle, to the summit of Castle Peak. From there we skied down the North Couloir.
Montezuma Basin doesn’t get much better than this.
Christy in the couloir. A great climb and ski of the Southeast Couloir on the Crestone Needle.
Riding a wave. Route: North Face Team: Christy, Ted, Chris Davenport, Scott Rinckenberger[...]
Finally, on the summit. An epic Type II fun day on a remote 13er in the San Juans. There were definitely some lesson learned.
We met in Aspen in 2000 and have been happily stuck in the rockies ever since, getting out in the mountains every day we can, in every season and by all means possible. Read More
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