Conundrum Couloir

Colorado peak questions, condition requests and other info.
Forum rules
  • This is a mountaineering forum, so please keep your posts on-topic. Posts do not all have to be related to the 14ers but should at least be mountaineering-related.
  • Personal attacks and confrontational behavior will result in removal from the forum at the discretion of the administrators.
  • Do not use this forum to advertise, sell photos or other products or promote a commercial website.
  • Posts will be removed at the discretion of the site administrator or moderator(s), including: Troll posts, posts pushing political views or religious beliefs, and posts with the purpose of instigating conflict within the forum.
    For more details, please see the Terms of Use you agreed to when joining the forum.
User avatar
JacobW
Posts: 142
Joined: 6/15/2012
14ers: 45  17  4 
13ers: 21 11 3
Trip Reports (5)
 

Re: Conundrum Couloir

Post by JacobW »

SnowAlien wrote: Sun Apr 04, 2021 6:44 pm People, you are overanalyzing everything. You don't need to be a good or even competent skier to ski the 14ers. It's all in your head. Dirty little secret - if you know how to jumpturn, you don't need to know how to ski.
Conundrum Couloir is also only ~500', you could just penguin slide down it and probably keep your teeth at the bottom.
Last edited by JacobW on Thu Apr 08, 2021 10:16 am, edited 1 time in total.
spoony
Posts: 84
Joined: 5/3/2015
14ers: 21  14  3 
13ers: 5 4
Trip Reports (0)
 

Re: Conundrum Couloir

Post by spoony »

This discussion sort of reminds of a conversation I head when the "first descent" of K2 was making the rounds a while back. I told my co-worker that I thought it was pretty mind blowing. He watched the video and was like, "Meh. He wasn't really skiing, just sidestepping down."

Also, I learned the jump turn by watching Blizzard of Ahhs (hip smears are sweet!). But then I watched the effortless move that is a jump turn by Vivian Bruchez and now I am totally unsure of my own form.
User avatar
lodgling
Posts: 537
Joined: 6/21/2005
14ers: 58  58  2 
13ers: 18 1
Trip Reports (12)
 

Re: Conundrum Couloir

Post by lodgling »

I recall being pretty gripped getting from the summit into the couloir. Not exactly “skiing,” but awkward no fall movement with skis on feet and strangely shaped snow and rock under ski.
User avatar
BillMiddlebrook
Site Administrator
Posts: 6908
Joined: 7/25/2004
14ers: 58  46  19 
13ers: 172 44 37
Trip Reports (2)
 
Contact:

Re: Conundrum Couloir

Post by BillMiddlebrook »

JacobW wrote: Thu Apr 08, 2021 8:02 am
SnowAlien wrote: Sun Apr 04, 2021 6:44 pm People, you are overanalyzing everything. You don't need to be a good or even competent skier to ski the 14ers. It's all in your head. Dirty little secret - if you know how to jumpturn, you don't need to know how to ski.
Conundrum Couloir is also only ~500', you could just penguin slide down it and probably keep your teeth at the bottom.
No
"When I go out, I become more alive. I just love skiing. The gravitational pull. When you ski steep terrain... you can almost get a feeling of flying." -Doug Coombs
letitbeirie
Posts: 65
Joined: 6/26/2015
14ers: 16 
Trip Reports (0)
 

Re: Conundrum Couloir

Post by letitbeirie »

SnowAlien wrote: Wed Apr 07, 2021 6:16 pm
bergsteigen wrote: Wed Apr 07, 2021 5:06 pm
mbourget wrote: Wed Apr 07, 2021 3:31 pm
oh thank god
Well sheeeeiiiite, why am I even worrying about Landry and Capitol then?!?
Exactly. As long as you know how to snowplow, it's all good 😇
If you french fry when you should've pizza'd, you're gonna have a bad time.
Post Reply