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Nov 22 nameless chute, quand, colo

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Posted by danhelmstadter on 11/22/06 1:11pm
was able to skin up too 13k on quandary peak with no shirt, found a nice south side shot at about 13.5, continued to the summit in search of the cristo, but it proved to be a fruitless endevor, as i later found out from th eparking lot that the cristo couloir's top half has not filled yet, so i dropped in alone(stupid) into the nameless couloir/chute at 13.5 instead of the standard east face winter route which looked pretty knarled from wind and lack of snow, got at least 1k vert before the chute ended over cliffs which made for some pain in the ass traversing getting out of there as the cliff band extend some ways, the chute wasent that steep (possibly low forties) but unfortanatley has been the location of a number of avi fatalites and accidents over the years.
That's quite the contrast from the weather here in Washington...

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