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West Couloir Story - Part 2 - TR
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Continued from Part 1

A couple of days later and we are back up the Rond


Once again heading for West Couloir


This time we did get to the abseil in to the couloir


But it wasnt in condition.


So we just have these pics from the top pitch of the Rond


Part 3 coming up

Phil


Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Mon 4-04-05 8:06; edited 2 times in total
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nice, I trust the bindings are ok now?

Looking forward to part III......
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philingle, Please, please assure me that you are not going to the EOSB - I don't think I could cope with this sort of angle! Confused
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bev bish wrote:
Please, please assure me that you are not going to the EOSBConfused


I dont think so, what is the EOSB?
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philingle That first photo looks lincredibly steep, almost too steep. Is the vertical line true? If so - resepect!! What confused me is the snow on the rocks in the background doesn't quite look right - it looks more natural rotated a bit. Compare these three photos and focus on the rocks/snow in the background:

Original:

Rotated 28 degrees:

Rotated 36 degrees:


In the top photo, the snow on the rocks seems to fall uphill.
Not wanting to doubt the extremeness of your skiing, as the other photos look more convincing, I'm just not sure the angle is right in the top photo.
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philingle,

Nice story,
Great pics
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kamikaze wrote:
That first photo looks lincredibly steep, almost too steep. Is the vertical line true?


That section of the Rond is 48 degrees
I just dropped that photo into autocad to measure the angle and



sure enough it is slightly over cooked.

Here it is rotated to its correct angle.



Its not always easy to hold a camera perfectly horizontal when on a slope like that, other things to concentrate on and all that. But I dont think it was too misleading.

Cheers

Phil
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philingle,

Quite, I would be happy to get a good focused shot, everything else can be fixed up later if need be.
Its hard enough to stand safe especially if the exposure ended with those cliffs.

Look forward to the next installment
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I wonder how many of us would be willing to point our board or skis straight down 'that' Shocked fall-line?

Me? I go quite well with tarragon and cream
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Masque,

One thing that really concentrates my mind are rocks, cliffs are a few notches further up.
A few good turns would do me. Love the sound of it tho'
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WOWSER, them is some good photos!!

your not one of them peeps who skis down grade 3 winter climbs, like the tower ridge (?) up Ben Nevis r u??!! Shocked Shocked Skullie
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