couloir

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Gyselinck knows Eight Mile Road well and has climbed in these mountains for over 20 years, including a successful March 2016 ascent of Colchuck Peak via the northeast couloir.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2023

That can mean trekking all day to make but one run down an isolated couloir or a bowl.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2023

Lewicky’s benchmark for great adventures dates to 2008 when, on a hike through the San Gabriels, he spotted an unfamiliar couloir — a steep chute bordered by rock on either side — in the distance.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2023

While climbing a couloir — a steep narrow gully — the lead climber in a group of six triggered the slab avalanche.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2023

At the foot of the slope they came to a couloir, or sloping gorge, so steep that snow could not lie on it.

From Rivers of Ice by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)