The Naked Lady Couloir has been on my list for a couple years and it did not disappoint. I started from Andrews Lake and followed the directions from wildwanderer's trip report from fall 2025 to make my way through the first mile or so in the forest.

This is the first meadow you walk through on your approach. It was very wet and muddy.

I left the trail about 2 miles in. After leaving the trail I bush wacked through plenty of fallen trees. Snowdon is visible most of the way and makes it easy to know where to go.

There is a nice open area at the base of the climb to leave any gear you don't want to haul up the couloir.

The angle is between 40-60 degrees in the couloir. There are some cliff bands that had melted out that I needed to navigate around. Nothing too sketchy though. The snow was mostly solid. There was a section in the middle where I punched through about half way up my shins but it became more and more solid as I climbed higher. The very top of the couloir was exposed rock but it was easy to manage in crampons.

The final climb to the summit was a mix of rock and very poor quality snow. I took my crampons off here and stayed on rock as much as I could. The scrambling is class 3/4 and was easy enough in mountaineering boots.

I decided to downclimb the summer route. The snow in final few pitches to the top of the couloir was very hard and I didn't love the idea of downclimbing it.

Going down the summer route wasn't great. I had to traverse a few of these snow patches that were very slushy and I punched right through. I hugged the rock for support the trudged through. There are cairns to follow for the down climb and I was able to follow them most of the way. I eventually lost the cairned route and found my own way to the lower ridge.

Once you leave the ridge just follow the trail on the standard route down.