Climbed and skied Cristo Couloir on Sunday. With my modified Jeep we were able to make it most of the way to the dam. We started up the couloir at around 7:30. The climb was on good, firm snow pretty much the entire way up. After taking a mandatory beer break on the summit and hanging out for a bit to let the snow soften up we started the ski down at about noon. We were able to ski from the summit, although the first hundred or so vertical feet required careful navigation through talus. Snow was firm and icy at first gradually turning into corn lower down.
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