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The "other" side of Whitetail...

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The "other" side of Whitetail peak, the southwest side. Photo taken from near Sky Pilot Lake. The visible couloir on this side meets the whitetail couloir at the notch just below the summit. August 2004.

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Diggler

Gone up that couloir?

Voted 10/10

Looks like it'd be a sweet spring climb!

Posted Jan 4, 2005 1:30 pm


	bakcast	Re: Gone up that couloir?
	Hasn't voted	No sir I have not, but the Whitetail couloir is on the other side of the mountain and it is climbed relatively frequently. I hear a couple of crazy people on SP are planning a ski descent this winter (if it ever snows....). I seriuosly doubt that this side has been climbed.
		Posted Feb 4, 2005 1:43 pm


	the fargoan	Re: Gone up that couloir?
	Hasn't voted	This side has been climbed numerous times according to a Billings climber that I talked to. It is also used an alternate descent route after climbing the Whitetail Couloir on the north side.
		Posted Feb 8, 2005 5:47 pm


	bakcast	Re: Gone up that couloir?
	Hasn't voted	Shows what I know...its a pretty remote area once you get past second rock lake. No sign of people whatsoever. Care to share what he told you about the route? I assume it doesn't hold snow as well as the other side?
		Posted Feb 9, 2005 12:43 pm


	the fargoan	Re: Gone up that couloir?
	Hasn't voted	I asked him if this couloir had been climbed before, and he only said that it had and that it also has been used for descending after climbing climbing the main couloir on the north side. I don't think you'll get much more info than that from a Beartooth climber?
		Posted Feb 16, 2005 12:49 pm


	bakcast	Re: Gone up that couloir?
	Hasn't voted	Very True....and precisely the reason I like climbing the Beartooths. Although the Beartooths probably have more information on-line and in guide books than many of the other MT ranges combined. Which is an even better reason to have an adventure in say, the Gravely, Swan or Snowcrest ranges.
		Posted Feb 16, 2005 1:15 pm