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I skied Corbet’s Couloir for the first time in nine years on Friday the 13th, March 2026. Fitting date.
For the uninitiated: Corbet’s is the most famous and most feared run at Wyoming’s Jackson Hole Mountain Resort — a near-vertical entry off a blind lip that requires you to launch yourself into a chute flanked by rock walls before you have any real idea what you’re landing on. There is no easing into it. You either commit or you don’t go. And if you don’t go, you have to do the long walk of shame back past everyone watching from the tram exit, which is somehow worse.
I witnessed carnage.
The couloir was in rare spring form — the entry lip had built up into something genuinely terrifying, the chute was running fast, and the general public had decided, en masse, that Friday the 13th was the perfect day to test their limits. It was not the perfect day for many of them.
When I got home, my roommate told me something that changed my life: you can rewind the Corbet’s Couloir webcam. It is live, it is free, and it records everything.
So I indulged.
What I discovered was a cornucopia of whipouts, lost skis, snowboard flails, and ski patrollers having to rappel into the chute to extract equipment from places equipment should not be. I watched people who clearly knew what they were doing absolutely stomp it. I watched people who clearly did not know what they were doing make decisions that will haunt them. I watched at least two skis achieve independent flight. Very few people pulled it off cleanly. Several made sounds I could not hear but could absolutely lip-read.
My heart sang.
Here is the thing about Corbet’s that the webcam captures better than anything else: it is the great equalizer. Olympic athletes have eaten it on that entry. Ski patrol legends have had bad days in that chute. The mountain does not care about your resume, your equipment, or how good you looked on the groomers that morning. The entry is the entry and the consequence of hesitation is immediate and public.
The webcam — positioned perfectly above the lip — catches all of it. Every committed drop, every last-second bail, every spectacular yard sale. It has the energy of a highlight reel and a blooper reel simultaneously, often within the same clip.
Jackson Hole has accidentally created the greatest piece of ski entertainment on the internet. People have been watching ski crash compilations on YouTube for decades. This is better because it is live, it is real, and somewhere out there the person in the bright orange jacket who lost both poles and one ski on a single entry is trying to explain to their friends what happened.
I know what happened. I watched it four times.
We have assembled the best crashes for SnowBrains readers in the YouTube video — just to share the joy, we are selfless like that.
It’s safe to say that the Corbet’s Couloir webcam is now bookmarked on my phone, my laptop, and my work computer. It is the future of my happiness. Check it any powder day, any bluebird Saturday, any spring afternoon when the slush gets heavy and ambitions outpace ability. You will not be disappointed. Watch the Corbet’s Couloir webcam here.
