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Trip Report: 13,118′ Mt. Emerson – The 45º Steep “North Couloir”

Report from May 23, 2023 The sweet smell of sagebrush, following a deer track for a mile, vertical mountains that felt like they could fall down on me, raging rivers, pungent ponderosa odor, firm snow, corn snow, isothermic snow, cactus, mule deer, marmots, grasshoppers, and sore knees. In 2019, we skied the chute adjacent to this chute, “Zebra Couloir” on […]

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Miles Clark | May 24, 2023
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Eastern Sierra, CA Backcountry Report: 1″ of Snow in 20-Minutes at 12,300′ in Zebra Chute

Report from June 1st, 2019 Yesterday morning Roger Romani arose before dawn and made the trek to the spectacularly beautiful Buttermilks in Bishop, CA with the objective of skiing the Zebra Couloir off 13,100′ Mt. Emerson. With our 4×4 we were able to drive up the road quite a ways and park high. Easy walking got afforded us some up […]

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Miles Clark | June 3, 2019
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