Corbet’s Couloir
Having just arrived in Jackson Hole, we started talking about tomorrow's skiing and looking at the trail map. Soon we got into talking about Corbet's Couloir - a very challenging and famous run on the Rendezvous Mountain. None of us had skied it, and most maybe none of us will, but the legendary run made us curios. Being geeks, we fired up the laptops and started searching for information and photos.

Unfortunately, we didn't find that many good photos, but the ones we did find were impressive and a press release about this year's opening of Corbet’s Couloir described it like this:

Corbet's degree of steepness is nearly vertical at the top, thus creating the need to jump into the couloir. The slope then “flattens” to 50 degrees. The overall average steepness is 40 degrees. The width of Corbet's is 40-50 feet within the chute, widening toward the bottom. The vertical drop of Corbet's is 500 feet.

Flattens to 50 degrees??!

Searching youtube showed that there's even a short movie: "Someday, Somebody Will Ski That" by Peter Pilafian (2006). The trailer shows a few clips from the drop-in.


Tomorrow's plan is to go to the edge, look down and turn around.