Thar Peak Couloir

The plan for the day was to climb Thar Peak from the north couloir, then ski down the other side. Near the entrance of the couloir, we switched from skis to crampons. The snow was quite deep, so we stayed near the rocks on climber's left where we could find some purchase with our ice axes. Progress was very slow though. After some heavy sluffing started to come down through the couloir above and past us, we aborted the mission and headed back down on skis. Near the bottom, I accidentally triggered a size 1 slab avalanche but it barely slid, probably because it wasn't steep enough.

Incident Report

Recording this as an incident because of the heavy sluffing that occured while we were in the couloir, not because of the small size 1 avalanche that occured later at the bottom.