Trench "Narrow Nasty" Couloir, Black Mountain
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After Greg and I's run down Shit for Brains we were hooked on this zone. I had heard of the other lines down the west face of Black Mountain like dogleg, dog shit, ect.. but never had I heard of the Trench. Greg found an old pic of the couloir from somewhere online and we knew we had to get it. Time goes by and eventually after a bailed run on Brains one day, Mike Bannister and I get in touch and I got off work early and I met him and Pollo up in the basin to go for a crack at the Trench. None of us had done the line before but we all had a pretty good idea how to get to it. So we skinned to the head of marjorie bowl as far as we could until we switched to a bootpack and started to up the gully to the left to gain the ridge. |
After a little bit of navigation we found our way at the top of this amazing line. They call it Narrow Nasty for a reason! Due to the low snowpack it seemed even more tight than usual. Just the way I like it!
After about half way down the line there was a choke that pretty much required a rather sketchy mandatory air. We chose the latter and carefully negotiated down.
After that the couloir started to open up a little bit and we enjoyed some great corn skiing all the way through the apron
All in all, she is a beauty! I can't wait to go back and ride her again in fatter conditions, because I will be back!! My camera kept on dying but I did put together a little video. Check it out here.....
WATCH THE VIDEO ... Narrow Nasty