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Recent Examples of couloir For more than eight hours, rescuers worked to reach the hikers and lower them from the couloir. Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 27 May 2024 While the walls of the steep, narrowing gully quickly rise to more than 100 feet on either side and the couloir is large enough to be rippled with a few ski lines, a snowball tossed from the top can nearly reach the bottom of the gully and the creek that drains it in winter. Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 22 Mar. 2018 In August, 21-year-old Jadyn Weiss fell 300 feet to her death while descending a steep mountain gully known as the Flying Dutchman couloir. Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023 That includes backcountry boarding and skiing with friends, ice climbing, snowshoeing, hiking and climbing couloirs. Chris Meehan, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2023 Rivulets and rocks made the couloir treacherous. Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023 Six members of the group were ascending the gulley, called a couloir, early Sunday afternoon when the lead climber triggered the avalanche, the sheriff’s office said. Gene Johnson, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2023 The view opened up over the other side of the col: the steep west face of Mount Helen and its northwest couloir, still packed with snow in early August, and the peaks of the east side of Titcomb Basin. Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2020 Chin and Monod bootpack up a perfect couloir on Surprise Pass, Alberta. Grayson Schaffer, Outside Online, 14 May 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for couloir
Noun
  • With its warm wood planking, plentiful resting areas, and plantings of long, waving grasses, the park, no matter how crowded, feels like a calm canyon snaking through crumbling tenements and monumental skyscrapers, offering occasional glimpses of the Hudson River beyond.
    News Desk, Artforum, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Smallmouths are also impacting rainbow and brown trout, two other non-natives that are managed closely in the canyon.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • If reaching a safe shelter is not possible, either crouch down in your car and cover your head, or leave your vehicle and seek refuge in a low-lying area like a ditch or ravine.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 16 Mar. 2025
  • If no alternative exists, set up camp in a valley, ravine, or other low-lying areas.
    Southern California Weather Report, Orange County Register, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Kloss’ landscape prints deftly, insightfully capture the mountains and streams and gorges and cottonwood trees and snow and atmosphere of the terrain in and around Taos.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park spans 31,000 acres of exceptionally rugged, remote terrain that surrounds part of a deep, steep-walled gorge carved into rock by the Gunnison River, McClatchy News reported.
    Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 25 Feb. 2025

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“Couloir.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/couloir. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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