| Coated with tasty Utah powder, the narrow couloir below us was nothing less than a 2,000-vertical foot statement of nature's perfection. |
| Bruce and the Gurkhas were below the rib, and could only see up the couloir. |
| Just below him lay the longest ice-slope, or couloir, he had hitherto encountered. |
| Under a bluebird sky, he stood staring at 5,000 vertical feet of untracked powder, which disappeared down a steep-walled couloir that hadn't been touched all winter. |
| But at its narrowest the couloir is about two ski lengths wide. |
| The party had gained a considerable height on the mountain when it became necessary to cross a couloir or gully filled with snow. |
