Mountain Project Logo
Climb
MTB
Hike
Trailrun
Ski
Limited Time70% OffonX Backcountry
All Locations > Colorado > Alpine Rock > Torrey's Peak > N Face (aka Tuning Fork) (Mod. Snow R)
Kirk Miller starting the face in early August, 150' below Torreys summit. A short step, 40 degrees maybe, separates him from the wide open snow. Then another choke, partly hidden, guards the junction with the left (west) fork and more steep turns. Like the North Pole at A-Basin for 2,000+ feet. You can see where the snow just ends, with no safe run out of snow. <br>
ID 1202458 · · Copyright Violation?
Heading down to the Kelso Gulch half-pipe.
Rippin' pow at the end of April.
Rate Photo
Rating Rating Rating Rating Rating      Clear Rating
  0.0 from 0 votes
Anonymous Coward
May 11, 2003
“Kirk Miller starting the face in early August, 150' below Torreys summit. A short step, 40 degrees maybe, separates him from the wide open snow. Then another choke, partly hidden, guards the junction with the left (west) fork and more steep turns. Like the North Pole at A-Basin for 2,000+ feet. You can see where the snow just ends, with no safe run out of snow.
”  

0 Comments

Nearby Photos

Rippin' pow at the end of April.
Pencil lines and arrows are on all the gullies I've seen tracks in. Pretty good spring training area for Denver ski mountaineers.
Torrey's summit ridge. Wendy Weiss eyes the drop into the Tuning Fork Couloir after a snowy year. June 1991.
Torrey's 3000' NW Face: the Tuning Fork Couloir is in the center of the face and the Emperor Couloir (partly obscured) drops directly from the summit to the left of the Tuning Fork. May 1988.
Wendy Weiss skiing the Tuning Fork Couloir. She's at the intersection of the two forks. Torrey's Pk. June 1991.
Scott ready to drop into Tuning Fork.
Summer conditions. The summit is left of the highest snow finger.
A glorious sunrise in the high country.
Taken 5/18/03 from Mt. Sniktau, "the tuning fork" is the two pronged couloir right of center
the first few turns into the cooly...6.14.03
Heading down to the Kelso Gulch half-pipe.
Kirk Miller starting the face in early August, 150' below Torreys summit. A short step, 40 degrees maybe, separates him from the wide open snow. Then another choke, partly hidden, guards the junction with the left (west) fork and more steep turns. Like the North Pole at A-Basin for 2,000+ feet. You can see where the snow just ends, with no safe run out of snow. <br>
Welcome

Join the Community! It's FREE

Already have an account? Login to close this notice.

Get Started