Name: Cristo Couloir
Rating: 3.8

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Either skin/hike the east ridge to the summit and drop down to the south or follow Blue Lakes road to the base and start climbing.

Lou Dawson gave this route a difficulty rating of III D10 R2 ( loudawson.com/rating-ski-de…).

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3.8 from 13 votes

#5

in Breckenridge

#326

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3.8 from 13 votes

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#5

in Breckenridge

#97

in Colorado

#326

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May 23, 2025

P S

Apr 26, 2025

Banks Irelan

May 27, 2024

Jack Huston

6.9mi — 7h 16m

May 16, 2023

Carter Young

really good

Apr 30, 2021

Chris Johnson

Apr 25, 2021

Alex FItch

Able to skin the east ridge all the way up but very windy. Boot pack down from the summit 200 feet past a rock band then couloir fully covered. 7.1mi — 4h 30m

Apr 10, 2021

Dylan Moriarty

Required Boot Pack up, snow too intermittent on trail to skin. Cristo was filled in, however a short gap with rocks about 200 Yards from start — 6h 00m

May 28, 2019

Daniel N Alysa Weiss

May 16, 2019

Dylan Kobriger

May 5, 2019

Siri Brochman

Snow was perfect we skinned up main frontside trail. Skied down just as it was getting soft. Slush at bottom and you could ski all of the way out 4mi — 10h 30m

May 4, 2019

Choss Connoisseur

5 hrs car to car. 30 min break for lunch

Apr 21, 2019

Jeff McGowan

Dec 16, 2017

Henry Lewinsohn

Dec 10, 2017

John Duke 1

Apr 23, 2017

JaminT Rossetter

Soft, fun.

Mar 19, 2017

Deva Solomon

Needs snow. Extra downclimb

Jun 6, 2013

Will Shaw

Jun 12, 2011

Britton Thomas

This is a great ski and climb. Skied directly from the summit in 2011.

Jun 3, 2011

Jared Brin

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Cristo Couloir

“A wide open couloir on the south face of Quandary off the summit. ”

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13,903' 4,238 m

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