But the boys decide to boot up a big couloir on Rethel. It's right there at the hut.
![Image](http://skisickness.com/2011/01/30/12t.jpg)
This couloir is huge.
![Image](http://skisickness.com/2011/01/30/13t.jpg)
Nobody expects to get past the huge cornice that guards the top. But as we get close to it, there's some magic coastal snow that lets us boot up a very steep ramp through a cliff.
Suddenly, we find ourselves on a steep hanging snowfield above the couloir.
![Image](http://skisickness.com/2011/01/30/14t.jpg)
We don't have any crampons or ice axes but it doesn't matter because the snow is so perfect.
![Image](http://skisickness.com/2011/01/30/15t.jpg)
The hanging snowfield magically delivers us to the summit plateau above a cliff where there's no cornice.
![Image](http://skisickness.com/2011/01/30/16.jpg)
Et voila !
![Image](http://skisickness.com/2011/01/30/17t.jpg)
The views are spectacular.
Parkhust!
![Image](http://skisickness.com/2011/01/30/parkhurstsm.jpg)
Now we schralp steep powder. I guess, first dibs for me since I kicked the steps.
![Image](http://skisickness.com/2011/01/30/18t.jpg)
Purrrrfect.
![Image](http://skisickness.com/2011/01/30/19t.jpg)
Eric on the last bit of hanging snowfield above the couloir.
![Image](http://skisickness.com/2011/01/30/20t.jpg)
Fork an egg, that was fun!
![Image](http://skisickness.com/2011/01/30/21t.jpg)
Just to be all raunchy about it, Rethel.
![Image](http://skisickness.com/2011/01/30/rethel.jpg)