Showing posts with label Jackson Hole Backcounty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jackson Hole Backcounty. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Never Never Land

We finally got a small storm to bring us a decent amount snow last weekend. There's still a few rocks and stumps to look out for but I did get the best POW turns I've had at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort! Ya it's my first year in Jackson and it was nothing like some of the turns that I had last year in the Pacific Northwest. But it's early and it was still a lot of fun to get to a taste of what the resort has to offer. The gondy also opened so Julie and I got to see a ton more of the mountain. We still need more snow to get the whole resort open but we are incing are way there
By noon it was getting tracked out and we were a bit beat but before calling it a day I hit up my friend Knox who was planning on hiking up at Teton Pass. The enthusiasm from his fist lap was spilling out of my headset. It took him 10 seconds to get us to beeline it to Wilson. We met up with Knox and his crew and hitch to the top of the pass and hiked Chiver's Chiver's isn't much of a hike unless your still drunk from the night before but it was Harms birthday so......
Happy Birthday Harms
Here's Knox in some nice deep POW

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Back in the Backcounrty

I got to ride in the backcountry for the first time this year and for the fist time since I moved to Jackson Hole. We started at the top of Teton Pass at about 8,000 feet and ended at the top of Mt. Glory at around 10,ooo. It was a tough hike but it felt good to be back up in the mountains with some snow!!! It wasn't the best snow but we did have a few nice pow turns. Any day riding is a good day right? Julie and I also got to see see what Jackson Hole has to offer and all I can say is SICK The mountains are just screaming with bowls, shoots,trees and cliffs.... the best part, you can ride all of it


The top of Mt. Glory 10,086 feet















The ride down is always worth the hike. Here's Julie eatin it up