I woke up early this morning and drove up to Jackson Lake to check out the sunrise… wow, I was treated to a good show! The Tetons are so spectacular. This is a two-image stitched panorama.
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Mountain photos and adventure journals from Wyoming.
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Skiing/Snowboarding, Wyoming
Backyard
December 21, 2009 | Permalink | 2 Comments
…and back to our regular scheduled programming…
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Skiing/Snowboarding, Wyoming
Sun Dog
December 18, 2009 | Permalink | Post a Comment
Today I witnessed an incredible sundog in the sky above Jackson Hole. People were forgetting about skiing and snowboarding as they looked up and marveled at the solar spectacle. So surreal… This photo only shows a portion of the magnificent light pattern in the sky!
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Skiing/Snowboarding, Wyoming
Whumpf
December 16, 2009 | Permalink | 2 Comments
It felt great to take the splitboard out today for the first time up here in Wyoming. We were out for about 7 hours, putting in most of a skin track and then scoring a powdery 3,000-foot descent. Due to the limited visibility of the foggy snowy weather, and sketchy avy conditions (whumpf, whumpf), we took it pretty safe and easy on the way down. This zone has some serious shredding potential and I hope to return again during clearer weather and more solid snowpack conditions.
Rider: Mot Gatehouse.
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Skiing/Snowboarding, Wyoming
On
December 14, 2009 | Permalink | Post a Comment
The snow faucet has been turned on, with 2-3 feet of fresh snow! Rider: Jason King.
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Skiing/Snowboarding, Wyoming
Too Cold
December 9, 2009 | Permalink | 3 Comments
Rider: Jason King. Today we repeated the nice route that we did on Saturday. The two north-facing descents were perfect mid-winter-esque powder goodness; however, hiking up along the ridgeline involved some suffering in perhaps the coldest temperatures I’ve ever experienced. Dangerously cold. Too cold for human beings in their right minds, I think. But we persevered and scored some sweet pow lines… along with a bit of frostbite.
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Skiing/Snowboarding, Wyoming
Training
December 7, 2009 | Permalink | 3 Comments
Brutally cold today up on a high ridgeline, with frigid winds and sketchy frozen windslabs. We hiked a long ways for not that great of a descent – at least compared to the sweet lines we’ve been getting lately. But as always the hiking and adventure were fun enough… at the least, chalk it up to training.
Dropping in to the line.
The lower runout.
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Skiing/Snowboarding, Wyoming
More Early Powder
December 5, 2009 | Permalink | 2 Comments
It hasn’t snowed much in a while, but the frigid temperatures of this last week have perfectly preserved the powder that’s still out there. This morning we went out for a 5 mile shuttle route, and scored two steep powder-filled descents along the way!
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Wyoming
Teton Moonlight
December 2, 2009 | Permalink | 7 Comments
Moonlight illuminates the Tetons, November.
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Skiing/Snowboarding, Wyoming
Finding the Early Powder
December 2, 2009 | Permalink | 3 Comments
Though the mountains around Jackson still seem fairly bare at first glance, my buddy Jason has been taking me to some of his favorite early season backcountry spots, and we’ve found some great powder conditions on some nice solid lines!
Rider: Jason King.
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