State-of-the-art reconnaissance for backcountry skiers and boarders has traditionally consisted of topo maps, advice from ski buddies and the desire to explore. Now, with an explosion of resources on the Web, reconnaissance has also gone digital. Randosteve hard at work. Teton County Library instructor, Steve Whisenand, will give a virtual tour of online resources for [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Shred the Web!!!!
by December 16th, 2008And the Winner of the TetonAT Trip Report Contest Is…
by December 15th, 2008Congratulations to….well…not so fast. First I want to thank all those that entered the TetonAT.com Trip Report Contest. I’d also like to thank Penn Newhard and the rest of the crew at Black Diamond Equipment for donating a pair of skis to this contest. Without them…there would be no contest. It was a little crazy [...]
Skier Dies in Snowbird Avalanche
by December 14th, 2008Slide in the Eye of the Needle area on Mount Baldy. Photo: Jim Urquhart/The Salt Lake Tribune. A skier died on Sunday after being buried in an avalanche for about an hour in the Eye of the Needle area of Mount Baldy at Snowbird. Skier Heather Gross was still alive but unconscious when she was [...]
Guest TR: Ridgeway, By Alex Kerney
by December 14th, 2008Note: This trip report is part of the TetonAT Trip Report Contest. Alex is now in the running to win a FREE pair of Black Diamond skis based on viewer response and the TetonAT panel of judges! Good luck Alex!! Fleeting patches of sun during a rest stop on the pass. So I loaded up [...]
Guest TR: Wapta Icefield, By Jerimy Arnold
by December 13th, 2008Note: This trip report is part of the TetonAT Trip Report Contest. Jerimy is now in the running to win a FREE pair of Black Diamond skis based on viewer response and the TetonAT panel of judges! Good luck Jerimy!! Franz leading on the Peyto Glacier. Finally we made it down to Peyto Lake. Struggling [...]
Guest TR: Wasatch Solo, By Grant Mathias
by December 12th, 2008Note: This trip report is part of the TetonAT Trip Report Contest. Grant is now in the running to win a FREE pair of Black Diamond skis based on viewer response and the TetonAT panel of judges! Good luck Grant!! The Retreating Storm. “Are those voices”? It can’t be. No one ever skis this place. [...]
Layering for Backcountry Skiing
by December 11th, 2008For more information on any of the products mentioned in this video, please visit Arc’teryx.com.
Tukuarika Peak .GIF
by December 10th, 2008With the bighorn sheep closures going into effect on December 15th in Grand Teton National Park, it’s always fun to explore the slopes of the peaks that you don’t get to ski for most of the winter. Yesterday, I got out with Reed to ski the East Face of Tukuarika Peak, which is just shy [...]
Guest TR: Cathedral Corn, By Aaron Miller
by December 9th, 2008Note: This trip report is part of the TetonAT Trip Report Contest. Aaron is now in the running to win a FREE pair of Black Diamond skis based on viewer response and the TetonAT panel of judges! Good luck Aaron!! Aaron rides Cathedral Peak with the Elk Mountains in the distance. The Elk Mountains of [...]
Guest TR: Whitney the Hard Way, By Shane Jones
by December 8th, 2008Note: This trip report is part of the TetonAT Trip Report Contest. Shane is now in the running to win a FREE pair of Black Diamond skis based on viewer response and the TetonAT panel of judges! Good luck Shane!! Shane Jones checking out Day Needle, Keeler Needle and Mount Whitney. It was April 5th [...]
Photos from Teepee Glacier to Glacier Gulch Tour
by December 7th, 2008Reed Finlay skis into Glacier Gulch. Though the valley is still relatively brown, with enough effort (read…’walking’), one can find lots of snow in the high-country. I toured up to Teepee Glacier yesterday with Reed and found lots of powder, though pretty dense…and not the easiest skiing snow, above 11K’ and in shaded areas. And [...]
Teewinot, East Face, Circa 1989, By Cameron Romero
by December 5th, 2008Note: This trip report is part of the TetonAT Trip Report Contest. Cameron is now in the running to win a FREE pair of Black Diamond skis based on viewer response and the TetonAT panel of judges! Good luck Cameron!! Cameron Romero above the ‘Narrows’ on Teewinot. Circa 1989. Rewind back to April of 1989 [...]
Guest TR: Is This Triple A?, By Mark Fellermann
by December 4th, 2008Dan carving calculated turns down the half-pipe. The voice came from above. It wasn’t God. “Are you guys OK?” Dan was pounding a piton into a seam and I was flaking the ropes. We looked quizzically at each other, and then up at the couple poised on the edge of the natural half-pipe. We both [...]
Skinny Skis Avalanche Awareness Night
by December 3rd, 2008For those that know about this great event, I am sure I will see you there, for those that don’t…be sure to attend if you can. Last year close to 600 people came to the Skinny Skis Avalanche Awareness night and we raised a bunch of cash for the Bridger Teton Avalanche Center and Teton [...]
Peak 8,700, North Face/Downtown Creek, By Andy Traslin
by December 2nd, 2008Note: This trip report is part of the TetonAT Trip Report Contest. Andy is now in the running to win a FREE pair of Black Diamond skis based on viewer response and the TetonAT panel of judges! Good luck Andy!! Andy Traslin on the way up Peak 8,700. We got off to another early 9:30AM [...]
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