Good news Teton skiers! It looks like spring might finally be moving in to the Jackson Hole region next week. (Maybe?) I know it has been a snowy winter and most folks are chomping at the bit to get into the high peaks and hit that line they have been thinking about all season. And [...]
Archive for April, 2011
Teton Skiers: Choose Your Line Wisely
by April 29th, 2011Chased By The Sun
by April 29th, 2011It seems like Norway and the island of Svalbard are the hot new spots for destination wilderness ski mountaineering right now. As a land with 24-hours of sun, located above the arctic circle, with glaciers, fjords, beaches and steep lines and peaks that few have ever seen…who could ask for more?! I tried to make [...]
Kip Garre Dies in Split Mountain Avalanche
by April 28th, 2011It is with great regret that I report that ski mountaineer and Tahoe resident Kip Garre, and his girlfriend Allison Kreutzen, were recently killed on Spit Mountain in the Eastern Sierra outside of Bishop, CA. Reports indicate that the pair were caught in an avalanche and took a long fall in the Split Couloir. The [...]
Now That Takes…
by April 28th, 2011I’ve never skied naked before, and I sure as hell haven’t ski naked and launched a huge kicker at the same time. But if I did, I’d sure want to make sure I stuck the landing. OUCH!!!
Broken Thumb, Doc’s Thumb or Ulnar Collateral Couloir
by April 26th, 2011While waiting for the bigger lines in the park to stabilize, I got out recently with Reed Finlay to ski a line on the north side of 25 Short that we have both both been eying for many years. Although 25 Short is a rather tame and low angle powder run, the lines on its [...]
Rando on the Radical FT
by April 25th, 2011A couple weeks ago, I was able to do a fair bit of ski touring on the new 2011 Dynafit Radical FT binding due out this fall. Dynafit touts the Radical FT as a true step-in tech binding and includes it in it’s FreerideTouring category of bindings. The Radical FT has many nice improvements that [...]
Missing Skier’s Bodies Found in GTNP
by April 23rd, 2011UPDATE: Thanks to the persistent week long efforts of a variety of local and national agencies, search and rescue personal have located and extracted the bodies of Walker Kuhl and Gregory Seftick from Garnet Canyon today. Their bodies were located under 13′ of avalanche debris, packed up against a boulder and still in their tent. [...]
-URGENT- GTNP, Garnet Canyon Closure
by April 22nd, 2011In an effort to guarantee the safety of the public, as well as search and rescue personal during potential avalanche control work, and to preserve any remaining evidence that may be useful in the on going search for the missing persons in the area, Grand Teton National Park will be closing Garnet Canyon to public [...]
Frozen Whippet
by April 21st, 2011Maybe I should have oriented the whippet so the pick was at the bottom and not near my face. Then again…maybe not. I know this has happened to you at least once. After a number of ski days in a row last week without warming up or drying out my gear, I arrived at the [...]
Once Bitten Twice Shy in Quartzite Canyon
by April 18th, 2011Randosteve launching with the sunrise from Colter Bay in GTNP. Click all photos for larger image. After a long day skiing in Waterfalls Canyon and one day off to recover a little, Reed Finlay and I went back up into the northern range to investigate a ski line that we have both been eying for [...]
Got Sunburn?
by April 17th, 2011Soooo…I was out skiing on one of those greybird/mostly cloudy/mountain snow-shower days last week (pretty much like every day last week) and of course, I didn’t use any sunscreen since it didn’t seem like the sun was really out. Well, at the end of the day (and after I got out of the shower) my [...]
Doane Peak, East Ridge Couloir
by April 16th, 2011Reed Finlay heads towards the fog layer on Jackson Lake and the East Ridge Couloir (red line) of Doane Peak. Click all photos for larger image. Yeah, I’ve got a hit-list of ski descents that I want to get done, but sometimes you need to act impulsively and go with the flow and not have [...]
Now That’s A Test
by April 14th, 2011I was asked the other day if I wanted to test out the new Dynafit Radical FT binding for 2011. So…10.5hrs, 18+miles, 8k+’ vertical, 3 descents, 3 liters of Nuun water, 2 ProBars, 4 GU Chomps, 3 pieces of cake, sunburn, and 2 bloodshot eyes later…I’d say it was a success. More later… Got slough?
Trigger
by April 12th, 2011While skiing this steep line in the northern range yesterday, a 12-18″ slab released to my right on the fourth turn. Luckily, it didn’t pull-out above me and I was able to ski away unscathed. You can see the crown lower on the ridge on the right, and if you look close enough, the powder [...]
The Double Rainbow Video Of Skiing?
by April 11th, 2011I know many of you have seen the Double Rainbow Video (if you haven’t seen it, you really are missing out and need to spend 3:30 minutes checking it out), destined to be an internet classic and now with over 26 million views, but is there a skiing equivalent? Well, we may have found the [...]
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