Barring multiple avalanche warnings and overall sketchy snow conditions, it’s petty hard to sit around the house or wait in lift-lines with a bazillion other skiers, and I’ve been trying to get out into the backcountry and ski what is available…without getting killed in the process. After getting denied and turning around at 8k’ in [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Waaaaayyyy Remote Trigger
by December 31st, 2011TetonSnowInfo Summary For Weather/Snow Geeks
by December 30th, 2011For those of you that just can’t get enough weather info and love to crunch the numbers and study graphs, TetonSnowInfo has created a nice Snow/Weather Summary Report web page that puts all of the past month’s weather and snow information into easy to read graphs. You can pick different snow and weather stations to [...]
New Teton Mobile Avalanche/Weather Forecast Site
by December 29th, 2011Just in time for the epic avalanche cycle we are about to enter is the release of a new mobile avalanche and weather website for Teton County, called JHAvi.com. You might ask what makes this site better than the BTNF 7AM forecast that gets emailed to your phone, I mean it doesn’t get any more [...]
Knee Pain and Barometric Pressure
by December 28th, 2011I don’t know about you, but my knee has been killing me over the past few weeks. I’ve had a couple surgeries on my right knee (ACL reconstruction/Spring 1994, meniscus clean-up/Summer 1996) and it often pops, clicks and swells up on occasion. Some say that certain types of weather patterns can influence joint pain and [...]
Wow…Someday, Baffin Island.
by December 26th, 2011Thanks to Jordan Manley for putting together this video from a ski trip to Baffin Island last spring. It reaffirms my need to visit the area and explore. Not looking forward to the 130km snowmobile ride, though.
Merry Christmas to YOU!!!
by December 25th, 2011Recent First Descents of Mount Cook and Tasman by Fredrico Varingo
by December 22nd, 2011While some first descents get lots of attention, others often trickle by unnoticed. Because of that, I just wanted to give props to these potential first ski descents by Italian Fredrico Varingo, who is reported by Aspiring Guides of New Zealand to have made first descents of both Mount Cook and Mount Tasman this past [...]
Plum Guide and Dynafit Radical Tech Binding Woes?
by December 21st, 2011In the world of AT tech bindings, not only are there new “players” entering into the market every year (mainly copying many of Dynafit’s expired patents), companies like Dynafit are continually pushing binding designs and innovation to make the bindings we use…better. While companies attempt to test their products to the full extent prior to [...]
TetonAT Video: Okie’s Thorn Couloir
by December 19th, 2011Here’s is a little video stoke (it’s a little slow and mind-numbing) from skiing Okie’s Thorn Couloir last week with Reed Finlay. It’s a pretty obscure line, but the couloir sits directly skier’s left of the Dike Couloir, a popular descent on Garnet Canyon/Glacier Gulch loop-tours. It also runs below a sharp pinnacle, called Okie’s [...]
Name That Couloir
by December 16th, 2011Suprise Pow Day
by December 15th, 2011Blue-sky and powder is no disappointment…YEAH!!! Man, it was nice to have a little surprise powder day today and the sun even burned through the clouds to make it that much more stellar! There sure seemed to be more new snow than the 2-3 inches reported this morning…at least where the wind blew it into [...]
Maximizing Walk-Mode ROM of the Black Diamond Quadrant
by December 14th, 2011I don’t know if it is because here in the Tetons we often have a lot of flat-ish terrain to cover before we really start skinning uphill, but I’ve really become a fan of a large range of motion in the cuffs of my AT boots. I often ski wearing Dynafit TLT5 Performance boots, which [...]
Modify What?
by December 12th, 2011I spent a couple hours the other day modifying some clothing. Can you guess what I did? After having a few articles of clothing with this design, I will never wear one skiing without it again.
Ka-POW!
by December 10th, 2011Making the best of it, as Randosteve finds some soft snow at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort today.
Adventure Film Festival Coming to JH
by December 10th, 2011Update: The venue for this event has changed to the Town Square Tavern. Just a little shout-out for those that might want to check out some cool films this weekend. The Adventure Film Festival will be in Jackson this Saturday, from 6-9pm at the Jackson Hole Playhouse. There [...]
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