Today was sadly our final day in Jackson Hole. Â The weather is going to be cloudy tomorrow, and being a Californian, well, I don’t ski in cloudy weather, period. Â So, we’re headed back to Tahoe where there haven’t been clouds for a month and we won’t have to worry about encountering them for at least another month. Â Thanks God!
But, before our voyage west we felt it appropriate to have a look see at the much talked about Teton Pass. Â It was described to us as a “quick boot pack up to awesome terrain.” Â I’ll agree with the awesome terrain, but the 40-minute booter didn’t exactly feel “quick”. Â I think it’s yet another testament to how hard these Jackson Hole kids charge.
After the boot pack we traversed out to a zone we think may be called Chicken Scratch. Â The terrain was unreal, but the conditions weren’t. Â It turns out that above freezing temps for a week can even hurt the Wyoming snowpack. Â Dropping in we found wind-board, rain crust, breakable crust, 2-foot-deep sugar snow, and our Tahoe favorite: Â MANK. Â We still tried hucking a couple smaller cliffs and paid for it dearly. Â Some good crash footage, tho.
Lower down in the trees we did find some perfect hoar frost covered powder. Â This put the smiles back on our faces and as soon as we got un-lost in the Wyoming wilderness, we cruised back to the resort for some serious groomer madness.
The groomers at Jackson are dreamy 2,000 vertical foot beauties. Â On my 192 Atlases with no edges I had little to no control every run and couldn’t stop laughing.
Basically, Jackson is fun no matter what. Â Even the groomers rule.