On Easter Sunday, I tried to ski the Skillet Glacier in a day. I tried to avoid this trip as much as possible since I wasn’t that psyched about the 2 am start at Jackson Lake. It would also be my fifth day of skiing the backcountry in row and I wasn’t sure how strong […]
The Tetons
I played hooky from the rando race this weekend because conditions were just too good with a bunch of fresh snow and blue skies. The timing was just right and I took advantage of the good weather to ski a new line that I have been looking at for many years with Bryan Feinstein and […]
Reed Finlay gets set to lay down a fat smear turn in the big snows on Friday morning. The crown of the natural avalanche can be seen in the upper right corner. I had plans last Friday to try and ski a pretty cool line I’ve been looking at for long time now, but the […]
Randosteve tries to stay out of the refrozen debris in the South Couloir of Shadow Peak. I’ve been getting out the past couple days. On Wednesday I was on a solo mission scoping out some lines, but only skied Turkey Chute. It was mostly boiler plate.I skied Turkey Chute and it was pretty darn wind […]
I skied Apocalypse Couloir with Harder last week. It was Brian’s first time skiing it and that gave me a good excuse to let him do most of the trail breaking. Thanks Bra! I also used it as a way to get my mind right so to speak and it was the first run on […]
Just posting this video before heading to the Geneva airport to head home. We stayed with Nicholas Combe one of the coaches of the Swiss Ski Mountaineering Team and his wife Severine Pont-Combe who is one of the top two, if not the top, female racers on the team. They were super hospitable and even […]
Wet and rainy conditions welcomed the racers, but Brandon French toughed it out and was the first American, and first in his start group, to cross the finish line. Challenging conditions for all racers and props to the other US team members for gutting it out to the finish. Italian Guido Giacomelli won it for […]
I managed to get out for some more mini-golf type couloir skiing before work on Friday. The objective was Moon Walk Couloir which drops into the south fork of Avalanche Canyon from Devil’s Ridge between 25 Short and Peak 10,696. Surprisingly I’ve never skied it before, so was pretty jazzed to get ‘er done! The […]
Sunrise from Granite Canyon trailhead. I was SO psyched to go skiing last Friday. Sunny days have been few and far between this season and I’ve missed most of them by being on the road or having to work. I was no doubt bummed when I saw the Moose-Wilson Road blown-in in on Friday morning […]
Reed and I skied these two lines yesterday Dubbed Canola and Peanut Oil. I skied a couple fun lines off of Olive Oil yesterday that I don’t think get skied very much…for a total of 7,000″ of vertical. The original plan was to go big out of the Death Canyon trailhead, but when Reed and […]
Very little traffic on the Pass for a Satuday. WYDOT made the stealth opening of Teton Pass Friday night after nearly two days of closures. I was going solo and must have checked the webcam 20 times waiting for some cars to start showing up on the webcam on Saturday morning. After a mediocre day […]
Note: Thanks to all those that have donated so far to the TetonAT Switzerland Fund. The biggest donation has been $100 (family…gotta love em…your too Loeffler) and the smallest has been $5…which I am just a greatful for. Thank you all for your support! Ghost skier sighting on Wimpys. Once again I got my days […]
Randosteve breaks off a cornice on top of Wimpys on Saturday. After the blizzard on Friday and with the 14” of new snow in the mountains on Saturday, Reed and I braved the high avalanche danger and ventured to Wimpy’s for a day of breaking trail though thigh deep wind drifts. The track was completely […]
Sliver of a moon in the morning I’ve been a little busy the past few days with work and TCSAR helicopter short haul training at night. I’m done with the classroom stuff for short haul, so next time I’ll be hanging below the ship flying around like superman. Yeah…just a little nervous about it. I […]
The start. Here are some photos from the Teams Race at Targhee this weekend. Thanks to Brad Boner who was over there shooting for the Jackson Hole News and Guide. Look for a story on the race later in the week. Zahan Billamoria, Wray Langdon, and Eric Wilbrecht battle for position at the start. The […]
NOTE: If anyone wants to ski free at Grand Targhee on Friday or Saturday and is willing to help set some skin tracks for the rando race…please call Andy Williams @ 307-353-2300. You can’t really see them, but these are the four couloirs I played in on my days off last week. Thanks to whoever […]
Randosteve boots up a couloir on Disappointment Peak as spindrift falls from above. Photo: Reed Finlay I got out on Wimpy’s yesterday and with 2′ of fluffy snow blanketing the slope it was unbelievable . Broke trail from the Maverick cut-off the whole way with rando racer Scott Coldiron who is in town from Boulder/Spokane […]
I haven’t been skiing Teton Pass much lately, but I want to give a shout out to WYDOT for keeping it open for those that skied up there during the big storms of last week. There was a comment and some discussion on a Teton Pass webcam post last week insinuated that WYDOT intentionally didn’t […]
I’ve been out all night on a TCSAR call-out in Unskiabowl on the Pass…our second call-out on New Year’s Day. Saved his life…and now I’m going to bed. Might take a couple days to recover. I’m sure most people have heard about all the big slides yesterday and I just hope not to have to […]
Reed Finlay rounds a windy corner in Shadow Peak Cirque on the way to the Sliver on Nez Perce. Last Friday started out with temps in the single digits and high winds predicted to bring the wind-chill down to -30F in the mountains. I met Reed at the airport before sunrise and headed up to […]