The End of the Season

Jackson Hole Mountain Resort closed for the season April 5. April 7th, snow started falling again, and kept falling for a few days, so we took advantage, and hit some new lines.

Wednesday, Rachel, Brant, and I went skinning off the pass. Visibility wasn't great, but it was a great time.

Top of Mt Elly

 We skinned up to Mt Elly, and then descended Avalanche Bowl. Pretty cool line.

Avalanche Bowl!

 You basically follow an avy path, and under other avy paths (The Claw) all the way down. Good thing the conditions were pretty safe.

Towards the bottom we hooked up with Old Pass Rd, and took it down almost to Wilson.

Rachel showing us how its done.

Still dumping snow....tomorrow anyone?

Thursday? Time for more. Brant, Jess, and I went for the bootpack side of Teton Pass this time.

 Unsure of where we would descend, we looked at a few lines from the top of Glory.

Tuckermans?

We finally settled on a favorite, Calvert's Ridge to Big Piney (aka Major Jim).

Major Jim

 Interesting snow lines as we dropped into Major Jim. And then the always beautiful Coal Creek bobsled course out to the road.

Friday, Looking for one more good one, Brant I went after it again.  Brant was leaving town Saturday morning. so this was it. We opted for Little Tuckerman's.

We weren't sure where to drop and how to run it out. We scoped as best we could, came up with a plan...

Trying to scope out a line.

And then Brant dropped in!

A few minutes later, I saw him pop out at the bottom and I went for it. And it was awesome.

Getting out to the road was interesting, but we made it. And what a way to end the season.

I had hopes of another go on Saturday. Even though Saturday didn't work out, it was an amazing ending the the winter. 

Now WHAT?!?!