AtomicSkier Posted January 5, 2009 Report Posted January 5, 2009 (edited) We went to the Snake River Brewery last night for dinner. Tom and I both had wild game chili and a buffalo burger. Very good, and the beer was excellent. We both fell asleep around 9:30pm and didn't wake up until 7am, so needless to say, we were both well rested. We got in line for the Gondola at 8:55am, and we were the first ones. Due to the bluebird end to yesterday, it got extremely cold in the valley overnight, as cold as -25 degrees. When we arrived at the Gondola, the temperature was -20. It felt warm, lol. We took the Gondola up, and I wanted to try a Jackson Hole groomer, so we took Sundance back down to the base. Wow, you can get some serious freaking speed on that trail. I kept telling myself "Check yourself before you wreck yourself". We took the Gondola back up and did it again. And again. It was only 10:10am and we'd already racked up around 8500 vertical feet. We then hit up the tram for some serious vert. When we were at the top of the gondola, I saw a tram coming down, so I figured we could get right on that one, and we did. Big time inversion on the mountain, so the top of the tram was even warmer then the Gondola. It was actually really pleasant up top (a pleasant -5 degrees). We hit the steepest part of Rendezvous Bowl to Bivouac and then took the Sublette up. At the top of Sublette, we traversed over to Tensleep Bowl, which had untracked powder that we seemed to have missed yesterday. We continued on to the Cirque. The Cirque was awesome. Really light and fluffy boot deep cut up powder. Cirque to Amphitheater to the Thunder Chair. At the top of Thunder we hit Laramie Bowl, which wasn't as good as the Cirque, but still very good. We took the Sublette chair and then headed for the Hobacks. Hobacks were not that great. The snow wasn't as soft, and very choppy. Regardless, you really couldn't complain, it was still pretty good At the lift back to the base area, the current temperature was a balmy -8 degrees. It was time for lunch, so we pitted at the bottom. After lunch, we had a one tram wait. Rendezvous Bowl to Central Chute back to the Sublette Chair. We traversed to Tensleep and then to the Cirque for another round. It was just as good this time around. At the top of Thunder, we took a nice short cruiser under the chair to Thunder, and then into Dick's Ditch which was pretty cool. We boarded the tram for one last run as we wanted to catch the 3pm bus to watch the Eagles game. At the top, we took Rendezvous Bowl to Bivouac once again. We took the south path traverse to Gros Ventre as not to kill ourselves on the last run. No crowds, and still very good snow. The run of the day was Rendezvous, followed closely by the Cirque. We did 11 runs good for almost 29k vertical feet. It's supposed to snow tomorrow so I'm stoked Tom with Corbet's in the background... Laramie Bowl... Someone took the picture about 5 seconds too late when I was hitting the brakes... A random picture in the Hobacks... A crappy video of me in some cut up powder on the steepest part of Rendezvous... Edited January 5, 2009 by AtomicSkier Quote
moe ghoul Posted January 5, 2009 Report Posted January 5, 2009 F'in stupendous. J-hole, fresh snow coming, and the eagles are winning......sounds like another solid day. Dick's ditch is a fun run and Sundance is a bomber's wet dream..... Quote
AtomicSkier Posted January 5, 2009 Author Report Posted January 5, 2009 Nice pictures and video..it seems like you're starting to like Jackson Hole... Ya it's decent here...LOL. Thank god for boot warmers today Quote
Dan- Posted January 5, 2009 Report Posted January 5, 2009 Someone needs to send that rock. And i see someone was taking some chances, that rock in the lower left has a ton of boulders in the landing, if it's not taken HUGE. Quote
AtomicSkier Posted January 5, 2009 Author Report Posted January 5, 2009 Someone needs to send that rock. I was actually scoping that out There wasn't a way to ski up it though, it was pretty much a rock face on the other side. Quote
txhedg Posted January 5, 2009 Report Posted January 5, 2009 thanks for the reports.... im not from PA but you PASR guys are the best spot for me to get my JH stoke on before my annual Jan JH trip each year.....maybe its a coincidence, but for the past three years there's always been someone on here out in jh the week before i go. I show up in jh this saturday for 4 nites, so I hope it keeps snowing. PS - im in CT but have family members from bethlehem (hellertown, actually) who finally just left my house today from their holiday visit, so i guess ive got a round-about connection to many here on PASR given ive been putting up with them for the past week. LOL Quote
AtomicSkier Posted January 5, 2009 Author Report Posted January 5, 2009 thanks for the reports.... im not from PA but you PASR guys are the best spot for me to get my JH stoke on before my annual Jan JH trip each year.....maybe its a coincidence, but for the past three years there's always been someone on here out in jh the week before i go. I show up in jh this saturday for 4 nites, so I hope it keeps snowing. PS - im in CT but have family members from bethlehem (hellertown, actually) who finally just left my house today from their holiday visit, so i guess ive got a round-about connection to many here on PASR given ive been putting up with them for the past week. LOL Glad to be of service Even when it's not snowing, conditions are awesome. Coverage is awesome, though the hobacks will be much better after this weeks storm rolls through. Current forecast is for a good travel day on Saturday (cloudy) so hopefully you shouldn't have an issue getting in. Quote
Johnny Law Posted January 5, 2009 Report Posted January 5, 2009 Be careful snowpack is full on shitty.... Quote
AtomicSkier Posted January 5, 2009 Author Report Posted January 5, 2009 Be careful snowpack is full on shitty.... It is?!? JH Ski Patrol did an awesome job on saturday morning, when 11" fell the night before. They blasted the crap out of the place. Quote
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