Jackson Hole stoke thread...2015-16!!!

[tarponhead]

Did you find any 170 RTMs yet? The Casper Demo Center demos Völks for only $10 an hour. The 81's are the best ski around, but I think the 84 comes with the famoue Uvo vibration damper if you don't mind lugging around the extra 3 cm of width. Seems like a pretty good trade-off. Regardless, RTMs are the best ski around, you can't go wrong with any length or width. I think Matt Edge texted me last week and he told me he's looking around for RTM bargains.

Cease and desist!

[RootDKJ]

8 minutes ago, tarponhead said:

 

Cease and desist!

 

OK 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Hey All,

 

I'm back from the first ski day of my 15th trip to Jackson hole.  I first went in 2002 and have gone every year from 2005 to the present.  We left for the mountain at 740am and were one of the first cars in the ranch lot which has free parking for groups of three or more. We got our tickets..my ticket, JFDans and Atomic jeffs were already purchased through central reservations and NMSki took advantage of the season passholders deal and it was around $450 for his 5 day ticket which would normally be about $135 per day or so.  

 

We managed to get to the gondola by 820am and had first civilian gondola with our buddy Dennis who's skied everyday so far this season except two weeks when he visited family in Michigan.  It reminds me of the movie Aspen Extreme as TJ Burke was from Michigan as well.  Dennis also hooked us up with a baggie of his award winning caramels..I swear he has some sort of side deal with local dentists in town. 

 

First run was amphitheater to the thunder lift which was pretty tracked up by the wallets who pay big bucks for early lift privileges with instructors.  Then up thunder did left side of grand was pretty untracked with some deep 10" plus spots top left of the run right under the thunder chair. Up Sublette to 10 sleep bowl to the cirque which was my favorite run of the day. Ten sleep was deep and untracked and lots of untracked in the cirque as well although the entrance was a little funky. 

 

Back to the Thunder quad which had a full Corral lift line and it wasn't even 10am yet. 7" in the hole sounds like a porn movie but it sure gets the locals out. Then Laramie bowl which was pretty nice on the right side lots of fluff..up sublette which had a short line to bivouac woods which was all good snow..mostly lightly tracked powder then traversed a little bit to the left of rendezvous trail which was prettt rocky and bumped up. We were gonna take sublette to the Hobacks or Alta chutes but that line was a full Corral and I'm an impatient fuck so decided we should ski down to the tram. 

 

The tram line was about 30 minutes and I didn't wanna wait in it so I was a Jerry and split up from the boys and walked up to the gondola which had a couple minute wait in the singles line..I skied some of the woollsy woods to the stash park and town to the Teton lift.  Up Teton lift and into the apres vous area which didn't have that much new powder and made my way back to the gondola.  Up the gondola again. I thought about getting a hot dog or soft pretzel and Gatorade at the top but the lodge looked packed so I skied down under the gondola and some dude took a nasty wipeout and I skied down with one of his skis to him.  I was such a nice guy that I helped the old southerner get his red rear entry's into his skis on a 30 degree pitch.  

 

I then met the boys over on apres vous. They said the Hobacks were ok..I wanted to ski them today but they'll be there tomorrow and I've skied them at least 50 times before. We skied over to the Teton lift in variable conditions including some ice and nearly bare crowd on the steep groomer under the Teton lift one of the steepest groomers ever. Up the Teton lift and all of us were a little tired and hungry.  

 

We we got our money's worth on the last run which included some stash park action, some woods, some crusty snow and lower Sundance which was like skiing in Vermont without the drive complete with a bunch of herp de deeps.  I wanted to go to the mangy moose but I knew it would be jam packed so made the executive decision to go to the alpenhof with its slippery wooden steps.  The alpenhof was half full.  We had a nice waitress who was about 6'3. I had Ghoulash and split a sausage platter with three kinds of sausage and two soft pretzels with Atomic Jeff, had some Arnold palmers which is the most refreshing on alcoholic drink and JFDan and NMSki had Veal Schnitzel sandwiches on bagettes which looked good.  All the boys had beer and lunch was under $100 total which is a bargain right at the base of a world class ski resort.  It started dumping hard as we were eating and it was more of a graupel as we drove back to town. 

 

Was a nice first day..I've had better and I've had worse. Don't let the reports fool you the lower and mid mountain is pretty thin and still lots of rocks. I probably hit about 15 rocks today. Skied 22,000 vert by my calculations...I'm calling today a half powder day as we had a few pow runs but it wasn't as epic as I imagined.  Complaining about a half pow day at Jackson hole is like complaining that your model girlfriend isn't a good cook lol..it's Petty like Tom.  

 

Im gonna have a beer or two as Atomic Jeff edits the photos from today and tonight is the start of the dog sled race so downtown will be packed I think the Mexican restaurant might be a good option as it's a few blocks from town square and maybe go with NMSki into town for an after dinner drink.  Tomorrow MBike Mike and Nastar Glenn arrive and the following day PARidge arrives.  Was a fun day and my first non blue mountain day of the season..JADIJH

[AtomicSkier]

Half a powder day today...some playful terrain.  

[tarponhead]

2 ding dings for not starting a new thread but 4 gold stars for a great report in an awesome place so I guess your still ahead

[toast21602]

NICE! Would look deeper on RTMs though.

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Watching it snow on the webcams..winter weather advisory for tomorrow.  Should snow 2-4" overnight and 4-6" while skiing tomorrow and 3-5" snow tomorrow night and Sunday 50% chance of snow.  

[Shadows]

Learn how to stream.

[theprogram4]

have fun!

Edited January 26, 2018 by theprogram4

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

1 hour ago, Shadows said:

Learn how to stream.

????

[AtomicSkier]

2 hours ago, Shadows said:

Learn how to stream.

We’re in a hotel.  It’s a fucking miracle I happened to have an HDMI cable in my laptop bag.

[theprogram4]

Good to see you guys out there on the annual trip, you guys are 6-7 PASRs deep which is awesome.  Honestly, those pics look better fresh snow wise than possibly all of my 8 lifetime days out there lol.  Hope it keeps snowing on you guys.  In exactly a month from now, I will be packing my stuff to leave Jackson for a flight home in the morning.  Here's to hoping it snows non stop from now til then!

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

1 hour ago, theprogram4 said:

Good to see you guys out there on the annual trip, you guys are 6-7 PASRs deep which is awesome.  Honestly, those pics look better fresh snow wise than possibly all of my 8 lifetime days out there lol.  Hope it keeps snowing on you guys.  In exactly a month from now, I will be packing my stuff to leave Jackson for a flight home in the morning.  Here's to hoping it snows non stop from now til then!

TP4 if it's a pow day will your dad line up early for first chair/gondola/tram???  We wouldn't have had first gondola today if we would have arrived even 5 minutes later..was a miracle...

[Shadows]

2 hours ago, AtomicSkier said:

It’s a fucking miracle 

 

26 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

was a miracle...

Praise the lawwwd

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

7" new last 24 hours 4" new overnight. 

[guitar73]

meanwhile, back in PA.....reporting zero new in last 24 hrs....

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

5-10" new expected in the next 24 hours according to JH avalanche and up to 14" new according to NOAA. 

 

Current view. 

[theprogram4]

Just now, guitar73 said:

meanwhile, back in PA.....reporting zero new in last 24 hrs....

tuesday and friday are possibilities

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

On the third civilian gondola. About a ten minute delay for avalanche bombing. Snowing hard at the base harder at mid mountain 

[Shadows]

1 hour ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

 

Thats it? that looks like 1000' vert tops. shouldve just stayed at blue and saved some money.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

3 hours ago, Shadows said:

 

Thats it? that looks like 1000' vert tops. shouldve just stayed at blue and saved some money.

 

That's the cloud layer...I'm laughing so hard..thanks for the smile..your friend..SaltyPecker

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Sorry for the lack of updates..today is a top ten day here...first five runs almost all untracked..next five runs still plenty of fresh.  This sums up today!!

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Some preview shots from NMSkis iPhone. The pro photos will come later. 

[zzslope]

Great reports from JH, thank you for sharing.