Jackson WITH Jared - A Redemption Attempt

After missing out on the previous trip and seeing the video dedicated to him, Jared was very eager to experience Jackson in the same manner.  Here's how it all turned out; you be the judge on his redemption attempt.

Jackson Without Jared

Going to Jackson Hole for the last weekend in February has been the best decision of the 2009-10 season. As temperatures reached 55 degrees in Ogden and Salt Lake City, we ski untracked boot deep lines.

Since the resort was skied out, Trevor and I decided that it was time to go exploring a little further out of the gates than we've gone before. Cody Bowl's warm up lead us to go out to No Name and ski the face and down into the canyon. The next day we lapped tree runs in the Magical Forest, low angled, but fun albeit, and finished by skiing out Four Pines. The whole trip we only took 2 gondolas, 2 trams, and 1 chair ride. Every trip is different and awesome.

Something was different this trip; our group agenda changed from skiing the technical big lines that we usually ski to just finding and skiing good snow. Maybe it was the fact that Jared bailed out on the trip for a playoff hockey game in his league and wasn't there. Well Jackson without Jared was an amazing weekend and this video is dedicated to him to show him how much fun he missed.



My Nomads readying for Four Shadows

 

Trevor stoked for the first run after a short hike

Feeling "good" after a 4 hour drive on 4 hours of sleep

No Name looking sexy

A future goal for a future trip

All in all a good trip

Jackson Hole Trip #2

Alright we made it out to Jackson Hole once again.

We arrived two days after the snow, but managed to get some good turns in on the Headwall during the morning on the first day. Unfortunately that was the highlite of my trip. I dropped Corbet's Couloir again: twice. I brutalized it the first drop. On the second day, I hip checked going into it, recovered for a bit, and then washed my tails out going down as I still had too much weight in the back seat. That really pissed me off as I really wanted to stick Corbet's. I did visit the Doug Coombs Cave afterwards and caught my breath. Enjoy the shots.

Jared waiting on top of the Headwall



Katie, Trevor, and my finger hiking up to the Headwall



Jared lining up a small drop on the Headwall


Corbet's Couloir


The Doug Coombs Cave


More Cave


The tight entrance which I had to duck


Looking out at the tram before I jumped the drop


Looking back up at Corbet's right entrance

Jackson Hole Super Weekend

Ok I'm way stoked. I finally got to Jackson. I grew out a killer mustache for my pass picture and now I get to ski this awesome terrain. In doing so I finally get to drop Corbett's Couloir.

So Jared, Trevor, and I left Ogden Saturday morning at 4:00 am......... uh 5:00 am. Yeah thanks for sleeping in Jared. To be brief, the snow was old and hard, but the challenge was fun.

So on day two I decided to drop Corbett's. Let's just say that things didn't go quite as planned. I sat on top of Corbett's studying the entry. The entry was full of uncovered rocks, snow knuckles, snow ruts, ice, and hard, hard snow. Now I am sitting there thinking about how horrible things could get, having the wind howl past my head, fearing failure and injury. This contributed to the intimidation I had already felt of the most famous ski run in America. I let the intimidation get to me and I committed my skis to go but not my upper body when I made my attempt. This caused quite the humorous tumble. Once I stopped sliding down the 50 degree slope, I laughed, looked up at Jared and Trevor, then continued down the couloir now free of the intimidation I felt just moments earlier. Enjoy the pics of my tumble. Corbett's 1 - Alex 0.

Corbett's here we go