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