Arrived back to the Tetons early this week and was greeted to about a foot and half of new snow up high. We skied a lap on the SE ridge of Glory on Wednesday that felt like winter, snowing and blowing. Here’s the proof.
Bernie arrives at the top of Glory
Like I never left
Bernie the friendly ghost
Teton Pass welcome mat
Bernie gets some mid April pow
Bernie on Teton Pass
Thursday was supposed to go blue in the morning and warm up quick. We had to get a fairly early start. We decided to go up Taylor Mt first thing in the morning. We drove over the pass at 7:45, and the glory lot was full, what a joke. We continued down to Coal Creek parking area and there was one car there, what a joke. We started skinning up the SE ridge, and I decided to set the whole skin track, I was feeling good.
Bernie nears the top of Taylor
The wind was blowing and it was pretty cold up top. We were eyeing the east face, but there was significant loading from the previous storm.
East face of Taylor
We decided on the south face, which is a great 2800 vertical descent. I dropped first and was greeted to 2000 vert of creamy powder all alone down the south face. Our group reunited and we continued back to the car down the James Bond track out of Coal Creek. The south face is such a great run, alot of finely spaced trees down a consistent fall line with untouched pow, great first two days back.
Bernie cruises Taylor
Glad to be skiing Taylor again
I love Wyoming, Great pics. Nice to see your getting some great spring snow in the tetons. Happy Holiday