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For two years I have been keeping an eye on the Tetons in hopes if hitting a good mid winter window that would allow me to get into the hart of the Tetons and ride some big classic lines in winter conditions. That window finally presented itself last week so Chris Edmands and I drove out to hook up with Teton staple Bill Dyer and one of my favorite shred companions Sage Cattebriga-Alosa to recon some potential zones to film later in the year when the snowpack stabilizes. Here is the blow by blow for two of the 5 days we were there.
4 AM start. Hiking with down pants and two down jackets.
Hit a wind slab at 9AM an hour from the summit of our objective and are forced to turn around.
10 AM Find good snow and ride good lines.
1PM Sage hits a huge air….lands perfect on a small tranny and rides away clean.
4:20PM watch the sunset from a high ridge.
6 PM realize we are running low on fuel.
7:05 PM Sage saves the day, finds water.
Day two.
4AM start. Snowing hard.
5 AM ride low angle powder in the dark.
7:45 AM Sun comes out as we are standing on our first lines of the day.
10:15 AM start an avalanche on a face next to us as we skin up a ridge to our lines.
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10:30 Drop 3 cornices, start three slides, and go back down our skin track to ride a mellow shoulder.
1:45 Ride an isolated spine line at lower elevation.
2:30 Ride threw a natural arch.
3:20 PM Edmands falls in a river with 8 miles left to skin.
7PM make it back after a hellish traverse that resulted in 2 gnarly falls on my split.
7:15 calculate we covered 20 miles today.
Tetons are very big. Remind me of Europe with out the ice. Tetons are very cold. We would have to ride with water bottles under coats, Clif Bars would have to go under your armpits before they could be eaten and whiskey does not freeze.
