Today we had the temperature inversion pattern which was most frequent during our previous Jackson visits in 2012 and 2015.
This was the most comfortable day for most people but not for us due to a blunder in timing. We skied four groomers on Casper and Teton before heading to the tram at 11:15AM. We forgot that “Friday is the new Saturday,” plus the nice weather attracted many more people to the tram. We got thoroughly chilled as the line is completely in the shade. Our timing was also unlucky, just missing the cutoff and extending our wait from 45 minutes to a full hour.
Once we got up top, here’s Liz under spotless blue sky in Rendezvous Bowl.
We easily restored body heat by skiing Middle Hoback. There was occasional crunch where the fall line tilted more south but overall very good skiing. Lower Sublette Ridge the prior two days had the best Lower Face skiing with 100% winter snow.
I wanted to spend my remaining time on Sublette, so we used the Bridger gondola and Thunder to get there. View of north side of Thunder:
We took a run in Amphitheater at far right while light was still good.
Paintbrush is at center right of the prior pic. Tower 3 Chute looks clean at a distance, but must not be as it was roped off at the top. FYI on that tram run I first skied past Corbett’s, which was also roped off.
From Sublette I worked my way down a very bumpy ridgeline to the Alta Chutes. 1 and 2 were roped off though 2 looked doable form the chair. The bump line continued toward Alta 4 but I diverted to Alta 3 here:
Later view of Alta 3 from the Sublette chair:
Liz had skied Bivouac trees, which I then skied for my next run. Liz had gotten chilled from the wind on the upper quarter of Sublette so she called it a day. I was curious to explore further on that ridgeline, which I later saw labeled as Pepi’s Run-on the map. I had seen groups of skiers skiing there while riding the lift. Skier’s right of the ridge was in the sun with some crunch but mellower moguls. There are nice lines that drop off skier’s right into Cheyenne Bowl but they are both south facing and steep. Eventually traverse tracks pulled left into the shade, rejoining the bump line above Alta 3 and 4. View down the ridge from there:
Pepi’s Run continued all the way to the base of Sublette. I rode the lift one last time and finshed the day skiing Tensleep Bowl, Amphitheater and Slalom. Total for the day was 26,200 vertical. Exhausted, we drove to Driggs and after dinner slept a solid 10 hours. We don’t get to Jackson all that often so the great terrain inspires us to work hard and push the limits.
This was the most comfortable day for most people but not for us due to a blunder in timing. We skied four groomers on Casper and Teton before heading to the tram at 11:15AM. We forgot that “Friday is the new Saturday,” plus the nice weather attracted many more people to the tram. We got thoroughly chilled as the line is completely in the shade. Our timing was also unlucky, just missing the cutoff and extending our wait from 45 minutes to a full hour.
Once we got up top, here’s Liz under spotless blue sky in Rendezvous Bowl.
We easily restored body heat by skiing Middle Hoback. There was occasional crunch where the fall line tilted more south but overall very good skiing. Lower Sublette Ridge the prior two days had the best Lower Face skiing with 100% winter snow.
I wanted to spend my remaining time on Sublette, so we used the Bridger gondola and Thunder to get there. View of north side of Thunder:
We took a run in Amphitheater at far right while light was still good.
Paintbrush is at center right of the prior pic. Tower 3 Chute looks clean at a distance, but must not be as it was roped off at the top. FYI on that tram run I first skied past Corbett’s, which was also roped off.
From Sublette I worked my way down a very bumpy ridgeline to the Alta Chutes. 1 and 2 were roped off though 2 looked doable form the chair. The bump line continued toward Alta 4 but I diverted to Alta 3 here:
Later view of Alta 3 from the Sublette chair:
Liz had skied Bivouac trees, which I then skied for my next run. Liz had gotten chilled from the wind on the upper quarter of Sublette so she called it a day. I was curious to explore further on that ridgeline, which I later saw labeled as Pepi’s Run-on the map. I had seen groups of skiers skiing there while riding the lift. Skier’s right of the ridge was in the sun with some crunch but mellower moguls. There are nice lines that drop off skier’s right into Cheyenne Bowl but they are both south facing and steep. Eventually traverse tracks pulled left into the shade, rejoining the bump line above Alta 3 and 4. View down the ridge from there:
Pepi’s Run continued all the way to the base of Sublette. I rode the lift one last time and finshed the day skiing Tensleep Bowl, Amphitheater and Slalom. Total for the day was 26,200 vertical. Exhausted, we drove to Driggs and after dinner slept a solid 10 hours. We don’t get to Jackson all that often so the great terrain inspires us to work hard and push the limits.
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