Togowotee Pass, WY 6/13/08

[salida]

We couldn't get enough yesterday, so we went back for an encore of WY pow.

Sidled our way up to Togowotee on our way out of town. Found rapidly warming 10 inches of pow at the bottom, 24-36 inches of less dense pow above 10,000 ft, and hard wind slab above 11,000 ft. It was freakin awesome for June, I'll put it that way.

I'll take an order of Grand Teton, please.

With a side of otterbody.

Lets warm this up with some bootpack stoke.

And some Tony Crocker glacier glasses stoke.

And some more boot pack stoke.

ENOUGH of that.


Grizzly arcin the windbuff up high.

Sometimes I lawn dart it.

Striped sweater stoke.

More sweater action.

Here is the money Grizz sequence. The second face shots of June...

 

[Admin]

That place intrigues me ever since friend Jim (who used to write here a bit but doesn't anymore) went up there last season. From what I understand it's primarily used by snowmobilers but also by a relatively few backcountry skiers.

Nice score!

 

[salida]

Togowotee is great (in my opinion) and gets nearly as much snow as the tetons. Most of the 'bilers stay down in the flat lands and don't venture to high up into the backcountry area. If your thing is couloirs then this might be the place for you. The pinnacle buttes area holds a lot of them.

Reminds me a bit of the Snowys in southern WY, an area that gets good snowfall, preserves it well, and sees little traffic. Here is a great picture of the snowys, little more than a mile from the road

credit summitpost.org

 

[Tony Crocker]

30-year Jackson resident Bob Peters has a ski streak that is probably over 100 months now. He's probably hit most of these backcountry places keeping it going. But usually not in as primo conditions as pictured here.

 

[ChrisC]

Togowotee is great (in my opinion) and gets nearly as much snow as the tetons. Most of the 'bilers stay down in the flat lands and don't venture to high up into the backcountry area. If your thing is couloirs then this might be the place for you. The pinnacle buttes area holds a lot of them.

Reminds me a bit of the Snowys in southern WY, an area that gets good snowfall, preserves it well, and sees little traffic. Here is a great picture of the snowys, little more than a mile from the road

credit summitpost.org

Nice get -- before the sun got it.

I'm guessing Togwetee is in a snow shadow with in the 300+ at most -- after the hole of Jackson. Just look at Jackson vs. Targhee for an idea.

I think 'bilers go everywhere if they are skiers. Friends in Telluride seem to endure Tom Cruise's Scientology outreaches as assistants in order to get his 1-2 year old toys/snowmobiles that go unused -- for nothing. Most bilers are not skiers - yet it seems to be getting more and more popular.

 

[salida]

I'm guessing Togwetee is in a snow shadow with in the 300+ at most -- after the hole of Jackson. Just look at Jackson vs. Targhee for an idea.

Chris, I'm not quite sure this is accurate. Togowotee is over 30 miles (as the crow flies) from the heart of the Teton range, and also after the systems move over the Tetons they can pick up additional moisture from places like Jackson Lake.

It doesn't hurt that Togowotee Pass is 9,600 versus 8,400 for Teton.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Grizzly finally on the scene to claim what is mine... Faceshots that is!!!

Look forward to some action later this week...

 

[Tony Crocker]

I'm with Chris on the climatology argument. I'm sure Jackson Lake is frozen solid all winter. The Jackson ski area is quoting recently from a higher elevation station that gets about 20% more snow than the long term site at 8,250. I suspect any bump in snowfall from elevation at Togwotee Pass is more than offset by being 30+ miles leeward of the Tetons.