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Jackson Hole, WY Video (right click - save as)
Check out the video footage from the Jackson Hole trip. We really didn't film very much at all, but at least this will give you an idea of the amount of snow and sweet terrain. Some of the major highlights of the trip for me were hitting twin slides and glory bowl. Doing laps on chivers ridge and hitching our way back up to the summit. The footy includes shots from in and out of bounds near Jackson Hole resort. Rock Springs and Four Pines near Cody Peak was insane and deep. Chivers rigde on Teton pass, Glory Bowl and Twin Slides on Teton pass and Two Oceans on Togwotee pass. Lots of deep deep untracked snow everywhere. It's been a great year for Utah, Colorado and Wyoming. Thank you mother nature...

1/14/06 - Togwotee Pass - SNOWING - Jordan and I made it up to Togwotee Pass a little bit late to hike "two oceans" on the drive into Jackson Hole. Tons of snow everywhere and a storm parked over the Tetons we were eager to get to the house and relax for the up coming pow fest. We'll get this on the way back.

1/15/06 - Teton Pass - Chivers Ridge - SNOWING - Jordan and I broke trail up "Chivers Ridge" early Sunday morning. After a short 30 minute hike you are on top of the ridge line with some sweet powder fields and open trees. We dropped down the ridge and headed to the traverse back to the hitch hike spot near the town of Wilson. We hiked a few laps and rode super deep Wyoming powder. Met a few cool locals, Meagan and Jill while breaking trail back out for another lap. Check out Meagan's site, www.raskolink.com

1/16/06 - Jackson Hole Resort - BLUEBIRD - The whole crew went over to Jackson for the day and it was rad. We did a tour of the mountain and hit some really nice backcountry lines out of the access gates. We hit Rock Springs and Four Pines area near Cody Peak. Unlimited waist deep powder turns back to the resort.

1/17/06 - Teton Pass - Chivers Ridge - SNOWING - We went back to hike "Chivers Ridge and Titty Mouse Ridge" today. Again we rode endless powder under greybird skies.

1/18 /06 - Jackson Hole Resort - SNOWING 9"+ - We got in line at the Gondola around 8:15am and it was packed. Gearing up for a huge powder day at Jackson everyone was out in force. The group got split up and Jordan, Adam, D, and myself rode the rest of the day. We found tons of sweet rock pillows, tons of powder, cliff drops, endless great terrain. Near the end of the day the pow was getting really choppy and tracked out.

Photo: Alex M. Rider: Dave, JP Location: Sheep Creek - Loveland Pass
We find ourselves at Loveland Pass again bright and early Saturday. Mike and I did a few hitch hike laps and found some great snow in the less traveled areas. The main chutes on the pass and main bowls are very tracked out and very wind blown. The last storm looked like it erased a lot more of the snow base, as we saw tree stumps and rocks not seen since late Oct. We shuttled the good areas on the front side and later met up with Ffej, Mark and Mark from Keystone. We decided to take a hike out the east ridge around toward Arapahoe Basin and hit Dave's Wave. Dave's Wave is a sweet backcountry run with a rad over hanging cornice most of the way down. You can jump off the cornice multiple times and the terrain forms a real nice natural half pipe down to the trees. Once in the trees we were rewarded with completely untracked deep powder and a few nice cliff drops. Ffej airs first, me next, landing in his bomb hole I end up tomahawking after the landing. Sweet! We make it back down to the Arapahoe basin lot and start hitch hiking back up, at this point we run into DrrrtyD and Meisha.. we traverse out to the ironing board and find a nice hip style jump with great landing, we all start throwing front side 3's and even some cab 3's. After hanging out here for a while, we shuttle a few more laps with them and decide to head to the bar. The snow was OK, but lots of wind and sun has killed the deep soft powder conditions. Probably won't be riding until Jackson Hole, WY next week. I'll be back in 10 days or so.