Seven Sisters

Seven Sisters Powder Play
Togwotee Pass, Northwest of Two Ocean above Moccasin Basin
February 1st, 2009

Seven Sisters Ridge

Actually, I'm not quite sure what this little mountain goes by. Matt said folks from NOLS dubbed it the Seven Sisters (seven different chutes running off it). Works for me. It's a mountain and ridge line that sits just NW of Two Ocean Mountain. Not super big, but the aspects have the right ingredients for good powder. I've always wanted to scope it out.

Making my way up, Breccia Mt. in the background.

The weather was fantastic. I was kind of thinking about some bigger objectives today. The snow pack seemed to be stabilizing. The nasty November rain crust layer is still something to be scared for your life about though. This was evident as I drove up the pass this morning. The whole east face of Lava Mountain (http://landerbackcountry.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html) ripped to the ground, just a couple of days earlier...

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This made me reconsider bigger objectives. I was plum happy just to play in the pow.

Matt makes his way up, pausing for a sweet view of the Tetons.

On top of the ridge looking at all of the options.

Cornices galore, ripe for the plucking.

Matt spies a line.

The Matt Show

Sliding in to find a seat for the Matt Show. Ha!

Looking back at the Seven Sisters Ridge.

After a couple of runs in this area, we spied some more interesting, bigger terrain across the way a little closer to Two Ocean Mt. Since we had the sleds, we decided to load up and buzz on over across the way and try another mountain.

Matt nears the summit of a lesser peak just across from Two Ocean.

I pause and look back as I near the top. What a view!

Good stuff!

Matt takes a beverage break, just below the summit out of the wind, Two Ocean peak in the background.

We found some good pow and a great kicker on the first run down.

Looking down our first lines and the kicker and Seven Sisters ridge in the background.

Shad's hucking series- click to enlarge.

Just plain fun.

Our next run brought us up into a cliff band near the top. Matt hunkers down under a ledge and takes in another great view.

The view.

Moccasin Basin, The Mt. Leidy Highlands and the Tetons all spread out below.

Quite a comfortable little perch.

The black arrow indicates where we were- where we dropped from, click to enlarge the photo- if you can't find it. Our first run we dropped from the summit, a little high up- through the more prominent notch lookers left.

A look at the mountain from a little further away. The runs were probably about a 1000 feet.

This pretty much sums up the day. Another good one!