Shadow Mountain (GTNP)

Touring in the Tetons: Shadow Mountain

Grand Teton National Park

January 8th, 2010

Lee and Ken lead the way up into the Tetons.

Funny how things pan out sometimes. I had to stay home from work Friday to hang with sick kiddos, which also made me cancel a ski trip with the school and my daughter for Saturday. So... I emailed Darran and let him know I had Sat open all of a sudden. He hooked me up with this crew and a tour they had planned in the Tetons, something I've been itching to do more of for a long time.

Although objectives like the Sliver couloir were in mind, the weather pretty much dictated tree lower tree skiing. Concensus was to hit Shadow Mt, and go from there. Powder/ trees skiing options were abundant up there as well as anywhere.

Darran and Matt bring up the rear (five of us total).

Starting to get up and out of the trees a bit.


Following a good trail- maybe with an inch or two of snow on it.


Approaching the top of Shadow Mt, weather getting worse by the minute. No big stuff today.


Matt waiting at the bottom of a nice shot.

Didn't get too many photos on this trip. The weather wasn't that conducive, and these boys wanted to ski... which was fine. We did four different runs- a couple over two thousand feet. Matt guesstimates somewhere around 7000 vertical for the day. Definitely was more than the 4-5k I'm used to putting in. I was cooked. The snow was good, a little wind effected, not the best of the season so far. It took some energy to turn in it, but was still soft enough to pounce off pillows and stuff. Lotta fun!

At the bottom (Bradley Lake) of the last run of the day.



Short video summary of the day (mostly hiking)... but hey, that's probably a good summary. Ha!

A look back at Shadow Mt and the last run we did (the white stripe curving down the center).

A fine day, good to get out in the Tetons every once in while. I don't do that enough.

Thanks guys!

With five inches of fresh and more falling, I couldn't resist getting out again, the next day. I did some touring with my kiddos in our back yard...

Powder pups (hounds in training)!