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The adventures continue on to today with one more day up at Jackson hole. We arrive around 9:30am after getting my board left behind, and rounding up the troops. The reports read that the base was 38 degrees and the top 22 degrees with 42 mile an hour winds so it was a little difficult to decide on layering. No matter the case we got on the mountain ready to shred. with my knee hurting a bit we headed over to Apre Vous to start. the snow was a bit heavy and the runs were fairly choppy, but with a little searching it was possible to find some good stuff. After a couple of runs there on to the Gondola to check out the conditions over there. found a few decent spots, but still on the search. Took up the thunder lift, looking to traverse to some good stuff. On our way across we happen to spot a little lip. It was pretty funny to come across actually, the lip seemed to have been built that morning but no one had hit it. They had attempted to hide the jump with tree branches and such but it didnt work out so great, we spotted it pretty easily. We checked it out then headed back to the chair ready to hit it this time/ Got over there and had some issues figuring out who would ginnea it, then some random rider blasted in and got firsties, so we all maned up and hit it. There was a few wild style hits and a couple of good ones, I was pretty happy with my fs 3. We grabbed some lunch and headed back up, we took a few more runs, met up with the team and decided it was about time to peace.
Back to the pad to dry up and rest up, tomorrow comes the backcounty.
-Seth
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So yesterday was the C.U. snowboard teams first day in Jackson Hole.
The team arrived the day prior Monday, after a nice 9 hour drive
starting at 4:30AM in boulder. Any ways we rolled up to the mountain at
8:45am hoping to catch first chair. But due to the lift ticket
situation and long lines I didnt get on the slopes till around 10:30
but then it was game on. We jumped on the tram and headed to the top
ready to rip the fresh light snow. It had been dumping all night and
morning so the snow was so so good. We followed a Jackson local out of
bounds and to some of the sickest snow ever, we went across a sketchy
open face and then down perfect untouched waist deep powder. After the
nice open field it was into the trees for just tons more perfect snow.
A few more tram runs and then onto an unwanted lunch with the team, and
back to the mountain. Decided to switch it up and head to the other
side of the mountain to hit some stuff off Apre Vous. We hit some
really good lines on boundary line, so stuff that we had found 2 years
back. We did some more party laps trought there and then headed back to
the tram around 3PM, tram laps were pretty sick in that they would take
about an hour, involved a bit of hiking and always had perfect snow.
Got done with the tram runs around 4:10PM and was very ready to get
back and ice the knees. Oh also in between lunch and Apre Vous I took
one lap through the baby park which involved a 6ft bs 720 to heel catch
to concussion. apparently I was knocked out for a few seconds and then
came back saying I was knocked out. Pretty exciting little event.
