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| Home Sweet Cabin |
In the end, we had 10 guys show up in Jackson Hole to shred some pow pow. Here's how it all panned out: I flew in to SLC to catch a ride with Sean and Patrick and their friend, John, to Jackson Hole. Adam and Foday flew into Boise and caught a ride over with Andrew. Lange and Jordan pulled an all-nighter from Bellingham. And Joel Man drove down from Bozeman. We all rendezvoused at the Twin's family friend's cabin outside Jackson. It was a cozy little cabin with two beds, but plenty of floor space and loft space.
In order to save the ski day for Joel's arrival, we decided to spend Friday building a kicker in the Teton backcountry. However, Lange and Jordan decided to ski because they have money. None of the remaining group had skins or AT bindings so our only choice was to bootpack in. The closest that we could get to the mountain slope on an open road was via the driveway of an unoccupied log mansion so we parked our car there and began the arduous bootpack up to the open face. The snow was thigh deep so the going was very slow and frustrating.
After we managed to get everyone to the top, including Foday, who was recovering from knee surgery, we quickly built up a good size kicker off a small boulder in the middle of the field. Adam and I acted as the photographers, while the the Twins, Andrew and John each took turns hitting the jump. In the end, Adam was the only one that was able to stick the landing and ride it out. Sean, in his usual chumpish behavior, lost his ski after he ripped it off mid flight, and the flowing fruitless excavation resulted in a bombed out landing area that was unsuitable for further jumps. Thus, preventing myself from a potentially painful and humiliating crash. After I located Sean's rogue ski towards the bottom of our bootpack, we all hiked out and met Lange and Jordan at the Mangy Moose at the Jackson Hole Resort for a round of Moose Drool.
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| Andrew |
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| Patrick |
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| Adam |
The evening concluded with Maker's Mark 46 on the rocks and numerous games of Tourettes before the allure of our sleeping bags pulled us off to sleep.
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| Sean, Bryan, Foday, Patrick, Andrew, John and Adam |
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Bryan
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| It's hard to fit 7 dudes and ski gear in a Forerunner |
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