by Jacob Urban | Dec 26, 2017 | Enhance Your Backcountry, Snowpack Update
December 26, 2017 Today we toured in the Northern Snake River Range over Edelweiss and skied the Shamrock into the Columbia Bowl drainage and made a few laps on the easterly aspects of the Columbia Bowls. The low angle slopes provided good snow conditions and safe...
by Jacob Urban | Dec 19, 2017 | Enhance Your Backcountry, Snowpack Update
On Monday, December 18, 2017, I took a walk up to the summit of Mount Glory in the Southern Teton Range. Our original objective was to take snowpack observations in the Great White Hump area. The wind and obscured visibility suggested that there were better days in...
by Jacob Urban | Nov 13, 2017 | Enhance Your Backcountry, Snowpack Update
A quick trip up to Togwotee Pass for a dig and a tour on Breccia Peak provided beautiful blue skies, some great turns and favorable observations in the snowpack. While our observations today suggested the snowpack is trending towards stability…we had a few take...
by Jacob Urban | Nov 7, 2017 | Enhance Your Backcountry, Snowpack Update
Following the multi day storm of the past week, we traveled out to Avalanche Bowl on the south side of Teton Pass. While the snowpack continues to gain strength and depth we had a few take aways from our observations. Pros: The snow pack is getting deeper…depth...
by Jacob Urban | Oct 22, 2017 | Enhance Your Backcountry, Snowpack Update
The snowpack in the Togwotee Pass Area is gaining depth but with a snow height of 78cm it is still relatively shallow. While there is little instability shown in standard snowpack tests it is important to recognize the current weak structure. This structure is the...
