Meriwether Fabrications: Jackson Hole, Wednesday, March 23rd

Just got back from a few days in Jackson Hole, Wyoming for a short ski trip. Honestly, I couldn't have skied another day...i'm worked! The 24 hours before we arrived it just dumped, and pretty much snowed up high on-and-off the whole time we were there. They got the single-most snow in a 24-hour period of 29" on Tuesday and we were in the tram line on Wednesday morning. To say it was an insane day would be an understatement. We both had some of the skinniest skis on the mountain and were the only ones who actually would consider using climbing skins to go uphill...go figure. It is a different culture up there for sure, lots of people whose lives revolve around skiing, lots of skiers with big balls skiing really fat skis with rockered tips and tails, hucking big cliffs, and generally doing big lines in really big snow. I felt over my head not just in snow.

We never do resort days for this long, especially where the terrain is so amazing and challenging or when the snow is so deep. My body isn't used to the bootpacking or all-about-the-down type skiing. With the long tram rides we got almost 20K of vertical in 5 hours or something silly like that, including two pretty good hikes to get fresher tracks, so we were pretty taxed at 3pm so we called it quits. Jackson is truly a skiers mecca.