The 2014-15 season had not been a great one throughout the West, and actually, Jackson saw less snowfall than New Hampshire that year. The season apparently peaked for the storm where Rosie and I skied 25 Short back in December, and had been underwhelming otherwise. When we set the dates for this trip as early May, we thought we'd be pushing the early end of the typical corn season, but unfortunately a lot of warm weather had melted the snow line even higher than expected in the couple weeks ahead of our trip. However, we made the most of it and had an excellent time.
The day after arriving, we decided to go for an acclimation day in the (closed) resort. We hiked for an hour or so to hit the nearest consistent snow, at the bottom of the Thunder chair.
Woohoo, on skins.
Tower 3 Chute...looking good, at least.
Clouds rolling in, making me anxious about what a thunderstorm would be like up there.
Alex not anxious. Green valley below.
After stopping to consider the eeather for some time, we decided to continue up and check out S&S/Corbet's fromt he bottom up, while looking over our shoulders for bad weather.
Dug a pit down low and got good results, so we continued up the gully.
Splitting into the S&S side.
Us being safe. Dug multiple pits on the way up.
And getting ready to cash in.
Me shredding the mashed potatoes to the best of my ability
Skiing some spectacularly sticky, gloppy snow out the cirque leading to the bottom of the Thunder chair. Brutal, quad-roasting snow turned out to be a recurrent theme of the week.
Hiking for a bit on the way out.
An finally skiing a few hundred vert of actually quite nice corn as a bonus down low, to wrap up the first ski day of our trip.
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