Skiing the Middle Teton

this wind is insane maybe seventy miles an hour worst guy not even getting back down everything's turned to boilerplate dangerous icy skiing really dangerous conditions right now somehow because of the mountains that we enjoy so much the air gets trapped it's kind of like Mother Nature is trying to smother us with our own pillow pollution that we've created and so here we are and we just you know there's no visibility it's ugly it's cold and so we're getting out we're trying to get to the Tetons we're gonna go and try to ski the middle Teton I think the drives home back pretty fast cracked it I don't have four kids complaining wonder what to be everyone else we want just getting our first glimpse of the southern end of the Tetons a little bit worried because those plots look like they could cause problems I love to adventure but I don't love it until I'm in the middle of it I actually hate showing up for an adventure a lot of times if someone came up to me said hey let's just go home tonight I'd be like yeah let's do it I got a cool Drive I got to see a place and go home because I could build up so much anxiety was why every morning I wake up to do an adventure I'm in a bad mood I feel terrible I got stomachache but as soon as I get going and started climbing a mountain or whatever and the Sun comes up then I'm like oh I'm so glad I'm here I hate adventures at the beginning these are skins he's going the bar on the ski I can go it's smooth going that way and then it's sticky going back the other way which is very good closer in on that so anyways you could slide him forward but they don't slide back on the snow just attach these at the top of the sea and then I just run these skins right down the center of the ski so that you cover all of the basic cept for the edge the steel of the edge there they just stick right onto the ski all right good morning oh my gosh all sorts of stuff with my pants one of the perils of eating food in the dark surprise when you turn the light on right now did he just pull up behind you no Blake's got pulled over and it doesn't look like he has registration it turns out that they have nighttime speed limits here which is interesting anytime its morning time I guess it's dark dark time speed limits so it's a great way to start the morning getting a ticket Phil I feel some sympathy for Blake and I'm not a man who feels sympathy easily we just got pulled over by what could possibly be the nicest police officer in the world he asked us if we had any questions if he can help us out with anything if anyone knew her going skiing it's a incredibly nice police officer that's all speeds its way in 60 that's when our speeding again with set the cruise could be a great way to start the morning say we have a we want ahead just that way and steady just hit it towards that Canyon let's just stick to this and it starts to go left we'll go right I just don't feel very good we've only gone about two miles not really tired I just don't feel good I kind of feel like I might have diarrhea coming on which isn't uncommon on adventures maybe it's a little bit of anxiety maybe it's a little bit of eating too much on the road trip too much soda yesterday you can see the canyon we're gonna go up behind us and it looks like we've got some weather moving in like I said we're hoping to beat that storm not supposed to be huge but up there at 12 13,000 feet it'll be enough to ruin your day oh yeah that's you everything up to this point the last two and a half miles been flat but what was it what was the calculation he did like we're gonna be 1,500 feet per mile the rest away so easy more it was nice well but it looks like it's about to get steep looks like fine I'm glad you see you're not doing any better than me in track I've only slip backwards a handful of times since they last turned on this camera but this place is just cool actually awesome could be a better word not a lot of places deserve the title awesome Tetons one of those places no that's right dude we got like so have 4,000 feet of climbing 4,000 in like a mile and a half is that yeah that's steep might be hard to believe looking at the way they're just now blue skies and stuff it bad weather is on the way but the real storm is probably just behind these mountains just waiting to pretty hard here when we were coming up here so we knew we might get into some weather but we're just getting to about 9,000 feet you can see up ahead where we're headed is all socked in with a storm what we're in for we could get up there and be a complete disaster and have to turn around we might get up there and be fine just kind of lower visibility glad you had the whip it totally pull that up and show but that's for this may look like some kind of medieval weapon zombie situation but this is called a whip it it's just an ice axe and what it does it allows you if you're slipping to just eat like you can make that noise if you want I'm going to torque into the snow and then you drag it and it slows you down or around its dad's doing the eye and then disembowels you either scenario as possible I just hope that the first scenario is the one that I encounter and I just have a little practice down there the weather is definitely turned on us we went from skiing in long-sleeved t-shirts at 20,000 feet anyways this weather it is windy and the snow is helping me in the face I have to get on some goggles we're gonna change get out some warmer gloves with Oscar the Grouch over here when he comes out of his garbage can hey stop help my stuff's falling onto the ground and sliding the blowing and everything's filling up with snow just too much stuff to put on take off this wind is insane seriously maybe 70 miles an hour worst cut about even get back down everything's turned to boiler play it is a dangerous icy skiing so we're gonna try to get a little bit lower and find some other stuff to ski make our trip worthwhile all right I think we got out of the worst windy part although you can still hear it ripping and roaring but behind us I mean he's just skinny too windy visibility was almost zero I'm sure you can hear the wind and see it let's be quite Shh stop talking if you're watching this all these there's some miracle we're not getting hit by that so anyway we're headed back down hopefully we'll get out of this wind soon because I can't feel my face and I could possibly be the worst dissent I've never done on skis it wasn't even really fun at all but I don't regret coming up and giving it a shot cuz adventure wise that was something I've never done in a place I've never speed before so I think it was it was totally worth it but as far as like a skiing descent you know something that's fun that you think of like skiing at a resort it wasn't snow like what was so crusty then you stay up on top of it and then sit down any when you try to make a turn it just throws you off even though the skiing was terrible I I don't regret coming at all because the adventure aspect of this trip was really great any bad weather something we've never done before really awesome rugged mountains and so I'd say it was a success overall something I'm really glad I came to do we're just pulled into a little town called lava and it's famous for their hot springs I don't think there'd be a town here if there wasn't for the hot springs I'm gonna get my soaked on and I talked Danny into coming I knew he'd come up with excuses to not want to do it I think he yes he's a fear of germs but this is a really clean place believe it or not it looks clean I mean just from looking there's nothing unusual about this it's two guys heaven is so just two guys having a so there's no law against that maybe a hundred years ago there was but currently there's no law I guess you guys have absolutely so these are the springs they start up like 112 degrees at 1:00 in they gradually get coolers they go to the other side they pick the other sites maybe like 103 so anyways this is supposedly the hot pool where if you have Robbie in your pockets you can boil it as you sit in the water itself then when you leave you can enjoy the warm snack that you've created during your soak you

Channel: Mediocre Amateur

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Keywords: skimo, tetons, backcountry, skiing, 100milesfromnowhere, adventure, travel, jackson hole, middle teton, wyoming, backcountry skiing, mountains, dynafit, craft, mammut, gopro, lava hot springs, 100 miles from nowhere, weekend warriors, black diamond

Id: xo4s3D_5O78

Length: 16min 41sec (1001 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 25 2016