Brandon, Eric, and I decided to go on a backcountry touring adventure. We woke up early and cooked a tasty breakfast with eggs, potatoes, onions, peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms, and cheese. Delicious. Our original plan was to either go to Teton Pass or go out of bounds at the resort. After a long debate, we ended up going North of Jackson to Gros Ventre Road. Even with the early breakfast, we got a slow start leaving the house at about 10:30.
Our first destination: Shadow Mountain. After arriving at what we assumed was the trail head, we decided that it looked like a long flat tour before reaching anything worth while. The only people we saw were on cross country skis. We turned around and kept driving. After heading down a long random road with incredible views, we reached a gate. Closed for the Winter.
Finally we decided to start touring up a hillside that had some tracks going up it. There was only a few inches of snow and we were probably on rocks. The weather was beautiful. We saw a wind-lip in the distance and made that our destination.
The three of us spent a couple hours hanging out in the sun and taking turns shooting photos and dropping the lip. We saw a fox and a herd of elk in the distance. Couldn't have been a better afternoon.
These photos are from Brandon. He got some good photos of me today...

On our drive home, we saw a great view of the Tetons. Eric (aka Gramps) was rocking out to Lady Sovereign in the backseat.
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