As ski season gets underway and riders look for those big storms to lather their mountains in snow, avalanche danger once again becomes a humbling reality. The need to educate and create awareness about the dangers are increasingly important as more and more skiers/snowboarders access the backcountry.
So, in support of Avalanche Awareness Night sponsored Skinny Skis, a Jackson Hole ski shop, Gregory donated the award-winning Targhee ski pack. One lucky raffle winner will walk away with Outside Magazine’s Gear of the Year Award pack, perfect for lugging avalanche safety gear.
The night will hold presentations, a killer gear raffle in which all proceeds support Jackson’s Avalanche Hotline, and keynote speaker, Dr. Ian McCammon. Dr. Ian McCammon is an avid backcountry skier, NOLS instructor and speaker on the cutting-edge developments in the avalanche field.
Presenters include, Don Sharaf from the American Avalanche Institute, Jim Woodmency from Mountain Weather, Jamie Yount from Teton Search and Rescue, and Mike Rheam from Bridger-Teton Avalanche center.
The event will be held from 6-9:30pm and costs $5 to enter, which goes to Teton County Search and Rescue.
It’s about that time, as those of us who live in more northern climes are well aware, for the blower to turn on. People are already hiking for turns in the Wasatch and elsewhere, albeit with caution mode on (hopefully). Those rocks aren’t too deep yet …
Which makes it good timing for a little Gregory gear school, heading into ski season. One of the beauties of Gregory’s award-winning Targhee and Drift ski and snowboard packs is that they carry skis and boards in a few different ways for different situations. However, because there’s a few options for attaching your snow toys, it’s also useful to have primer on the finer details.
Read on for some beta on how all this works. 
The word today: Gregory’s Targhee backcountry ski and snowboard pack won a 2009/2010 Gear of the Year Award from O
utside Magazine.
One of the most prestigious awards for outdoor equipment given out in the media world, the Outside Gear of the Year Award is bestowed on the very best outdoor and fitness products twice a year in a variety of categories - packs, skis, apparel to name a few - after extensive product testing by the gear-obsessed (that’s not a bad thing …) team down in Santa Fe. The Targhee won in the winter pack category, beating out 20-plus other contenders.
Coincidence that Grand Targhee on the east side of the Tetons got 14-plus inches last night in the first major storm of the season? I think not …
And yes, those pictures are from today. Get your Targhee ready for the ‘Ghee.
For a lot us, spring is on the horizon and on the mind.
But for folks in more mountainous parts of the northern hemispheres - Rockies, Alps, Sierras, etc. - it’s still the tail end of ski season, and this time of year can often bring some stellar days on the planks. There’s nothing quite like sk
iing corn snow in the morning and putting on shorts and flip-flips in the afternoon. Really.
The Utah-based FeedTheHabit crew are among those still thinking skiing. Though they’re also already thinking trail running and biking too, as you’ll see if you hit their blog, which is sort of a collection of all things adventure-sports oriented, from gear reviews to musings on their Wasatch surroundings.
After a season of use, Kendall Card of FTH (seen here about to get the goods) posted a review of the Targhee ski pack recently, giving it some nice props for how well it carries and a few of its unique features, like its ski-carry system. These boys seem to work in a lot of skiing despite professional careers, putting up FTH posts, and family life, so they definitely know their gear.
Now we’ll just have to get their brains to move on from winter, which, well … if you live in the Wasatch, skiing in May is probably A-OK.
