By Jim Stanford on January 16, 2008
Ay, chihuahua!
Looks like a snowboarder went for a tumble down Taco Bell Chute last night. A cold tumble. The temperature at Jackson Hole Airport this morning was -15 degrees.
The debris ran all the way across Flat Creek but did not appear to form a dam. There is a layer of ice over the water at the bottom of the gully.
This dude looks to have been carried for perhaps 50 to 100 feet, before he got himself out of trouble and resumed making turns on the ridge. He probably crossed the creek and ordered a half-pound cheesy bean and rice burrito.
Sick, hermano.
Taco Bell Chute is a tempting poach. DG at The Snaz notes that it has been skied at least as far back as 1968, when a spring schuss of the sagebrush-covered hillside made a brief cameo in the seminal Barry Corbet flick Ski the Outer Limits.
But with the Amonstrosity and dozens of new trophy homes up on the butte, the deer and moose don’t have much room to roam anymore. Surviving the winter is hard enough without some dude invading their habitat and scaring them into starvation.
Good thing this guy wasn’t trapped in the debris or swept into the creek last night, else he would have been tostada.
Posted under avalanches, skids, snowboarding, sports, wildlife
Very clever title!
The afforementioned snowboarder did not wipeout, the avalanche covered his line. BUT, the descent does not count because he did not wear a sombrero.
as the afformentioned hombre who did this, here is the story:
Left my bike behind Gart sports at 8 o’clock on January 15th, crossed over the bridge at Meadowbrook, and bootpacked up. Did not encounter any wildlife, so worry more about the Mcmansions atop pristine hillsides than a lone snowboarder at night. Left from the summit at about 9:00 pm, called Mr. Vail who was in town watching to spot my line should anything happen. Dropped in skiers right of the chute for first few hundred feet, then into the chute, had made a few turns in the chute when I heard the whoomph above and cut out skiers right. A few seconds later watched the whole thing slide all the way across the river. Waited till the cloud had cleared and skied down. True, I was not wearing a sombrero. And speaking of the wildlife thing again, what is more offensive? Sleigh rides through the elk refuge with loud Texans snapping pictures, or skiing Taco Bell Chute in pitch black cold with no wildlife around at all?
Taco Boarder has a point. We should ignore all winter closures. They were probably created by wildlife biologists. Those guys never take into account that no wildlife would be around when someone wants to go up there.
Someday soon you’ll die,
Making stupid decisions for kicks,
I will fail to cry,
Knowing Darwin claimed another dick.
Oh, so taco bait thinks he’s a badass. Local above’s got your # and so do I. I watched you hike up thru the deer farm, and 3 of your lost kittens did also since you were there. You resemble un perro chasing wildlife to me, … figure it out quick, silver spoon boy. You think that if you don’t see it, it doesn’t exist. Whew, when will you punks (de)cease? At 9 I don’t see some gay on a tray; I’m sure I see a dog chasing wildlife.