The Race Division course will ascend 6,000 vertical feet of skinning and boot pack climbing, covering almost the entire area of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. The start will ascend the groomed runs up Apres Vous Mountain, turning earlier than the top, onto the Togwottee Pass Traverse (skating this traverse is an option), Then Skinning up through Moran Woods, turning along another traverse to the base of the open, steep, glades up to the Crags...Up and over the Crags, and skiing steeply down into Casper Bowl, where a skin to a bootpack leading steeply up to the Headwall. The Headwall Traverse will lead across this high ridge and down then up and over into Tensleep Bowl. Skinning up and across Tensleep Bowl brings racers to the base of infamous Corbets Couloir. RACE Division competitors will boot pack up the resorts signature couloir, with a rope dangling at the top for those feeling the exposure. Climb up and out of Corbets couloir, put on your skis and make your way out into Rendezvous Bowl, around a gate and then down...down...down almost 4,000 feet following the course down Cheyenne Bowl, South Pass Traverse, Lower Sublette Ridge..all the way to the valley floor at Union Pass Traverse. Finally, skate if you can, or skin up the low angle Union Pass (under the horizontal lift) and catch U.P. Connection all the way home (note, follow signs to the Tram NOT the Gondola...making sure not to get lost in the final hundred Meters!!! Finish Line is at the starting line area. Good Luck!
RECREATION COURSE
In honor of the toughest terrain at a ski resort in North America...you get to travel with the Race Division on most of their course. But, you'll skip the Crags climb, Corbets Climb and Buffalo Bowl climb...giving you approximately 3,500 feet in climbing and descending. A good test of your ski touring skills and end of season fitness.
