4 - STEPPING OUT Jackson Hole News&Guide, Wednesday, February 8, 2012 MASONS OF JACKSON HOLE MADAME X PRESENTS CENTER PRESENTS WINTER FEST WINE TASTING & SILENT AUCTION MOTOWN HEATWAVE JH SHOWCASE February 10 February 11 February 19 5:30 pm $25 6:30 pm 7:00 pm $5 Center Theater Lobby Center Theater Center Theater Come join us at the premier event of Winter Fest 2012, the first annual Winter Fest Wine Tasting and Silent Auction! It is guaranteed to be a fantastic evening of wonderful wines, fabulous silent auction items, loaded with fun and fellowship among friends and neighbors. This event is presented by the Masons of Jackson Hole and the proceeds will go towards a long term project of renovation, repair and restoration of the historic Masonic Lodge building located on King Street. Come one, come all, for the time of your life! Admission is $25.00 and includes a souvenir wine glass. Must be over 21 to attend. Madame X presents a Motown Heatwave! It’s Off Square Theatre’s biggest fundraiser of the year and always a lot of fun! Enjoy delectable delights, spectacular entertainment and tons of fun! As a special edition this year, dance and get down to the Motown sounds of local favorite Calle Mambo!! The event begins at 6:30 and we HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE that the fun may NEVER end!! Tickets are available through the Off Square Theatre Company office or by calling 307.733.3021. The Jackson Hole Showcase is an alllocal, deep-winter, cabin fever-busting evening of entertainment. Musicians, comics, dancers and performers of every ilk – solos, duos, trios and bigger bands as well – make up the roster. Mountaineering minstrel James Booth assembles the talent and emcees the evening of melody- and merry-making. “As amazing as it is to find so many performers of such high quality in our neck of the wilderness,” said Booth, “it’s even more remarkable that we have such breadth and variety – folk and bluegrass a-plenty, sure, but also jazz, rock and classical music, comedy and dance – the pool is deep and wide.” HOST: JAMES BOOTH ALSO AT THE CENTER MAR. 9 Who Dunnit? TICKETS Center Theater, 3:00 pm, FREE Center Digital Programming Art Association of Jackson Hole Center Theater Lobby By Phone: 307.733.4900 Online: www.jhcenterforthearts.org Center Box Office: 265 S. Cache St. Open noon-5PM, Monday-Friday and two hours before any ticketed performance FEB. 12 Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 2 Please remember to use the Parking Garage when attending events at the Center Theater. www.facebook.com/jhcenterforthearts www.twitter.com/jhcenterforarts JAMES C. 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How to get in a quick pass lap before work ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² ([FXUVLRQ6NLWRXUWR.%5LGJH 'LVWDQFH5RXJKO\DPLOHVNLQIURPWUDLOKHDGWR GHVFHQW 7LPH1HHGHGKRXUVFDUWRFDU &RQYHQLHQFH+LJKDTXLFNGULYHIURPGRZQWRZQ DQGDTXLFNH[FXUVLRQRQFH\RX¶UHWKHUH ±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±± gering a couple feet down in the snowpack. Nobody had skied the middle of Avalanche Bowl since the most recent cycle of snow, and it looked ripe to live up to its appellation. KB Ridge, skier’s left of Avalanche Bowl, looked like a safer option given the conditions: The ridgeline, trees his past summer, I highlighted and other tracks comforted us. Off a quick, convenient mountain the right side of the ridge, we dropped bike loop on Teton Pass. Now I into a fun zone that felt like a natuwant to share one of its winter coun- ral terrain park. The undulations of terparts. the hill and the concavity of the gully Shorter jaunts appeal to me not created a little playground for us to out of laziness but, rather, out of bounce around in. the desire to get out in I’ll stop myself here betight time frames. In an fore I begin with the cliideal world, I would plan ched metaphors of roller ahead, get up early and coasters and floating on go on a long adventure evclouds that so often litery day before heading to ter ski writing. I will add, work at night. But alas, however, that the combiI’m only human, and my nation of the slope angle best intentions fall by the and abundance of snow wayside when I dare to was the perfect recipe for sleep in, go out to breakeffortless skiing. fast or catch up on some Park Dunn-Morrison Where the run begins reading. My solution: to flatten out, tracks Embrace the leisurely morning and merge from the right coming from abridge my ski plans. The Claw. Ski tracks fan out, reconThe southeast side of the pass of- vene and fan out again through this fers numerous options for short, easy open field before they eventually ski tours. From the parking lot at the bottleneck onto a curvy singletrack top of the pass, a mellow skin track that I can only describe as having traverses the ridge out to Mount Elly. lots of “whoopdees”— you know, the Depending on your time frame, you rollovers that will toss you off your can start skiing at multiple points skis if you’re not careful but can be along the ridge and still end up in the tons of fun if you’re ready. same drainage at the bottom. Follow this singletrack all the way When time crunches, I like to to Old Pass Road. There will be a coupark at the bottom of Teton Pass ple of sections of side-stepping, but if on Trail Creek Road so that I know you’re accustomed to skiing Granite exactly how much time I’m working Canyon, you get a chance to work on with when I begin my tour. With this your left-legged side-stepping skills out of the way, you don’t have to al- for a change. Old Pass Road is the wide, packedlot an ambiguous amount of time at the end of the run to retrieve your out path that leads all the way to the car at the top. This makes planning parking area at the end of Trail Creek how far along the ridge you can go a Road. From there, you can either ski or walk back to your car at the other little more accurate. We set out on our tour amid a bed end of the road, depending on the of clouds conveniently perched around snow conditions and how much you 8,000 feet: the elevation of the skin care about your skis. Beware of uptrack along the ridge. This made for hill traffic and moose as you try to a warmer, more humid hike than we keep your speed up. I came around a corner a bit too fast last year and had anticipated. Given our particular time con- nearly hit a moose head on. As always, be prepared to ski in avstraints that day, we were able to make it as far as Avalanche Bowl for alanche terrain. Understand the risks our descent. This 30- to 40-minute and take any precautions possible to skin is mellow, a great opportunity to avoid getting into trouble. We are forchat without exerting too much ener- tunate to have a lot of recourses out gy and a nice ski date, if you’re look- there to help us make safe, educated decisions in the backcountry. ing for ideas. Having studied the snowpack and –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– avalanche activity of the past weeks, Park Dunn-Morrison is excited Jackson we were wary of the weak layer lin- Hole finally got some snow! 7 Excursion