Another long and snow filled winter has come and gone in northhwest Wyoming. The usual crew here had our best ice fishing season yet and had many double-digit days with fish into the mid 20” mark on Jackson Lake.

The skiing both on Teton Pass in the backcountry and at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort left nothing more to desire. Good turns and apres beers at the truck were welcome off-day festivities from the daily snowmobile grind — leading backcountry trips into Yellowstone, chasing wolves, and across Togwotee Pass, chasing deep powder.

Excerpt from: A Day Riding Through Togwotee Pass

The lodge was adorned with moose and elk heads atop the gift shop souvenirs that surrounded the dining tables. A crowd of motorsports and sled enthusiasts still clad in gore-tex riding suits filled the room. Quickly the room was loud and rowdy — a cacophony of crude insults and an argument over trailer parking etiquette out front in the snow covered lot. Cheap domestic beer ruled the bar top and the smell of cigarettes emanated from unkept beards and bejeweled western-wear sweatshirts. The room was on a constant precipice between group shots of whiskey and an all out brawl — but the prime rib was spectacular.

As we drove the farm truck back towards Togwotee — somehow it ended that
“lunch pale” had to dive naked into the tall snowbank off the highway. It was five degrees outside and no amount of beer seemed like it could lessen the sting of the icy wall.

The next morning we met at the gas pumps for our last day of riding. I signed out to a region far south of Togwotee Pass; an area rarely visited with both deep snow and few marked entries.

Several close wolf encounters, along with Moose, Bison, and Bighorn Sheep added to the winter scene here in Jackson.

The River Range Adventures team has a few Turkey hunting weekends ahead before a salty trip to Baja to hunt Roosterfish from the beach.

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