{"id":70,"date":"2011-02-28T16:23:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T23:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2023-03-26T16:52:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T23:52:38","slug":"scrubfest-2011-cowboy-pow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/2011\/02\/scrubfest-2011-cowboy-pow.html","title":{"rendered":"Scrubfest 2011 &#8211; Cowboy Pow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of individuals loosely-related via <a href=\"http:\/\/splitboard.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">splitboard.com<\/a> have been getting together atop Wyoming&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Togwotee_Pass\">Togwotee Pass<\/a> for the past half-dozen years or so to delve their splitboards into the deep, Wyoming &#8220;Cowboy Pow&#8221; along the continental divide at the pass as well as on the steep flanks of the impressive Teton Range in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/grte\/\">Grand Teton National Park<\/a>. I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of joining this crew for the three seasons and each has been a delight not only because of the opportunity to ride exquisite snow in challenging terrain but because of the camaraderie of this fine group of folks as well. In both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0FhJuLwfItQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2009<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/9714092\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2010<\/a> I shot video and made an edit of those captures. <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/20458809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2011<\/a> was no exception and I was able to put together a short barrage of both the toil of skinning uphill as well as the joy of slashing down.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/20458809?h=b0950fcabb\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/20458809\">Scrubfest 2011<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/samh\">samh<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Experiencing the mountains in winter produces perhaps the most awe-inspiring moments for me. To climb to the top of them and look out over the landscape for dozens, if not hundreds of miles provides a view that little else tops.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5098\/5484673896_8af52b79f6_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5098\/5484673896_8af52b79f6_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Wade and Trevor high up in the Tetons<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I had the opportunity to demo a splitboard this weekend &#8211; a chance that I jumped at. I&#8217;ve not had any experience riding a rockered (aka reverse camber) board so when Will from <a href=\"http:\/\/sparkrandd.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spark R &amp; D<\/a> mentioned he had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonessnowboards.com\/boards\/solution\/\">Jones&#8217; Solution<\/a> available I grabbed it for a test with little hesitation. The reverse camber both rode downhill and skinned uphill like a dream and I&#8217;ll be researching that technology for my future splitboards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5138\/5484074733_c41546f255_z.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5138\/5484074733_c41546f255_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Jones&#8217; Solution splitboard and Spark R &amp; D Blaze binders<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5138\/5484675890_eb04652a43_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5138\/5484675890_eb04652a43_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Grand Teton and the Teton Mountain Range<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5020\/5484662294_e4aa9627f4_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5020\/5484662294_e4aa9627f4_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Rio, Trevor, Wade, and Jeramie atop East Angle Mountain<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5059\/5484624796_b016abdf0b_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5059\/5484624796_b016abdf0b_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Trevor earning his turns<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of individuals loosely-related via splitboard.com have been getting together atop Wyoming&#8217;s Togwotee Pass for the past half-dozen years or so to delve their splitboards into the deep, Wyoming &#8220;Cowboy Pow&#8221; along the continental divide at the pass as well as on the steep flanks of the impressive Teton Range in Grand Teton National &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/2011\/02\/scrubfest-2011-cowboy-pow.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scrubfest 2011 &#8211; Cowboy Pow&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snowboarding","category-weekend-trips","category-wyoming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samh.net\/backpacking\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}