The 1,700 vertical-foot bootpack up Mt. Glory off Teton Pass here in Jackson Hole is a daily tradition for many Jackson locals, as the pounding one-hour hike gains you awesome backcountry skiing in every direction. But whether you're hiking Glory or doing a small hike inbounds at your local hill, bootpacking can be an awkward, exhausting pursuit.
We here at TGR thought we'd pass along a few hacks we've learned over years of sweating it out off Teton Pass that should help you get to the top with less energy and more comfortably. With all these following tips, the goal is to set yourself up as much as possible for an aerobic workout in which you're being efficient and staying comfortable and dry so that you're not a cold, sweaty, exhausted mess for the ride down.
The temptation is instead to overdress, fog up your goggles, and wear out your body with poorly-secured skis or boards and by keeping your boots tight and your shoulders above your head as you battle up the bootpack. Don't do it!
If you're on a hike where you're going to be carrying your skis or board, strap it on relatively high to keep your board(s) from knocking your boots as you try to hike. Generally, this means fastening the bottom strap on your back just below the back binding or heelpiece. If you've got an A-frame ski carry system, bring a Voile strap to secure the tips to each other.
You're going to want to loosen the boot buckles and power strap on the upper cuff of your boot so that you can comfortably lean into the mountain without having to waste energy balancing on your toes the whole time. The more of your boot you can keep flat to the snow, the less energy you'll use.
Balancing with your ski poles on the way up is a big help and energy saver, but the temptation is to hold your pole handles up high like when you're skiing. I see many people trying to navigate steep sections like this, and end up with their hands way above their shoulders, quickly wearing themselves out.
More well-traveled backcountry skiers eventually invest in adjustable ski poles with grips that extend lower down on the pole, or simple wind a strip of duct tape a third of the way down the rental shop poles they stole so they have something to grab onto during a hike or while sidehilling on the skintrack.
On the bootpack, I'm constantly readjusting my grip my poles, moving up the pole if it's flatter or farther down as it gets steeper. On more vertical sections, I'll even just jam the poles flat against the snow sideways so I can lean farther into the slope, nearly crawling on my hands and knees. If I'm going horizontally across the slope, I'll keep a longer pole on my downhill side and a shorter pole on my uphill side. The goal is to keep your shoulders and arms level and make the balancing as easy on your core as possible.
following Jake Lo's Clover guide for clean install of Mojave, and need a bootpack for E6230 i7 cpu 3ghz. Should I just use the one for High Sierra, or does someone have a Mojave bootpack. I've been successful over the years using Chameleon on an E6230 and an E6220 both of which were i5s. Clover is new to me and seems more complicated, but required for Mojave.
and the Mojave bootpack Jake Lo linked to above and although the clover UI was perfect, and there were lots of lines of post, the screen goes blank. Mine, however is a Dell Latitude E6530 ( -hardware.org/?probe=906439ca69 )
After the screen had been blank for a while, I tried plugging in a HDMI cable connected to a 24" display and nothing. Then tried pushing a bunch of keys on the keyboard and the OSX Install text to speech started talking to me, so I think that means it progressed to the OSX install, but couldn't drive my screen for some reason. It's really close, but just not close enough!
In your link above (post from October 6th), your 6230 bootpack includes FakeSMC.kext, as it did in HighSierra. But in the E6X30 bootpack from November 26th, you include VirtualSMC.kext and SMCBatteryManager.kext.
During the Fall of 2023, the Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, will be accepting volunteers to assist the Aspen Highlands Ski Patrol with pre-season snow disruption efforts in the Highland Bowl and on the frontside of the Aspen Highlands Ski Area. The Highland Bowl is a unique place for skiing and riding and would not be open without the dedicated efforts of our community volunteers. Here are the details:
Some days, boot packing at the ski area involves long days spent outside in severe winter conditions at high altitude, marching up and down in the steep avalanche starting zones. The work is extremely strenuous and is comparable to mountaineering. All the inherent risks of that sport are here also, including falls or possible avalanche involvement.
Other days bootpacking is much less extreme. When the weather is calm and sunny, and we ride the lifts back up the top Loge after each lap in Temerity, Steeplechase and Oly Bowl, the bootpacking may not be as strenuous.
Boot packers will be contacted by email when the boot packer voucher has been entered into the ticket system. After receiving the email confirming that the boot packer voucher is in the ticket system, contact any ticket office to redeem your voucher.
We were now heading up the uptrack leading to the base of the Hospital Bowl. After a shorter-than-expected ascent, we emerged from the thick tree cover into Hospital Bowl. I was almost blinded by the intense sunlight reflecting off the white blanket of the treeless slopes up ahead.
Moving onto Plan B, we traversed across the summit of Ursus Minor. At least, we got to bag a peak. The final bootpack was definitely exposed and technical, requiring a few rock climbing moves. Typically, ski boots are a hassle to climb in, although, in this case, the stiff rubber sole gave me some serious grip on the maze of tiny rock ledges.
Our journey across Ursus Minor Mountain ended with an icy but bearable ski down the Connaught Valley, followed by lots of stoke, and some cold brews at our local bar. What an epic route that I would recommend to folks with decent ski-mountaineering skills!
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