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# Back to Shadow Peak
- URL: https://blog.novaugust.net/back-to-shadow-peak/
- Published: 2016-01-07T19:53:01.000Z
- Updated: 2016-01-07T20:04:11.000Z
- Author: Matt Enlow
- Tags: shadow peak, post, grand teton national park, tetons, Jackson, skiing, backcountry, #Import 2026-06-21 14:43

Mr. Stech invited me out for a Sunday tour to Shadow Peak with Jake, Katie and Mike. It was neat getting back out there; I first skied Shadow almost exactly [two years back with the Swedes](https://blog.novaugust.net/shadow-peak/).

Just like that day two years back, the sky did really neat things as we prepared to sail off from the Taggart Lake parking lot.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/01/P3150004.jpg)

The Tetons [still hadn't seen snow](https://blog.novaugust.net/resort-skiing-teton-pass/) which made the skin track up the mountain into something of a monster. With the weather on our side we took a long break at the top, enjoying the view and watching skiers first boot up and then ski down the Sliver of Nez Perce.

![Shadow Peak](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/01/P3150014.jpg)  
*Shadow Peak proper*

![The Sliver](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/01/P3150030.jpg)  
*The Sliver of Nez Perce. Spot the skier?*

![Skiers waiting](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/01/P3150028.jpg)  
*A party of skiers watch and wait for their turn on the Sliver*

Our line was nothing quite so ambitious as the Sliver.

We started with a short fun run through small trees...

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/01/P3150045.jpg)  
*Katie*

.. which then set us on a long, elevation-losing traverse. Mike and I kept ourselves entertained with some painfully forced air-time shots, because we are *bad ass*.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/01/P3150120-2.jpg)  
*Gnaaaaaaaar!*

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/01/P3150131.jpg)  
*Broooooooooo! All up in that backseat baby.*

We eventually made it to the same gully that Martin and Andrea and I skied down back when.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/01/P3150142.jpg)  
*Jake*

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/01/P3150167.jpg)  
*Mr. Stech*

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/01/P3150202.jpg)  
*One more for Jesus!*

I feel like this post really should've just been called "Matt and Mike goof off for the camera."

After loading up the cars, the group reconvened at Dornan's, where Mike and I forced Matt to watch us get single-pint-of-Pakos drunk. Is that a weird way to end a post?

I feel like that's a weird way to end a post.

But I don't really have a better ending. No big piece of wisdom or single sentence to sum it all up or anything.

Huh.

Awkward.