TOURS

Backcountry skiing or snowboard touring can be intimidating as a newcomer. Or even if you’re experienced. Unknown terrain, sketchy snow conditions, and avalanche dangers can turn the best ski day of your life into your worst nightmare in a hurry.

To stay safe and ensure the best routes and skiing, book a guided backcountry skiing tour with us. Your guide will take you skinning and powder skiing safely from Teton Pass and Grand Targhee to the best backcountry skiing the Tetons have to offer.

Our backcountry ski tours offer a great way for visitors or newcomers to experience an exhilarating sport that will keep you in shape and smiling.

Yöstmark Backcountry Tours is a nondiscriminatory permittee of the Caribou-Targhee National Forest.

PRICING

$400 first person

$100 each additional person

*Prices based on groups of 4

FAQs

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TETON PASS

EDELWEISS

Backcountry Skiing — Intermediate skiing skills; basic skinning skills.

Edelwiess Bowl is the classic Teton Pass tour! A gentle skin away from Teton Pass takes you to your first run and then you're off in the woods. Edelweiss Bowl itself is 800' of sweet powder skiing and provides easy access to many other bowls with similar opportunity. At the end of the day, we either skin back to the top of Teton Pass or follow gravity down to the highway at the base.

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GLORY

A 1600' hike up the bootpack leads you to the summit of Glory Bowl--no skins required! This tour is great for snowboarders or skiers who lack touring gear. But you have to be able to carry your board or skis by strapping them to your pack. You'll find multiple descent options, many offering almost 3000' of turns down to the base of Teton Pass where we'll leave a second vehicle to shuttle us back to the top.

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MAIL CABIN

MT. OLIVER

TAYLOR MOUNTAIN

Taylor Moutnain is a Teton Classic. The climb starts from the parking lot at Coal Creek and climbs 3000' to the summit. Though it's a challenging climb, you'll take breaks on the way up to enjoy the incredible scenery. Once you break out of the trees, you'll have spectacular views of the Teton Valley and the entire Teton Range. But the real payoff comes once you strip your skins and make turns in the biggest terrain the Teton Pass backcountry offers.

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TARGHEE SIDECOUNTRY

NOODLE RIDGE

You'll start with a gentle skin from the top of the Sacajawea Lift to the top of Peaked Peak, where you'll strip your skins and make turns down a beautiful powder run towards Teton Canyon. Depending on the group's energy level, you'll make multiple laps on the Noodle before skinning back to the top of Peaked for re-entry to Grand Targhee Ski Area.

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BEYOND MARY'S

A longer tour that accesses steeper terrain. You'll climb Mary's via the bootpack and head out beyond the ski area boundaries, where a rolling skin takes you to multiple skiing options. If you're feeling adventurous, you can ski 3000' to the bottom of Teton Canyon and then skin/skate 3 miles on a groomed track to the parking lot.

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