After a huge storm dumped snow for over a week last January, avalanche danger in Wyoming’s southern Teton range all but halted backcountry travel. But photographer Lucas Gilman and skier Trevor Hiatt headed to the back side of Grand Targhee Resort, where the shadowed northeastern aspect was relatively stable and the six feet of fresh provided “prime hucking conditions,” Gilman says. The face-deep snow filled Hiatt’s goggles after he landed a series of 30- and 40-foot hucks. This cliff, however, was closer to 60 feet, as Hiatt found out after a blind takeoff. The 15-below weather nearly froze Gilman’s camera battery, but they managed to grab this image “just as a patch of warm light came out from behind the afternoon clouds.”
