Climbing and skiing the three Teton Classic lines over three days. This was a lovely immersion into the Tetons and experience these lines in some of the finer conditions they can be in. A huge thanks go out to everyone on these mountains for their camaraderie – Specifically Zack Little and Will Howard.

The three lines in this episode are the Grand Teton’s FordStettner, Middle Teton’s East Face to Glacier Route, and Mount Moran’s Skillet.

The Classic Flow is a multipart series that will dive intimately into the journey of Michael Wirth (a 24 year old ski mountaineer) climbing and skiing 31 of the Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America in just a single season. I hope you subscribe to stay tuned into the many more to come soon.

I embarked on this journey due to the fear of imminent last descents among these lines. With the climate changing rapidly, our snow is disappearing in many places. As a kid from the Aspen Valley, I grew up with Chris Davenport’s, Art Burrow’s and Penn Newhard’s book, The Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America, looming as a distant dream. Cody Townsend’s FIFTY project has also been a sense of motivation and inspiration to take on the challenge of skiing a variety of these lines – what an adventure? Thus, I set out in January of 2022 to ski as many lines as possible in one season to discover what was possible from the logistic, technical and endurance capacities of myself.

Carly Valerious illustrated the animated intro sequence and worked with the talented editor Rainy Adkins to bring it to final animated form. I can’t thank these two enough for their work on this.

Follow @michaelcwirth on Instagram for real time updates on the project and more of what’s to come from this upstart punk ;)
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00:00 Teton Intro
01:45 Classic Flow Intro
02:22 Moran Ascent
05:52 Moran Ski Descent
10:12 Middle Teton Ascent
13:51 Ski Descent Middle Teton
18:02 Grand Teton Ascent
20:42 Ski Descent Grand Teton