"Too Old" Skier Sends Jackson Hole's Most Feared Line

Originally posted on Powder | By Matt Lorelli | Last updated Jan 12, 2026 11:25 AM ET

I wrote a story for POWDER back in May of 2024 called 'The First Family of Jackson Hole's S&S Couloir'.

The focus of the story was Bob Kilmain, an East Coast transplant turned local legend, and his children, Morgan and Jack, and their impressive accomplishments on Jackson Hole's most feared inbounds line, S&S Couloir.

The Kilmains have left their mark on S&S (read my story from 2024 for the details), and Bob, the 40-plus-year-old patriarch of the family, is back this season with another impressive descent down the feared wallride.

For reference, S&S is located to the looker's left of Corbet's Couloir, the famed line under Jackson Hole's Aerial Tram. S&S is steeper, narrower, and typically requires a long wall ride down a sheer rock face, making it one of, if not the hardest, inbounds lines in the world.

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It's hard to hear over the winds, but Bob can be heard saying, "I'm too old" before dropping into S&S. He then immediately proved that he, in fact, is not too old to drop into S&S.

It's unclear how many times Bob Kilmain has dropped into S&S in the roughly 30 years he's been skiing Jackson Hole, but locals first started learning his name when he front-flipped into the couloir one day back in 2009.

Bob thought the runout from the traditional S&S wallride looked "bad" and came up with a daredevil's solution instead of bailing on the line entirely. "If I do a front flip from the Notch, then I could clear the bad parts," recalled Kilmain when I spoke with him for my story back in 2024. "So, that was the first time I did a front flip from the notch.”

Bob's daughter, Morgan Kilmain, became the first woman to ever drop into the S&S wallride back during the winter 23/24 season. She was just 20 years old. Her younger brother, Jack, later broke the internet by nailing the seldom-attempted leap from The Notch to the wallride, a line his dad, Bob, had pioneered more than a decade before.

Contrary to how we speak about skiing, skiers don't "own" the mountains they recreate in, but if any skier, or family of skiers for that matter, could lay claim to S&S, it would most certainly be the Kilmains.

Congrats to Bob on being the first to send S&S for another year running. We're inspired over here at POWDER.

This article first appeared on Powder and was syndicated with permission.

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