I’m breaking blogging silence with some very good news. This morning Jackson Hole ski resort president Jerry Blann announced the resort would sell its unlimited season pass for $1255 until August 31st. That’s a drop of 25% from last year’s ridiculous price. A long, long overdue return to sanity for a resort with a huge [...]
Skiing in the Tetons
Jackson Hole Ski Resort Sees the Light
I Knew There Was A Good Reason!
I’ve been pondering offering up a mea culpa about this blog’s lack of activity- in an Olympic year no less, and one with much to celebrate as the US Alpine team rocked the Austrians, the Swiss and all the others.
The blog’s title says it all, Powder Blog. With little powder, there is little enthusiasm. How [...]
Too Bad It Can’t Always be This Way
I’m a partisan of this little boutique mountain range in Northwest Wyoming called the Tetons. Sure, they’re pretty, and pretty photogenic, but as a skier I know them to be the home some of the best skiing in North America, and as I’ve recently argue, the key to great skiing is great snow, or at [...]
Skiing Everywhere
The Five Peaks Ski Mountaineering Race
An exciting new ski mountaineering race, The Five Peaks, has succeeded in rousing me from my blogging slumber. Oh, to be young again and see a race up and down the seductive Ten Mile Range above Breckenridge! How can anyone with young legs resist? A race that starts with a skin climb of about 4000 [...]
Priming the Olympics Pump
While picking up milk at the grocery store today I checked out the magazine rack to see if I would be tempted buy the Olympics issues of any of the ski mags. I wasn’t very optimistic, but neither was I ready to see just one option: Ski magazine. It had a pretty pathetic dozen or [...]
Ski Racing Olympians
Thursday night it was standing room only at the Wort Hotel in Jackson when the Jackson Hole Historical Association hosted an evening with Pepi Stiegler and Tommy Moe reminiscing about their lives as skiers and Olympic champions. Both men succeeded in landing jobs in Jackson many years ago because they were Olympic champions, but neither [...]
Skiing in Luxo-land
The Ultimate Ski Lodge?
Thinking of staying at the ultimate luxury ski lodge? There’s a lot of competition, but The Hotel de Charme Les Airelles in Courcheval France is perhaps the ultimate in price anyway. Much Googling failed to turn up a bonafide room rate card, so perhaps this is a place where if you have to ask you [...]
Bad News for the Luxury Second Home Market
On Thursday Bloomberg (via Buisiness Week) reported homeowners with $1 million plus mortgages are defaulting at about double the rate of other U.S. homeowners. In September payments on about 12% of mortgages over $1 million were 90 dyas or more late.
Over the past year we’ve seen many luxury ski resort developments based on a real [...]
There Goes the Neighborhood?
The court battle for the ownership of the Yellowstone Club reached its denouement today and Sam Byrne and his Cross Harbor crew emerged as the victors according to New West’s report in the court’s decision. Like many skier observers, I’ve been watching this imbroglio with bemusement, not really caring much about who would be pronounced [...]
