Congrats to my wonderful local ski hill, Grand Targhee, for winning the 2009 Golden Eagle Award for Overall Environmental Excellence by a ski resort at the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) National Convention and Tradeshow going on in Florida. As I noted last month, Grand Targhee became the “first organization in North America” to have [...]
Skiing in the Tetons
Grand Targhee Wins Golden Eagle Award
May Day! May Day!
It’s May 1st and there’s more fresh powder on the Tetons again this morning, even down to 6000′ in the valley there’s a dusting. If the SNOTEL measuring is to be believed it looks like there’s about 4″ of new snow in the mountains, and the sun is shining! Could be a fun morning to [...]
A Parting Shot
Today was the final day of lift served skiing anywhere near the Tetons. Grand Targhee had good size crowds all weekend with the usual big turn out for its annual Cardboard Derby on Saturday and almost as many skiers today for the final day of the season. Since Jackson closed last weekend, there were noticeably [...]
Skiing Everywhere
Hooray for Aspen
I just read a report on Firsttracksonline stating that the Aspen Skiing Company signed on to a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal advocating for “both capping and putting a price for the first time ever on the pollution that causes global warming.”
I applaud ASC, but have to ask, where are Vail Resorts, [...]
De-Aspenization
In a previous post, There Goes the Neighborhood, I wondered about the future of the Yellowstone Club now that economic sanity is being valued even by people with enough money to live frivolously indefinitely. Has all the bad PR and gloating by critics and schadenfreudenistas permanently branded the YC as a new kind of toxic [...]
The Future of Winter
This has been a good news- bad news few days for those of us who love winter. Yesterday, an American President finally stepped up and told the car makers they had to improve gas mileage averages for their car and truck fleets ( meaning-less importing of foreign oil, less pollution, few dollars spent at the [...]
Skiing in Luxo-land
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 [...]
Ridiculous Skis, and Some That Are Not
Important update- please read the update I just placed at the end of this post. It seems the Carradan Ski company may be less than it appears to be.
I first read about Carradan Skis last year, rolled my eyes at skis with price tags beyond $10,000.00, and went on about my business enjoying the magical [...]
The Donald and the Yellowstone Club
Robert Frank is reporting that Donald Trump is considering bidding on the Yellowstone Club next month, butTrump claims to be skeptical about the viability of the whole concept of the club. According to Frank, the Donald is worried because the business of a private golf and ski resort, sustained by land sales and service profits, [...]
