Winter isn’t done with us yet. The powder keeps falling here in the Tetons. Yesterday the mountains received another 16″ new snow and more is predicted for today and tonight.
So how did this winter turn out for  powder skiers? Pretty good, I’d say- especially good if you ski Alta and Snowbird! Alta is reporting 676″ [...]

With my apologies to Paul Krugman for the low level of wonkishness this post will provide, I thought I’d provide one of his warnings in the headline.
When I say skier behavior to my friends they immediately think of liftline misbehavior, reckless actions on the slopes and foolishness in the bar. What does that say about [...]

It looks like it’s been a tough year for ski instructors and real estate agents in ski towns. We all know about the piling up of inventories of unsold properties across ski country and I’d heard anecdotal reports of a fall off in ski lessons. At last week’s Mountain Travel Symposium, an annual affair where [...]

Yesterday I had to drop in to a local building supplier’s yard to get something for a project I’ve been avoiding since December’s first snows. Ten days into official Spring, everything in the yard was still covered with several inches of snow from the weekend’s storms. One of the employees there, a person I know [...]

The Rossignol Group (Rossignol, Dynastar Look and Lange)  announce plans to layoff 30% of its workforce (mostly in Europe) citing declining sales and excess inventory.  They hope to return to profitability in two years. Their Dynastar brand alone, has 290,000 pairs of unsold skis! (Which they scrapped most of ????- What a waste!) Ski retailers [...]

Aren’t up to the minute morning snow reports great? (Well, maybe not for some employers…) There’s nothing like the report of deep fresh snow to make getting up on a Monday morning  a lot more fun!
It is too bad that wasn’t the case this morning. I know some folks who had hopes for a decent [...]

One of the great things about skiing is the high level of concentration needed to actually ski. Most people can’t think of anything while skiing except keeping their balance, reading the snow, deciding where to turn next, and making their body do the complex skills needed to successfully turn their skis. Even the thought of [...]

After last night’s National Weather Service’s prediction of lots of snow turned into rain here in the Tetons, I thought, what the heck, why not get further depressed and look at NASA’s global temperature map for February 2009.
As you can see, only Western Canada and Siberia were below normal while much of the Arctic and [...]

There are currently only twelve members on this team and they are all in Areches, France competing in the merciless four-day Pierra Menta randonee stage race which requires each two-person team to ski up and ski down more than 32,000 vertical feet. Think of racing up a mountain higher than Everest, on skis,  starting from [...]

Powder starved skiers in at least one corner of Montana have been rejoicing lately. Bridger Bowl has picked up more than three feet of snow in the past week. That may be more than they got over the past two months!
To read an enthusiastic report, check out Evan’s account at oronaut.com. Check out the photo [...]