Winter may be losing the war for seasonal supremacy, but it has sure won a couple of major battles the last couple of days in the Rockies. Colorado, Utah. Idaho, Wyoming and Montana all received replenishing snowfalls to bury last week’s sun baked spring conditions. In the Teton’s nearly three feet fell in the past [...]
Maybe the calendar says its Spring, but Mother Nature is back in winter mode this morning. Decent snow fell across the Tetons last night with Grand Targhee scoring the biggest hit with 12″-13″ being reported this morning. Over on the east side of the range Jackson is reporting half a foot.
It appears this dose of [...]
Carpooling! At least at Grand Targhee that is. Just a reminder that Grand Targhee is rewarding people skiing there who arrive in a private vehicle carrying three or more people with discounts of $10 off their lift tickets and vouchers for free coffee or hot chocolate.
Now here’s an item that is sure to raise the [...]
People who know me pretty much expect to only see me in the mountains only on powder mornings. If there is no new snow, or still soft, untracked snow in the backcountry, I’m generally hitting the nordic trails, leaving my car happily in the garage, keeping my money out of the oil companies’ coffers.
This week [...]
On waking up this Monday morning, not to the 8-12 inches of new snow the National Weather Services folks optimmistically predicted for the Tetons, but to a mere 2″ at Grand Targhee and 3″ on Jackson’s upper mountain, one wonders about the difficulties of weather prediction in the mountains, or the variance between weekend weather [...]
The forecast, that is. The National Weather Service is predicting up to a foot of snow tonight for the Tetons. AND, up to a foot of snow tomorrow and possibly another 9″ tomorrow night.
That’s the good news. What’s the catch? Tomorrow, the temps are predicted to reach 38 degrees- in the mountains!- and winds up [...]
Yesterday, I couldn’t resist the lure of a day old snowfall covering the Tetons and a bright sunny morning. I decided to do the long trudge up South Leigh Canyon to reach Beard Mountain and its gorgeous powder fields. From the parking area to the base of the mountains it’s a 2-1/2 to 3 miles [...]
Will Pixel Power replace Kodak Courage or a Kodak Moment as verbal shorthand in the digital age? Anyway, this weekend is the time to bring your cameras (any kind) up to Grand Targhee to try to capture highlights of the adult division of the Targhee Tee-Off Skiing competition, a big mountain freeskiing event to be [...]
This morning’s snow reports are encouraging: Jackson says they picked up 3″-5″ of snow after closing yesterday making for 6″-10″ in the past 24 hours. Grand Targhee is reporting 3″ since the lifts closed and 8″ in the past 24 hours. Further north of here, even snow starved Big Sky and Bridger have picked up [...]
Rain. I hear it drumming LOUDLY on my roof. On March 3rd, we should be getting wonderful light snow. I just checked Targhee’s SNOTEL metering and see that even at 9260′ in the mountains the temperatures have been above freezing for the past 30 hours. SNOTEL also shows a loss of 4.5″ of snow depth [...]
