A fast moving weather system slammed into the Tetons yesterday afternoon dumping more than a half foot of snow- maybe more, but the high winds tossed the excess off to the Dakotas. Paying more attention to the total 24 hour accumulation figures of 7-8 inches posted on the Targhee and Jackson snow reports, than to [...]

Great news from John Urdi, Grand Targhee’s Marketing Director-
The first Grand Targhee “Carpool Sunday” was a great success with more than 200 coupons being handed out and roughly 60 vehicles participating. Some drove in asking point blank where to pick up coupons (one truck in particular with about 8 people packed in) and others were [...]

Warm temps, soggy snow and robins chirping in the trees got you down since it is still February?
The upside is the early arrival of crust in the Teton Valley. Crust thick enough to support a skier on skate skis. It’s crust skiing time! Maybe not everywhere, but I cruised for several miles this morning and [...]

After picking up some bagels at Pearl Street Bagels  in Wilson yesterday, I left the bagel shop by way of Wilson Backcountry Sports and my eye was caught by a new book on the book rack: Targhee Backcountry Ski Atlas, by Brady Johnston.
It is not so much a book as a collection of aerial photos [...]

Up on Teton Pass yesterday I did a quick lap up Glory and was lucky to find a parking space very near the boot trail.
When I arrived at the parking lot I was surprised to see a huge tractor, as in “tractor- trailer”, minus the trailer, parked in the lot. I know the police are [...]

As I previously mentioned on this blog, Grand Targhee Resort has been working on a way to encourage its day users to carpool. This Sunday will be the first of its Carpool Sundays. All the riders in any private vehicle arriving arriving between 8:30-11:00 AM with three or more people in it will each get [...]

There’s a bumper sticker I’ve seen on skier cars saying something like, “Skiers like to start every morning with a good dump.”
Perhaps this morning is off to one of those starts. Both Jackson and Grand Targhee are reporting about a foot of new snow in the past 24 hours with about 7″ having fallen over [...]

I don’t buy a lot of junk. I’m not much of a consumer, and that includes skis stuff. The skis I do own, I ski until bases and the edges  look like they were last tuned by Red Green before I retire them. So I appreciate a good ski shop and a good ski tech. [...]

This morning’s snow reports for the Tetons were pretty universal in their agreement that about 6″ of snow fell in the preceding 24 hours. That was good news, by recent stadards, 6″ is a decent snowfall!
On Monday they had reported 4″ and few of the usual powder junkies showed up. Today, they reported 6″ and [...]

Skiing’s future past me on a bus yesterday. Having enjoyed a morning dose of a few inches of soft new snow, I was heading down Grand Targhee’s access road when a big yellow school bus from Swan Valley, ID. past me on its way up to the resort. A few minutes later another big bus [...]