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 [...]

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 [...]

Now that W is on permanent vacation, I guess NASA’s climate scientists are no longer under house arrest, so we can mine some interesting (disturbing?) climate data on NASA’s website. If you thought we were having a real winter back in January, check out this NASA map of the average global temperatures for January 2009, [...]

Here in the Rocky Mountains, we already know that researchers have found Global Warming is causing spring to arrive earlier and causing our winter snows to melt away sooner, draining our mountains of the snowpack  vital to keeping rivers and streams flowing through the summer months. Now, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest [...]

This past weekend I did my annual, very informal and totally unscientific parking lot survey of what kinds of vehicles people are driving up to Grand Targhee. Usually I’m pretty dismayed by the preponderance of pickup trucks and burly SUV’s  in the lots, but this year I parked in a row of five side by [...]

It seems there are a lot of people cursing the gorgeous white snow (and rain and ice) that Mother Nature bestowed upon them yesterday. When I saw yesterday morning’s national radar image showing a wide blue band running from the Ozarks to the New York-Canada border, I was impressed by it, and thought, “How’d they [...]

Yesterday Teton skiers rejoiced to awake to a few inches of new snow covering their favorite slopes. The almost two week long snow draught brought lots of sun, so the snow under yesterday’s new layer was pretty firm.
Yesterday I embarrassed myself thoroughly. Eager to get to Targhee to enjoy a couple of runs before acting [...]

Only 3″ fell overnight as a new storm moves into the Teton Mountains, but up to a foot of snow is predicted to fall by the time the storm exits for the Great Plains. As usual, accompanying stiff winds will create lots of horizontal snow movement, cause whiteouts and aggravate the already nasty avalanche situation. [...]