I live near Jackson Hole and every year I toy with the idea of buying a season pass there, but I balk at its price tag, this year it is $1970. If I took advantage of its summer price discount I’d pay only $1675. If I skied 50 days I’d end up paying about $33 [...]
Travel and other obligations will keep this blog off the air until ski season really starts, but thoughts of skiing are never far from the center of my universe.
I just returned home from several weeks in Colorado and was catching up on the local newspapers when I spied a piece in which the reporter bought [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The snow keeps falling! Just a whisker less than 500″ so far this year.
But that’s not why I’m thinking Targhee is grand at the moment. I’ve said and written things in past years that have really displeased former owners and managers at the resort, so I’m not shy about pointing out the resort’s mistakes and [...]
One of my hobbyhorses on this blog is to criticize the trend in the ski world to cater to the wealthier skiers, either by selling them special privileges to ski the powder before everyone else, providing them with special on mountain clubs on public land, designing lodges and restaurants so immense and opulent that we [...]
The economic turbulence continues to impact the ski business. According an Associated Press report on the Denver post website Vail Resorts today announced it was cutting employee wages by up to 10% starting April 2 for non seasonal workers. This winter’s seasonal workers will not be affected. Executives will face the 10% cut and the [...]
Last night while cleaning out old Budget Travel magazines we spotted an article on nudist skiing. There are some European resorts catering to people who, I guess, don’t think winter is cold enough. Obertraun in Austria offers a secluded 2 mile cross-country loop for nudists. Downhillers get into the act too at Hochfugen and Ramsau [...]
