The promised snowstorm delivered a much needed blanket of snow to the Teton Range this weekend, not enough to provide “go anywhere” skiing, but enough to allow Grand Targhee to successfully open at least the more northerly facing aspects of its main mountain. My off snow life is still pretty hectic so I waited until [...]

Yesterday the National Weather Service posted a Winter Storm Warning for the Tetons. Often, I think they do that to protect their butts, not wanting to get called out for missing a snowstorm that causes accidents, closures,  and economic losses. They’d rather err on the side of caution since most people will be happy if  [...]

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 [...]

Congrats to my wonderful local ski hill, Grand Targhee, for winning the 2009 Golden Eagle Award for Overall Environmental Excellence by a ski resort at the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) National Convention and Tradeshow going on in Florida. As I noted last month, Grand Targhee became the “first organization in North America” to have [...]

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″ [...]

Today was the final day of lift served skiing anywhere near the Tetons. Grand Targhee had good size crowds all weekend with the usual big turn out for its annual Cardboard Derby on Saturday and almost as many skiers today for the final day of the season. Since Jackson closed last weekend, there were noticeably [...]

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 [...]

Maybe folks around here have already missed work too often this winter on powder mornings and are beginning to feel guilty, or the work has just piled up too deep and has to be dealt with. Whatever the reason, this morning Grand Targhee received some of the lightest snow in weeks and even with 7″ [...]

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 [...]

Grand Targhee is throwing its first season pass holders party tomorrow afternoon- and it looks like it’s shaping up to be another Targhee powder day too! Probably a recipe for lots of traffic to the resort and a scarcity of  parking spaces. I hope lots of people get smart and carpool!