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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s hard to miss all the deals being offered by ski resorts and ski shops these days as they try to harvest as many of the more scarce skier dollars as they can. But, is the ski business really suffering? Are all the deals saving the industry? USA Today recently did an article on how [...]

Two new confirmations crossed my computer screen today about the overdue bursting of the real estate markets in places people thought would be immune- Aspen and Jackson Hole. On Wednesday the  Wall Street Journal’s wealth reporter posted that Pitkin County (home of Aspen) saw real estate transactions fall by 40% last year and the dollar [...]

A double entendre was not in my mind when typed in the title of this short post, but it fits.
Yesterday at about this time the rain changed over to beautiful white snow outside my window as the temperature continued to drop. The Teton Pass webcam showed a slippery snow covered road and clouds clung to [...]

The National Weather Service is prediciting a chance of snow in the rainy weather they say will dominate the Tetons this weekend. Radar shows a large mass of precipitation coming ashore over Oregon, so the odds are the higher elevations will get a whitening.
It wasn’t too many years ago that Targhee picked up a couple [...]

One of the benefits of life in and around established ski towns is the growth in cultural amenities that inevitably go along with them attracting people of varying backgrounds and interests. It was sad and quite surprising to read this morning that the Jackson Film Institute has been forced to close. According to the story [...]

With the September 1st deadline looming for the deepest discount and a son heading off to college in a couple of days, on Friday we all went up to Grand Targhee, had our photo ID pictures taken and paid for our Family Pass. For $1199, (or $400/person) the three of us will be able to [...]