Yesterday evening a friend mentioned she had received three emails from Grand Targhee announcing the resort had picked up a foot of snow yesterday! I checked my inbox and I too had received three of the same emails. I already knew how good the skiing was during the day yesterday with nice light boot deep [...]
On Thursday Bloomberg (via Buisiness Week) reported homeowners with $1 million plus mortgages are defaulting at about double the rate of other U.S. homeowners. In September payments on about 12% of mortgages over $1 million were 90 dyas or more late.
Over the past year we’ve seen many luxury ski resort developments based on a real [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I guess everyone in Jackson is happy now that they have an aerial tram to ride again at the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. The local newspaper, the national ski press, and the resort’s marketing department have sure made a big deal over it, as have the Jackson bloggers. Has any ski lift in history been [...]
The trivial pursuit of business obligations on the East Coast is now past, so the coast looks clear for lots of good turns in deep snow (soon?) and more regular blog posts.
Driving west on I-80 we saw snowmaking going full tilt in the small ski hills in Ohio and Wisconsin and I was reminded of [...]
The Jackson Hole Daily is reporting this morning that Grand Targhee is considering opening for the season tomorrow (Saturday) a week earlier than planned. According to the article Targhee is reporting a 23″ base. The forecast is for a seasonably cool, but sunny weekend, so there should be no complications on that front. While sunny [...]
