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 [...]

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″ [...]

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 [...]

Maybe the calendar says its Spring, but Mother Nature is back in winter mode this morning. Decent snow fell across the Tetons last night with Grand Targhee scoring the biggest hit with 12″-13″ being reported this morning. Over on the east side of the range Jackson is reporting half a foot.
It appears this dose of [...]

On waking up this Monday morning, not to the 8-12 inches of new snow the National Weather Services folks optimmistically predicted for the Tetons, but to a mere 2″ at Grand Targhee  and 3″ on Jackson’s upper mountain, one wonders about the difficulties of  weather prediction in the mountains, or the variance between weekend weather [...]

There are currently only twelve members on this team and they are all in Areches, France competing in the merciless four-day Pierra Menta randonee stage race which requires each two-person team to ski up and ski down more than 32,000 vertical feet. Think of racing up a mountain higher than Everest, on skis,  starting from [...]

This morning’s snow reports are encouraging: Jackson says they picked up 3″-5″ of snow after closing yesterday making for 6″-10″ in the past 24 hours. Grand Targhee is reporting 3″ since the lifts closed and 8″ in the past 24 hours. Further north of here, even snow starved Big Sky and Bridger have picked up [...]

A fast moving weather system slammed into the Tetons yesterday afternoon dumping more than a half foot of snow- maybe more, but the high winds tossed the excess off to the Dakotas. Paying more attention to the total 24 hour accumulation figures of 7-8 inches posted on the Targhee and Jackson snow reports, than to [...]

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 [...]

There’s a bumper sticker I’ve seen on skier cars saying something like, “Skiers like to start every morning with a good dump.”
Perhaps this morning is off to one of those starts. Both Jackson and Grand Targhee are reporting about a foot of new snow in the past 24 hours with about 7″ having fallen over [...]