Robert Frank is reporting that Donald Trump is considering bidding on the Yellowstone Club next month, butTrump claims to be skeptical about the viability of the whole concept of the club. According to Frank, the Donald is worried because  the business of a private golf and ski resort, sustained by land sales and service profits, [...]

Powder starved skiers in at least one corner of Montana have been rejoicing lately. Bridger Bowl has picked up more than three feet of snow in the past week. That may be more than they got over the past two months!
To read an enthusiastic report, check out Evan’s account at oronaut.com. Check out the photo [...]

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 [...]

Reading about the latest strange turn of events in the ongoing Yellowstone Club imbroglio, (Warrant Issued for Arrest of  Edra Blixeth) brings to mind Honore de Balzac’s famous line, “Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”
It appears the schadenfruedenists amongst us will be in for many more months (or years?) of joy as the [...]

The New York Times has taken an interest in the West’s avalanche conditions this winter with three articles so far. Today they profile a the serious study of snow being done by Dr. Ed Adams, a professor of civil engineering at Montana State University in Bozeman. In his newly completed “cold lab” he is seeking [...]

I never heard of Pony, Montana until my son Evan informed me that over Columbus Day Weekend he and some friends noticed that the SNOTEL monitor there was reporting 42″ of new snow by Saturday night. Evan and his friends were getting psyched that evening to ski the 20″ that had fallen on the Bridger [...]