The court battle for the ownership of the Yellowstone Club reached its denouement today and Sam Byrne and his Cross Harbor crew emerged as the victors according to New West’s report in the court’s decision. Like many skier observers, I’ve been watching this imbroglio with bemusement, not really caring much about who would be pronounced [...]
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 [...]
A couple of days ago I posted the latest NASA map showing all the areas on the Earth’s surface that were either warmer than normal or cooler than normal in March 09 and it was a depressing map for skiers to look at with warming areas covering far more of the Earth than cooling areas.
We [...]
What might Flint, Michigan have to do with the future of skiing? Maybe a report on the radio yesterday about Flint’s efforts to become a smaller city will prove to be predictive of a not to distant in the future happening in the world of some ski resort communities.
What is Flint trying to do? The [...]
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″ [...]
With my apologies to Paul Krugman for the low level of wonkishness this post will provide, I thought I’d provide one of his warnings in the headline.
When I say skier behavior to my friends they immediately think of liftline misbehavior, reckless actions on the slopes and foolishness in the bar. What does that say about [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
One of my hobbyhorses on this blog is to criticize the trend in the ski world to cater to the wealthier skiers, either by selling them special privileges to ski the powder before everyone else, providing them with special on mountain clubs on public land, designing lodges and restaurants so immense and opulent that we [...]
