With the Tetons still in the grip of bright sun and high pressure, powder skiing is not an option. But why whine when the skate ski track is fast and the calm sunny weather feels like late spring in January?
We went to Alta, WY. where Teton Trails and Pathways grooms a few miles of gorgeous [...]

I’ve been critical of the concept of the Yellowstone Club and other high end real estate developments. I stand by my  criticism of their excesses and the ripple effect of escalating nearby property values that prices average income people out of communities at or near ski areas.
Tonight I learned, through a Yellowstone Club member, of [...]

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 [...]

I wonder how the famous (infamous?) melt down in the financial markets will affect the heretofore booming economies of ski resorts and the towns that are allied with them? Nearby Jackson, WY. has benefited enormously in the past couple of decades by the outlandish profits, salaries, and bonuses Wall Street has handed out, to the [...]

I had to be in Breckenridge, Co. for a couple of days over Labor Day Weekend, and while there I had a couple of thoughts about resort towns in a high mountain environment.
My first thought was, can’t we do it better? Do all ski resorts have to spawn endless square miles of second home developments [...]