The promised snowstorm delivered a much needed blanket of snow to the Teton Range this weekend, not enough to provide “go anywhere” skiing, but enough to allow Grand Targhee to successfully open at least the more northerly facing aspects of its main mountain. My off snow life is still pretty hectic so I waited until [...]
Winter storm warning. Such a pregnant with meaning phrase for skiers. Right in there with “I am pregnant” or “I love you”. So many possibilities and so much hope springs to mind when skiers hear or read these words in this order. More normal people may cringe and curse at the prospect of dangerous roads, [...]
It’s May 1st and there’s more fresh powder on the Tetons again this morning, even down to 6000′ in the valley there’s a dusting. If the SNOTEL measuring is to be believed it looks like there’s about 4″ of new snow in the mountains, and the sun is shining! Could be a fun morning to [...]
Grand Targhee is throwing its first season pass holders party tomorrow afternoon- and it looks like it’s shaping up to be another Targhee powder day too! Probably a recipe for lots of traffic to the resort and a scarcity of parking spaces. I hope lots of people get smart and carpool!
Winter may be losing the war for seasonal supremacy, but it has sure won a couple of major battles the last couple of days in the Rockies. Colorado, Utah. Idaho, Wyoming and Montana all received replenishing snowfalls to bury last week’s sun baked spring conditions. In the Teton’s nearly three feet fell in the past [...]
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 [...]
After last night’s National Weather Service’s prediction of lots of snow turned into rain here in the Tetons, I thought, what the heck, why not get further depressed and look at NASA’s global temperature map for February 2009.
As you can see, only Western Canada and Siberia were below normal while much of the Arctic and [...]
The forecast, that is. The National Weather Service is predicting up to a foot of snow tonight for the Tetons. AND, up to a foot of snow tomorrow and possibly another 9″ tomorrow night.
That’s the good news. What’s the catch? Tomorrow, the temps are predicted to reach 38 degrees- in the mountains!- and winds up [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday, the Tetons got a breather between storms. Evan and I took advantage of the gap between storms to join the crowd of backcountry skiers on a sunny post storm morning on Teton Pass. We booted up Mount Glory to ski some nice day old powder on Glory’s west flank. The avalanche danger was posted [...]
