I’m a partisan of this little boutique mountain range in Northwest Wyoming called the Tetons. Sure, they’re pretty, and pretty photogenic, but as a skier I know them to be the home some of the best skiing in North America, and as I’ve recently argue, the key to great skiing is great snow, or at [...]
Remember last year at this time? The Tetons were getting pounded with heavy snows and the avalanche danger was insane. There was an inbounds avalanche fatality at Jackson and another avalanche partially buried several of their ski patrol members and damaged an on-mountain restaurant. The danger was so high Jackson had to keep much of [...]
Infantile and absurd, but soul satisfying, peering out an early morning August window to check for snow, and seeing the heads and shoulders of the great Tetons swathed in glorious white. Yes, an earnest blanket of snow above 9000, not a mere dusting. Transient, sure. But still, it looks great.
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 [...]
Today was the final day of lift served skiing anywhere near the Tetons. Grand Targhee had good size crowds all weekend with the usual big turn out for its annual Cardboard Derby on Saturday and almost as many skiers today for the final day of the season. Since Jackson closed last weekend, there were noticeably [...]
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 [...]
Up on Teton Pass yesterday I did a quick lap up Glory and was lucky to find a parking space very near the boot trail.
When I arrived at the parking lot I was surprised to see a huge tractor, as in “tractor- trailer”, minus the trailer, parked in the lot. I know the police are [...]
