After picking up some bagels at Pearl Street Bagels in Wilson yesterday, I left the bagel shop by way of Wilson Backcountry Sports and my eye was caught by a new book on the book rack: Targhee Backcountry Ski Atlas, by Brady Johnston.
It is not so much a book as a collection of aerial photos [...]
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 [...]
Lou Dawson posted a little rant recently(midway in a longer post), “Industrial skiing is indeed a blemish on the face of public land and snowsports in general. Expensive, resource intensive junkshow, for the most part — though ANY skiing has its upside and we do ride the cable on occasion.”
Lou’s has an admitted bias of [...]
The Tetons finally got a decent snowfall without the winds that have ruined the snow for much of the past week. Jackson and Grand Targhee both reported about a foot of fresh snow this morning. After a holiday week plagued with lift closures due to avalanches, high avalanche danger, and high winds, both resorts were [...]
The most detailed account I’ve read about the avalanche that struck Jackson Hole Mountain Resort’s Couloir restaurant is now online at the Jackon Hole News & Guide’s site. More ski patrollers were caught by this slide than was originally reported, but thankfully, they were only partially buried with only some minor injuries were suffered.
Yesterday, the [...]
Mother Nature is showing her crueler side this week in the Tetons. Day after day more snow arrives- usually a good thing, from a skiers perspective- but the rate at which it has fallen and the slippery icy/snowy mixture of previously fallen snow all the new snow’s massive weight rests upon, has produced a horrendously [...]
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 [...]
The snow keeps falling here in the Tetons. In the past 24 hours another foot or so of snow has fallen and Grand Targhee reports 7 of those inches fell after they closed their lifts yesterday, so it’s another powder morning! But- there was a lot of wind last night, so the skiing might be [...]
