“Dear skiers! Downhill skiing demands awareness. Advanced skier’s speed while descending the slope can reach 100 km/hour. In the places of mass skiing inexperienced and undisciplined skier is the serious danger for the others.” From the Bukovel Ski Slope Rules and Etiquette. “Obeying the rules will help you to have an exciting and effective rest [...]

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 [...]

I just read a report on Firsttracksonline stating that the Aspen Skiing Company signed on to a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal advocating for “both capping and putting a price for the first time ever on the pollution that causes global warming.”
I applaud ASC, but have to ask, where are Vail Resorts, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Maybe folks around here have already missed work too often this winter on powder mornings and are beginning to feel guilty, or the work has just piled up too deep and has to be dealt with. Whatever the reason, this morning Grand Targhee received some of the lightest snow in weeks and even with 7″ [...]

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 [...]