False Alarm

Well, chalk it up to optimism, or the old adage, “you can’t believe everything you read in the newspaper”, but yesterday’s report in the Jackson Hole Daily that Targhee might open today, hasn’t panned out. I was hoping it would be true since I’ll be out of town for the next three weeks and will miss the beginning of the ski season, if Targhee opens on the 22nd as planned.  I wonder if some of the new members of Targhee’s management team have some things yet to learn about message coordination? No harm, no foul, though.

Evan and Steve are salvaging good turns up at the still closed Bridger Bowl, in spite of thin cover. And, of course, lots of people are scrambling up to the higher elevations of the Tetons.

I’m heading east on Monday, but I guess I should go much further east, to Europe, where I understand the Alps are harvesting a lot of snow. Zermatt has more than six feet on its higher slopes and resorts in Italy and Norway are opening early. I hope the good winter over there lasts. Too often warmth and rain can change things dramatically in Europe, like on our Eastern resort’s terrain.

Thankfully, when winter finally sets in here in the Tetons, it stays. It is just hard to be patient in November when we read about snow falling abundantly in other places.

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