Jackson Hole Ski Resort Sees the Light
July 20th, 2010Posted in Skiing in the Tetons
I’m breaking blogging silence with some very good news. This morning Jackson Hole ski resort president Jerry Blann announced the resort would sell its unlimited season pass for $1255 until August 31st. That’s a drop of 25% from last year’s ridiculous price. A long, long overdue return to sanity for a resort with a huge local population of young and eager skiers stressed by ultra high living expenses who have been priced out of the season ticket market- as have what’s left of the middle class family population in the Jackson Hole valley.
In the sort-of-good-news department, the resort is upgrading its water supply pipes to much of its snowmaking domain. I wandered through the construction two weeks ago and these big pipes will handle more than quadruple the volume of the old pipes. So if you like skiing on manmade snow early in the season, it’s good news. If you like natural powder snow, there’s always Grand Targhee just about an hour away where top to bottom natural snow skiing usually is in place by mid- November
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