March 31st but felt like January 31st. Not touching bottom:
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Nice UAN - way to keep it rolling. Hate for it to end.
Targhee announced pricing for 2024/2025- now $1069 for an adult pass if you buy before the end of April.
https://www.grandtarghee.com/tickets...-season-passes
Thank you!Quote:
Originally Posted by jsnowut
It ain't over yet. A good morning:
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To all who live on either side of the Tetons, pick up a copy of the free Jackson Hole Daily, their Aprils Fool edition with the baby doing Corbet's Couloir is well worth the time. PS The 'Ghee skied quit well this AM.
Sweet shot. It isn’t often there’s an airborne subject in your photos, definitely says something about the conditions. Not that this little storm put that particularly drop in play, but it did for several inbounds hits I’ve been eyeing for a few years. Jumped off more stuff today that the past few years combined. Felt good.Quote:
Originally Posted by upallnight
What an awesome morning of skiing at the resort.
damn...i wish that was an aprils fools priceQuote:
Originally Posted by Kevo
Village skied well late in the day today
Saw someone get Heli longlined out at 345 or so
(Edit: hope they’re ok)
Edit: I suck at typing on my phone.
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It certainly skied wonderfully slushy w walk on trams.
Injured skier was in the cliffy zone lookers left of the main No Name powder field, patroller showed me a photo on his phone of the line, zoomed in and blurry, did not have my readers either! Looked like he went over two cliff bands. (unverified 37 year old male)
Ski Host said was TGR shoot (unverified).
Got home and walked dog down to Bud's to get a bottle of wine, 4 helicopters in 40 minutes at St. Johns, may have been training or a couple of air ambulances out of order for the patient transfers staged on the ground.
Did also see some skid like folks in ski gear outside the hospital as well, so hoping for the best.
Loud afternoon in East Jackson.
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Originally Posted by hoarhey
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Did I see something about Glory Bowl sliding yesterday or the day before? Something on the tetonpassholes instagram page showed a photo of the top of Glory with a nice slide running down it. Doesn't sound like it hit the road, but yikes! Hope you don't lose access to that zone because some dumb fucks think it's "stable enough"
Holy fuck it’s rough out there. Bowl and really anything off piste is ski-to-not-get-injured type shit. Gunna be a lot of people bailing to drink early before R fest. Skiing might not be the most dangerous thing out there today
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Am I being too optimistic or reading too much into the way they are doing JHMR pass sales this year as a sign that new ownership “gets it” at least for now?
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Waaaay too optimistic.
Locals were plainly getting screwed in the last coupla years, so this is a stopgap to the problem.
Last year we got a 10% discount for buying the year before. That's gone. Not that I expected it but most steps in the right direction are only short term then disappear.
Like a payment plan between May and December, that lasted maybe one season. Now all up front.
And the $150 down payment until November? One and done.
For decades we had all summer to earn for the August sale date. No more...
I wish the new deal was:
A. show up in person to get the spring price.
B. show a valid WY driver's license.
C. 1% off for each season pass from years prior that you can show the pass salesperson.
D. Parking passes for full pass buyers would be discounted as well.
I guess a pause in the beatings feels like generosity!
Could your option D ever happen given the Cold War between JHMR and TVA?
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That's pretty damn funny and not wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by aBradAbroad
Highly doubtful, like B and C.
The resort has no real gains by hooking up the locals other than local good will.
The best thing they could do is get a vision that doesn't focus on getting as many fucking waffle eaters to the hill.
And cut loose about 75% of the mgmnt.
Local good will is vastly underrated by the bean counters.
Some people never go back to destination resorts due to bad experiences with locals.
Or at least take 30 years to try again.
And it took 2 tries to be worthwhile, yes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
That first season at BBIJH22 was challenging to say the least. You kicking the shit outta yer clamps will not soon be forgotten.
Last year though - gotdam did we do it right.
A little bit of good will goes a long, long way.
That's what a lot of wealthy people don't understand.
Good snow does too.
L is getting her MRI now. I am so __pumped__. Maybe I can get her to visit again.
^^^^^^^^^^
Well with any luck and a predicted incoming La Nina, we'd be stoked to have her rolling around the village again, finally. And it's way more conducive to skiing on a recent repair than it used to be.
Right now prediction is at 83% certainty of a La Nina. El Nino is all but gone and transition is underway, so says NOAA.
So… Mrs. Plug and I met on the Sublette, (quad), chair 33 years ago. So we decided to come into town and try to catch the last chair, and of course, patrol, etc. should have last chair which is only fitting, but it was pretty cool to be one of the last chairs.
Was actually pretty sad. I didn’t expect that. Great bunch of folks at the top saying goodbye.
Miss Sublette was my first true love on that mountain. We were pretty regular for about a dozen years. I'll miss the slow roll and the long puffsnstuffs.
Seen a lot of crazy shit go down beneath those chairs...Alta fails, waterfall stomps, birthday drops, goal post scores...
Gonna be weird hi speeding up that ridge.
Upper mountain gets thrashed faster.
I remember riding that chair with Steve Haas on a Christmas Day morning, hardly anyone on the hill.
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Ha! I bet that was a quiet ride...not the most talkative guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by ticketchecker
The first major crusty ski bum I ever met. NY'er all the way.
Skiing POW everyday now with Doug and Ray and Howie and RJ and...
Actually we got along pretty well, we were both renting monthly rooms at the Teton Motel in Dec ‘90 and bonded over the two inch layer of ice that formed inside the windows during a four day below zero stretch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Djongo Unchained
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90-91 was a sucky season in retrospect. My first full season in JH tho so I thought it was grrrrreat. Around 350-375" iirc.
First winter driving the box and I recall an early season cold snap that was below zero for 2 weeks and bottoming out around -25. My Firebird was locked up in the upper lot where the white building sits now. Took a salamander heating it from below to get it running.
So much has changed.
Also, I heard that the big ass project uphill of the Teton club just had it's 2nd company bail out. Looking for a new GC to take over completion, which seems far awaaay. Poor, poor Rob D.
Between this and a divorce, he's prolly stressed.
Man we just missed each other, may last big season there was 89-90. My college girlfriend was a Wilson, so we spent every free minute on the hill. I miss those daysQuote:
Originally Posted by Djongo Unchained
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90s ski town dirtbagging was unreal. It really was another world. Shit that was normalized would never fly today.Quote:
My Firebird...
My car was dead once. I used to walk down to Hwy 40 and get picked up by a snowmobile mechanic is some 70s wagon with a bong sitting on the trans hump. I'd load bowls and we hot box that shit to the front door of the ski shop. That probably went on for a month and a half.
^^^ If we could post pics I’d show ya our ‘74 Monte Carlo we named ‘Merlin’ because it was always a miracle when you actually arrived at your destination… for several reasons!
That's good living right there...Quote:
Originally Posted by Foggy_Goggles
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Teleee - isn't that something how our circles tend to cross historically? Odds are good that ticketchecker and I worked right beside each other. I just need to see his mugg. And he used to live next to my long past mentor, Steve.
I'd like to connect with you this summer for a fishy float...
I met Newt on that chair one sunny, bluebird powder morning in December or January of 98. We did a lap or two and then he talked me into doing my first run into Alta Zero.
Brent and...Quote:
Originally Posted by Djongo Unchained
So many friends that have gone before me.
May I be contrarian here and admit that I hated Sublette?
It ruined all that stuff around Alta Chutes, Pepi's Run, Bird in Hand, etc that never got skied before Sublette. It was the end of our passes through in the 90s.
Mmmm... Pepi's on a big powder day. :hunter:Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
I always enjoyed the big storm daze when it blew down and the only way to get over that way was tram or the traverse. Made for some pretty plush and wild skiingQuote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
Crazy how our paths have circled and not really crossed (as far as we can remember)Quote:
Originally Posted by Djongo Unchained
For sure we need to do a summer time fish and float, i am thinking about putting something together early to mid June at the home waters, stay tuned!
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Went up to get next years pass and was greeted by sleeper goodness, an inch+ an hour and no one there. A great day for sure.
I kinda agree with this. As things are going these days, I’d take new lifts if they didn’t fucking summer groom. Pepi’s rewarded you for learning it. Now with all the trees trimmed, you can see the whole thing. Oh well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
What we can all agree on is that that section of Sublette ridge, namely 'Pepi's', is an exceptional bit of terrain.
An easy access ridgeline that is advanced skiing down the ridgeline and expert or masterclass off of either side.
It's situated such that howling winds come down across it from the west so you get a major windward/leeward effect.
Altas are kinda shady north by northeast, BIH/TIB and down to liquor cabinet are more east by southeast to south.
It's easily mitigated and epic in a pow cycle.
In my primetime on Subby, there were way less peeps on it than Thunder. Which was a 2 seater btw. They just tended to stay over there.
Otherwise known as the Quad or the Couch before a 4 seat thunder in 93?.
When it sucks from no snow and refreezing, well it ain't so busy then. But when it nukes, it gets slain pretty quickly.
That wasn't always the case, even with the chair. In the early 90's you could do laps for hours before the crowd came over the hill.
Maybe because Laramie bowl and Grand/Gannet were not summer groomed and a challenge to get there.
Less people rode the tram back then.
No, I blame it on the fat skis making skiing so gotdam simple.
As Beer30 said, it used to be wilder. True, and I love to stand in some obscure spot on the mountain when it's storming like a mofo and ponder how dangerous that place could be, yet how safe we generally are.
Make turns, ski hard.