Bike Teton Valley View Road

One of my favorite road rides is Teton Valley View Road (N 500 W). Some of the best valley vistas and not much traffic make this a beautiful ride. From Hatches Corner (Leigh Road) where Highway 33 makes it’s first direction change heading north to west, to Badger Creek Road (W 1000 N) is about five […]

Teton Valley Balloon Festival

One tradition kept alive by some local faithful ladies (Margaret, Candy & Virginia) and their multitude of volunteers is the Teton Valley Balloon Festival. Budweiser Big Bucks Backing It’s origin comes from August “Auggie” Anheuser Busch III, former Chairman of Anheuser-Busch. His passion for hot air balloons and connection through property holdings in Teton Valley […]

Teton Valley Crust Cruising

For those who don’t know what Crust Cruising is, think of a vast ocean of snow that has transformed into the perfect surface for nordic skiing at high speed. The warm, high angle of the sun melts the snow, much to the delight of those longing for Spring. But then the cold nights refreeze the […]

Dreams Come True In Tetons

As a lifelong skier who grew up in New England, my boyhood dreams were of skiing in bottomless powder in the Colorado Rockies. Wyoming was unknown to me. The Tetons were never heard of. That was then, and since I’ve had my share of my dreams come true. Today was another. Thirteen inches since the […]

Teton Snow Pile

Targhee Snow Pile

Yes, the mountains are being transformed into one big Teton snow pile. As we can see from this screen shot from Grand Targhee’s website, it’s been dumping snow here for the past several days. Today we did a double take when a large pile of snow turned out to be a car that has been […]