By Jim Stanford on August 16, 2009
Autumn in August continues. Click to enlarge.
Welcome to the new ice age.
This is the view from Moose this morning, as the snow line was at about 7,000 feet on the flanks of Teewinot, Mount St. John and Mount Moran.
Back-to-back weekends of snow in August, which is cause for celebration if you’re this guy or these guys. But some of the rest of us are cringing.
I asked Dick Barker, who has been floating the Snake since the 1950s, if he had ever seen a summer like this one. “No,” he said, flatly.
At this rate we should be skiing by Oct. 1.
Posted under Environment, Sports, Weather, Wyoming
As I huffed and puffed on my road bike this morning in the desert that is Los Angeles, I day dreamed about a snowy LOTOJA. Enjoy it, JS. Jackson is a dream – sunny, snowy, sleety, whatev.
Could the old adage really be true that Fair Weekend marks the beginning of Fall in Jackson Hole? Indian Summer is all the sweeter for it.
Damn Global Warming
My husband and I were in the Cirque of the Towers area of the Wind River Range this weekend, and it dumped 5 inches on us on Saturday. We saw a mass exodus of climbers, but we stuck it out and were greatly rewarded for weathering the storm!
Skiing by Oct. 1st