By Jim Stanford on November 23, 2009
Hard to believe this was taken nearly two months ago. Click to enlarge.
Despite all the rad photos of early-season turns at Grand Targhee, the resort plans to open only its Shoshone chairlift and Papoose conveyor on Friday.
“While we have received over 80 inches of snow since the end of September, a few weeks of warm weather coupled with the low moisture content of the snow from this last storm cycle prevents us from opening the upper mountain at this time,” said General Manager F. Scott Pierpont. “We will open the remainder of our terrain as soon as conditions allow.”
Lift tickets will be priced at $39 for full day and $33 for half-day.
Beginning Friday, hiking will be permitted only before 9 a.m. on the Teton Vista Traverse. Peaked Mountain is closed.
Targhee is hosting a big opening weekend party Saturday in the Trap Bar for Protect Our Winters. Festivities commence at 3 p.m. with a showing of the movie Signatures from Sweetgrass Productions. Afterward, get your groove on with Salem from Boulder, Colo. During set break the Trap will show TGR’s Generations, about the effects of climate change in the ski industry.
On the east side of the Tetons, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort is slated to open only its Teewinot and Apres Vous lifts for skidding Saturday.
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