Jackson Hole Underground

It recently has come to my attention that PC users stuck in the stone age of computing accessing this site via Internet Explorer are greeted by a confusingly jumbled page.

I work on a Mac and use Firefox as my browser, and most of my friends do likewise, so that’s why it’s taken me so long to realize something is awry on Explorer.

Alarmingly, 42 percent of my readers use Internet Explorer, I discovered this week.

I’m working to fix the problem. But in the meantime, you might consider buying a Mac trying this free download of Mozilla Firefox for Windows.

Not only will you be able to view this page in its proper layout, but you’ll have a browser you can customize with hundreds of options to suit your personal tastes. The makers of Firefox also say it’s faster and more secure, but I can’t vouch for that (although I suspect it’s true).

What I can say for sure: It almost never crashes, unlike Explorer.

Illness and travel have forced me to put the blog on hold for a few days.

I’ll be in southern Idaho exploring what happens to the Snake River once it leaves Wyoming. (It ain’t pretty.)

Photographer David Stubbs and I are documenting the next leg in Red Canoe’s journey to the Pacific Ocean, for a story to be published this winter in Canoe & Kayak magazine.

But if I come across Larry Craig in a bathroom stall, I’ll tap my foot and reach for the keyboard ASAP.

Be back Friday!

Hello? Anybody still out there, reading this? I don’t blame you for deleting the bookmark and tuning out, as spring break gradually turned into summer vacation, and it seemed this site was headed for a permanent rest.

But no. It’s time to rouse from a deep slumber, what with Big Dick in town and the Blackhawks already buzzing around the valley. The revival of JH Underground coincides with a special event planned for Saturday: the Jackson Peace Rally.

After unsuccessfully pressing the Iraqi Parliament not to take its month-long August vacation, Cheney is here to begin his month-long August vacation. And we’ll be outside his door Saturday to give him the welcome he deserves.

The plan is to meet at the Stilson Ranch parking lot (corner of Highway 22 and the Village Road) at 1 p.m. and march 1.5 miles up the pathway to the gates of Teton Pines, where Cheney owns a home. A group of artists and assorted craftsmen and pranksters have been constructing a special work of art to honor the vice president.

Here’s what I can say about this artwork:

• • It’s being kept in a secure, undisclosed location.

• • And it’s not a giant phallus, as many of you have suggested.

More updates to come later this week, so stay tuned!

Check out pages 2 and 42 in this week’s Planet for a story and full-page advertisement.

The Town Square is a ghost town right now, with more Jacksonites in Moab, Sayulita and (soon to be) Jazz Fest than in Jackson Hole.

For those of you who have been checking this site daily, I apologize. These words are long overdue: I’m taking a spring break.

The obligations of work, travel and other pleasant distractions have proved too taxing for me to keep up. So I’m putting the blog on hold until the wildflowers begin to bloom and the Snake River rushes with runoff.

Thanks to all of you for making the first season of JH Underground such a success: nearly 20,000 page views, all by word of mouth, and some incisive dialogue on life in the Hole.

While there will be posts periodically, daily news and commentary will not resume until May, when I aim to be back with renewed vigor and an improved site.

Until then, bon temps and happy trails!