Quality snow and challenging terrain makes Jackson Hole in Wyoming a magnet for talented skiers and snowboarders, but its appeal is broader than its image.
If skiing is your art, then the mountain is your canvas, but it isn’t always a smooth surface, eager for your brushstrokes. “How’s Rendezvous Bowl skiing?” asks one skier of another in the tram as it ascends. “Oh, the snow’s somewhere between chicken heads and coral up high, but then it gets OK.” Not quite the canvas I was hoping for.
So, being fortunate enough to access the resort’s fleet of demo skis, I wander back in to JH Sports and ask my friendly technician if I might try something a little narrower. Like the way the mountain is used, Teton Village, at its base, has also changed dramatically. On my first visit, the hotel, the only one in town, had no hot water and some of the resort admin was in a caravan.Coyotes and elk roamed the farmland beneath the mountain where you’ll now find streets and condos. “Snow homes” now line the ski runs, timber and glass trophies on real estate they call “beachfront”, which sell for more than $US20 million dollars.
Back to the mountain. Today, I’m skiing with Carol Viau, who has worked here and hereabouts as a tour guide and ski patroller and now spends her time as a ski instructor and back-country guide. We meet at the Bridger Gondola. There’s more fresh snow and the skiers and boarders are like sheepdogs sniffing sheep, so eager are they to round it up.But here’s the crowd’s conundrum. Up high, the snow safety team is managing the fresh falls, bombing for avalanche control.
Eric is married to free-ski superstar Jess McMillant, and they came up with an idea you could only run with at this resort. There’s a feature here called Corbet’s Couloir, a treacherous and narrow chute with a sheer drop on entry, cliff walls either side and rocks here and there to avoid on the way down.So these two concocted a competition that is very much an expression of Jackson Hole: the Kings and Queens of Corbet’s.
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