It's a shame. The latest on the blog, twitter feed, and facebook page are all several years old. Did you ever try emailing to the contact on the home page ([email protected])?
I should be more enamored of Jackson, not sure why I'm not. Dick's Ditch is pretty cool though. I could easily spend half a day in that. Maybe hit the Hobacks for some atrocious refreeze in the late afternoon.
If I was going to the gathering I'd definitely go to Snow King. Likely the snow would be solid ice. Doesn't matter. Screw Jackson for a day. Maybe the week. Hit Targhee, maybe back country.
Bill Briggs bought Snow King in 1966 and started the Great American Ski School there. I didn't know he'd started a Bill Brigg's Ski School in 1958 at Suicide Six in VT. Pretty cool. Clearly he likes steeps, even way back then. I learned to ski at Suicide. 800ft vert, two Pomas. The Face was steep and at the time I skied there still ungroomed. Too steep, you need a Winch Cat. People were always walking down because they fell on the Poma and couldn't ski down. If you could ski the Face decently you could go to most places and be ok. The Front Four at Stowe weren't much harder, but much longer.
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"The history of the sport has been plagued by trumped-up 'right ways' to ski," observes veteran ski teacher Bill Briggs, 68, of Jackson Hole, Wyo. And, Briggs might add, plagued by criticism of "wrong" ways.
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"Carved to Pieces", John Fry, Dec 2000, Ski
https://www.skimag.com/.amp/ski-performance/carved-to-pieces
Good article on Briggs from 1995 in Ski Magazine. Starts on pg 130
https://books.google.com/books?id=ogLfAUtIevIC&pg=PA132&lpg
For a moment - a short moment - I thought you were talking about @James and his plan to avoid skiing Jackson Hole.
Well get some people to split renting a locker. Unless you boot up at home, take the bus, or boot up in the parking lot subsidizing the crappy base lodge. Par for the West. (Not Targhee.) The locker area is decent but adds $20+ /day.^^^^
Well some of us haven't been to Jackson Hole yet, and would like to at least check it out.
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Well some of us haven't been to Jackson Hole yet, and would like to at least check it out.
Great story. On three of my four trips to Jackson, I saw Bill Briggs at the Stagecoach Inn in Wilson, WY, where he has been playing on Sunday night for more than 50 years. (It's at base of Teton Pass and only about a mile from Stilson lot where you can park for free and catch free bus to skiing).
Such a joke. Outside booting up. Gee, thanks for the roof and one wall. Not even a smelly heated Yurt!Spent a week at JH last season. SSDD.
It’s big Mts with no space to boot up. So we subsidize lack of space. Aspen is terrible, Highlands poor, Snowmass - well if you drive to that other lodge, but it’s Cat Track city w/no lodge otherwise. Buttermilk has space ironically.@James is just jealous because he's not going to be there having fun with the rest of us.
Snowmass has a nice room with lots of space, a ticket counter, lockers, free cubbies, and comfy couches. It's just behind the slope-side restaurants at the top of that strange tiny gondola from the base to the "snowmass mall". And I would grade Aspen poor and Highlands OK.
