March 2011
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03/25/11Tram Burger: A Party in Your Mouth
My husband has become a Tram Burger ambassador. After his first meal at the burger stand on the patio of the Teton Club, early in the winter, he's hasn't stopped talking about it. "It’s messy," he says. "The sauce drips down your hands. You need three napkins." At least once a week, I hear him ask someone, "Have you had the Tram Burger yet?" It's a party in your mouth, he once told me. It's been on my list since ski season started, but the burger and I haven't been on the same schedule. Chef Michael Gallivan (of Chef's Table fame) doesn't open on nasty days. And when he does open, he serves up his burgers only from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., hours that I am usually skiing, not eating. I finally got my Tram... Posted at 10:33 AM | Permalink | Comments: 0 |
03/23/11You Know It's Spring in the Tetons When ...
The winter of 2010-11 was an especially long one. Although recent blizzards remind us it’s nowhere near being over, at least there’s hope in the air. You know it’s officially spring in the Tetons when: You go powder skiing and pack for a raft trip on the San Juan River in the same afternoon. The potholes are life-threatening. Crust cruising beckons. The spring issue of Teton Family Magazine is off to press. Baby lambs are everywhere at Heslins' ranch in Alta (where their driveway is protected by eight-foot-deep berms of snow). Green shoots of grass and budding trees can be seen in Idaho Falls. My daughter Mariela has her first club volleyball tournament... Posted at 02:44 PM | Permalink | Comments: 0 |
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03/22/11Battle of the Bands, Part 2
I received an email from Shannon Hamby up at Grand Targhee this afternoon. She was asking us to help get the word out that entries for the Second Annual Battle of the Bands are due by the end of this week. Next up: the online voting period. Here’s the rest of the info Shannon included: Based on the success of the first Targhee Music Festival Battle of the Bands Competition last summer, Grand Targhee Resort again invites local and regional bands to compete for an opportunity to play the main stage at the 7th Annual Targhee Music Festival July 15-17, 2011. Interested bands are asked to submit band information on www.targheemusic.com by Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Posted at 05:22 PM | Permalink | Comments: 0 |
03/18/11Wild Horse, Wild Ride
On Wednesday, March 16, local filmmakers Alex Dawson and Greg Gricus of Fish Creek Films made their directorial feature debut with a poignant film about wild mustangs and the men and women who train them. At the heart of the movie is the annual Extreme Mustang Makeover Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas, in which each of 100 trainers (both professionals and amateurs) sets out to tame a wild mustang in 100 days. The trainers then show their horses in competition before putting the animals up for adoption at a public auction. The film chronicles a handful of unforgettable characters—both human and horse—over a period of three months.... Posted at 10:15 AM | Permalink | Comments: 0 |
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03/17/11Flathead Wild
Some Life in the Tetons readers might find this blog post of mine interesting. It published over at the Adventure Cycling Association's website on Monday. The geographic locale in question is relevant to our region in the context of the Y2Y, or Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative. Posted at 12:08 PM | Permalink | Comments: 0 |
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03/14/11Poetry: thoughts that breathe, words that burn
Teton County Library has another great community project coming up to beat the slow start of what might be a long mud season. April is National Poetry Month, and they're starting the celebration a bit early, part of a bigger effort intended “to encourage the role of poetry in Americans' lives.” It's called the Favorite Poem Project. Sometime during the next two weeks, choose your favorite poem and then submit a copy of it and a 200-word essay about why you've... Posted at 10:07 AM | Permalink | Comments: 0 |
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03/10/11It's a Wild, Wild Life
I have lived in and around the Tetons for sixteen years, and had more than my fair share of run-ins with wildlife. Since 1999 I have lived full-time at Signal Mountain Lodge, on Jackson Lake in the middle of Grand Teton National Park. My first winter there, I was getting ready to go to work and was taking my garbage down to the dumpster near the registration building. On my way out the door I realized I had forgotten something, left the garbage on the ground in a soft dusting of snow, and went back inside for just a minute. When I came back out, my garbage was gone, but there was a track in the snow leading around the side of the deck. I followed the track, not knowing what to expect, when I came upon my garbage that had been dragged about twenty feet, with a proud pine marten... Posted at 08:14 AM | Permalink | Comments: 0 |
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03/07/11Yellowstone Rendezvous 2011
The Teton region was well represented at the 32nd annual Yellowstone Rendezvous nordic ski races, held Saturday, March 5 on the Rendezvous Trails in West Yellowstone, Montana (though participation was down some compared to usual, because several local skiers are competing at the Masters World Cup, currently taking place outside Vernon, British Columbia). Here's a list of local finishers, along with their time and overall place in each race. All distances were freestyle (skating), except for the 25K Classic race. 2K Male: 8 Mitchell Carter, Victor, 10:21.5; Posted at 11:03 AM | Permalink | Comments: 0 |
03/03/11Dining Challenge: Going Veggie at the Village
It was two o’clock and I was starving. We were heading to Jackson Hole Mountain Resort’s Casper Restaurant for a drink. But what I really wanted was some food. All I’d eaten was a melted Snickers bar earlier in the day, obtained at a food stand at the top of the gondola. The stand had offered me these three choices: a hamburger, a bag of chips, or candy. I try to eat primarily a vegetarian diet, so I chose the Snickers bar. I couldn’t help but think about how unhealthy the choices were and wonder why there was not one single healthy item available at this stand. Skiers seem to me like healthy people, yet they were offering skiers only unhealthy items. When we headed onto the deck at Casper, we came face-to-face with another food stand. Hamburgers,... Posted at 11:51 AM | Permalink | Comments: 0 |
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