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Revved Up … and Up and Up

Revved Up … and Up and Up

One weekend a year, the noise resounding from the slopes of Snow King Mountain sounds like the inside of a nest filled with angry yellow jackets. The smell of exhaust and cigarette smoke stings...

Steep and Deep: Land of Plentiful Powder

Steep and Deep: Land of Plentiful Powder

Hugging the limits of the ski resort, we slip along the orange ropes and boundary markers in the blinding white-on-white of a cloudy day on a snow-covered mountain. “Are you ready for this?”...

35 Years of  Skinny Skis

35 Years of Skinny Skis

Thirty-five years ago, valley native and cross-country ski racer Jeff Crabtree graduated from the University of Colorado and went to his first job interview with a Denver bank...

Two Takes on Fly Fishing: Part 1

Two Takes on Fly Fishing: Part 1

I have always wanted to fly fish...

Shooting for the Stars

Shooting for the Stars

Tom Fazio helped redesign Augusta National Golf Club, home to the Masters Tournament, and Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania, host to the U.S. Open a record eight times...

A Snow King Pentathlon

A Snow King Pentathlon

I doubt it would ever have occurred to me to spend the better part of a day trying out a bunch of different activities on Snow King Mountain—had I not assigned this story to myself, that is...

The Hot Air Express

The Hot Air Express

It was still dark; the day a thought not fully formed. Headlights swept along the road, as colors—tinges of pink, foreshadowings of yellow—slowly crept into the sky...

Aces in the Hole

Aces in the Hole

I can’t believe I came to Jackson Hole in a Mercedes, and I’m leaving in a bus,” one tourist lamented in the early 1950s. Her vehicle hadn’t broken down.

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Recreation Events

Grand Teton Ultras & Trail Marathon

09.04.2010 to 09.05.2010

Grand Teton Ultras & Trail Marathon at Grand Targhee Resort. Now in its sixth year, this series of world-class endurance footraces offers...

Annual Jackson Hole One Fly

09.09.2010 to 09.12.2010

Annual Jackson Hole One Fly. This international fly-fishing competition brings anglers from near and far to the Snake River, raising money for...

LOTOJA

09.11.2010

LOTOJA, a 206-mile bicycle race beginning in Logan, Utah, and finishing in Teton Village. The longest one-day USCF-sanctioned bike race in the...

Old Bill's Fun Run for Charity

09.11.2010

Old Bill's Fun Run for Charity. Raises millions of dollars for some two hundred area nonprofits. 10-K run and 5-K run and walk start at 10am...

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