Finally some uninterrupted skiing!

Today, the skies finally cleared up a bit and in spite of -7 degree Fareinheit, all was good.

After the usual snow clearing and a spat with a permanent resident at the condo complex who didn't appreciate my car standing next to his Toyota 4Runner while we were loading our gear, we drove the 8 miles in Teton Village direction.

We did non-stop laps under the Bridger Gondola, a lift that serves 2,730 vertical feet, stood in line forever for a ride in the tram that wasn't worth the effort, and had lunch on the mountain.

This tram is more hype than real fun and this Jackson Hole's icon is in fact a white elephant when one think that it did cost a fortune to built and still does to operate, only to carry a maximum of 650 passengers per hour up the mountain, compared to more than 2,000 with a modern gondola like Bridger! The runs in Jackson Hole are very, very steep and are crisscrossed with traverses that are meant to funnel skiers back down to the bottom at the lifts departure point.

My take out for the day was that there were three paramount elements in skiing: Having a good knowledge of the the terrain and the mountain, being able to see reasonably well and being 10 year younger to have even more fun, but still my experience so far almost made the trip worth its while and erased most of the problems we experienced!