There are multiple ways to get up a mountain. Walk, run, snowshoe, skin up{special scaled skins under skis}, snowmobile, snowcat, helicopter, rope tow, pommel lift, rolling carpet, crawl, horse, mule, chairlift, and gondola. Skiers want to get up as fast as they can, especially when there is new powder snow or if it too cold to stand in line. Then there is the tram. Holding masses of Jills and Jacks on board whole heartingly holding snowboards and skis. This TRAM, is owned by a cowboy on a bronco.
A drive to this Wyomng resort may start at the White Buffalo, cost a Million Dollars, pass the Beware of Deer, see the Elk Crossing, bypass a Moose Creek, and venture through the frozen fog. The sum of these will make the Whole, as Jack and Son, pointing to the TRAM of the Cowboy and Bronco. The skiers come here for many reasons, however, and a frozen however, they come here for Jackson Hole. Other resorts live above zero, Jackson Hole lives below zero. However, step on that TRAM, the one with the cowboy on the bronco, and hear the numerous languages spoken.
Jackson Hole has a taste of the real Wild West in the winter more than the summer. Anyone can handle the easy part of warm weather, however, Jackson Hole attracts a real hard core soul. Add in the morning sun on the Tetons, the migrating animals, the clean crisp air, the simple living with the lavish, and that terrain of Jackson acessed by that TRAM. Bring a wide angle lense, as the vistas tend to tickle yours eyes and can only be put to print in a wide way.
Bill, of the ski patrol invited me to do a sweep with two visiting patrollers from Kicking Horse, BC, and we did homage to Wally, a patroller that left JHole in a mishap avalanche. The Hobacks were our destination and the moguls were a delight to my heart. Anna Cole, marketing manager, had her reins on MauiSkiBus, with her Google alert of Jackson Hole. A post-ski day BBQ party was held by JBudd and friends in the JHole Village at the base of that TRAM. Jackson Hole, Wyomng, the wild cowboy ski resort of the west. Wanna ride that TRAM with the cowboy on the bronco?
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