Yup, I'm a hockey dad, spending lots of quality time at the Snow King Ice Arena these days. Weather: In the snow flow don't ya know. Only 2 inches overnight reported but at least six more since 6 a.m. Jackson Hole news links: The End of Snow? That’s the question former Jackson Hole sportswriter and current Powder editor Porter Fox asks in this New York Times Sunday Review piece. There were 2,000...
Cottonwood Park
A frozen sagebrush bush on a recent clear, crisp western Wyoming morning. Weather: Still high, dry. Rinse, repeat. Jackson Hole news links: Jarad Spackman, my colleague at Jackson Hole Sotheby’s, remembered by Rock and Ice as a top mountaineer that passed in 2013. RIP, Jarad. You are missed. If you can ski like Tommy Moe, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort prefers you do not. Still safety month out there...
Building sites accounted for a third of all Jackson Hole real estate units sold in January, continuing a trend of steadily increasing land sales and stirring hopes for resurgence in the local construction industry. Teton County, Wyoming, total sales volume reached approximately $26.3 million* on 18 unit sales in January, reflecting a slight drop from the 22 sales for $28 million the previous year. Last...
It may be hard to imagine today, but in 1984 when the first Cottonwood Park homes were under construction, the southwestern corner of Jackson looked almost as rural as the ranch lands that define the landscape south of High School Road today. There were no sprawling school campuses with synthetic sports fields. No apartment complexes. No big box supermarket or department store. The “X” at the...