Little Jackson Hole, Wyo., is anything
but a cow town
•
By Linda Lange
Aficionados of the good life come
to roost in Jackson Hole.This casual, yet sophisticated,
destination is the right place for anyone who is serious
about having fun.Vacationers indulge in fly-fishing,
horseback riding, hiking, mountaineering, and winter
sports of all kinds.
Visits to shops, museums, theaters and gourmet restaurants
satisfy the less outdoor-inclined. All this pleasure
reigns in a landscape that is indescribably beautiful.
Discover
Jackson Hole • by Matthew Jaffe
With all due respect to heaven, it’s got nothing
on Jackson Hole at dawn. A.J. DeRosa is heading
out on a float trip down the Snake River. A native of
Chicago,
DeRosa arrived in this corner of Wyoming in 1972.
He’s
been guiding on the river for 27 years using wooden
boats handmade from Douglas fir. The river is running
high, and the boats settle into the current south of
the Wilson Bridge. The head of
a bald eagle flashes white as it catches sunlight
high in the trees. In stretches, DeRosa stops paddling
and
the boat wheels in lazy circles, creating a kaleidoscopic
panorama of Jackson Hole: blue sky, cottonwood forest,
and the dark, jagged summits of the Tetons.
 Three
Perfect Days in Jackson Hole • by Dina
Mishev
When
the snow melts, a completely different Jackson Hole
emerges. (To clarify, Jackson Hole is the entire valley,
and Jackson is the largest of the valley’s six
towns.) Ski runs morph into trails surrounded by wildflowers
that are perfect for hiking, biking, and running. Rivers
rise to white-water level. Animals come out of hiding,
and the ranches that give the area its Wild West attitude
come back to life. The roads through nearby Grand Teton
and Yellowstone national parks reopen. And faster than
you can say, “My muscles can’t take any
more,” you can find a symphony or country-music
concert, a festival, a rodeo, an art show, a winetasting,
great shops and restaurants, or a spa where you can
rest your body. Three days is the perfect amount of
time to sample Jackson Hole’s cowboy-cosmopolitan
style and enthusiasm for outdoor adventure.
Jackson
of Jackson Hole; that is the question • I've
heard the town in Wyoming called Jackson and Jackson
Hole.
Which is correct? - Gail, Englewood
Doug
Coombs Celebrated in Jackson Hole •
Nancy Coombs speaks at the Doug Coombs Memorial
Sunday in Jackson Hole/Jackson Hole, Wyo. (Ski Press)
• On
the kind of bluebird day in Jackson Hole that Doug
Coombs
would have loved, the world of skiing’s biggest
names came together to celebrate the life of one of
their greatest heroes.
 Jackson
Hole Golf & Tennis Club Gets
New Look • The Jackson Hole (Wyo.) Golf & Tennis
Club has announced that the historic course will reopen
on Friday, June 30, 2006 after a 5:00 p.m. ribbon-cutting
ceremony presided over by Senator Grant Larson (president
of the Wyoming senate). Redesigned by Robert Trent
Jones Jr., who also designed the original course in
1967 for
Lawrence Rockefeller, the course recently underwent
$4.7 million in enhancements.
 Whats
happening in Jackson Hole? • Jackson
gets a lot of the credit -- or, some might say, the blame
--
for inventing cowboy
chic. While other winter resorts like Vail strive for
a kind of European Old World coziness, Jackson and
the surrounding valley, called Jackson Hole, feel wide
open, as though a bustling tourist destination with
challenging ski slopes and a hundred ways to spend
time and money somehow just moseyed up off the open
range.
 Jackson
Hole Grows up • The Jackson Hole Mountain
Resort in Wyoming long prided itself as the dominatrix
of North
America's
ski areas. By day the resort in the shadow of the Grand
Tetons thrilled and bruised its devotees with bucking
bronco-rides down runs like the Paintbrush. It dared them
to try the mine shaft drop into Corbet's Couloir and cajoled
them to doing one more lap on the ski..........
 Jackson
Hole, WY • By Edith
Thys Morgan • Maybe it will happen in winter, atop
Rendezvous Bowl, as your eyes take in the snow-blanketed
valley
that
stretches below and your legs quiver, anticipating
the 4,100glorious vertical feet that fall away beneath
you. Or it might happen early on a quiet summer morning
as you round a corner on your mountain bike and find
your route blocked by a moose. Or perhaps the moment
will come in a quiet fishing spot on the Snake River,
as your gaze wanders up, then farther up, to the jaws
of the Tetons, biting ocean-blue sky. But eventually,
most visitors to Jackson Hole will wonder: Is there
some way - any way at all - to avoid going home?
Jackson
No. 1 for cost of living in Wyoming • JACKSON WYOMING
• High housing and apparel costs kept Jackson the
most expensive place
to live in Wyoming, far surpassing runner-up Sublette
County, according to a survey released Thursday. With
housing costs 71 percent above the statewide average,
Jackson Hole and surrounding Teton County easily held
the No. 1 spot, which it took away from Kemmerer in
1986 and has not given up since. |
Jackson Hole WY is nestled between the
Grand Teton and Gros Ventre mountain ranges. It is home
of Grand
Teton National Park. Jackson Hole is the southern
gateway to Yellowstone National Park. The Snake River
Flows through the Valley and the Grand Tetons tower
above it at 13,770 feet above sea level. Jackson
Hole is also home to the national Elk Refuge where
thousands of elk winter right outside of the town
of Jackson. Jackson Hole is known as the best of
the old west.
