Grand Targhee Resort will open with two lifts on Friday. On Saturday, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort will open for the season with more than 3,000 vertical feet of skiing.
A storm bringing more than 2 feet of snow to parts of Bridger-Teton National Forest last week is raising alarms about the risk of avalanches just as skiers begin entering the backcountry.
A rescued snowboarder at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort inadvertently went out-of-bounds Friday. Grand Teton Officials say that Steven Sprague of South Dakota didn't hear warnings from his friends as they called to him, because he was listening to his Ipod.