Snow King Mountain Resort The Legend makes tracks into the 21st Century
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by Jeff Burke
very town has a hub, essential to its community. For Jackson, Snow King Resort is that hub. Think of a city park, but with a 500-vertical-foot mountain planted in the middle.
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Forming the southern perimeter of the town limits, Snow King is Jackson’s winter stomping ground, where its ski culture has been established over the past seven decades. But in the last few years Snow King has been making beautiful turns. Snow King came to life in 1939,
its first lift the handiwork of Neil Rafferty, who secured for the mountain a rope tow from nearby Teton Pass. Through the decades Snow King grew slowly, creating its own notable history of ski jumping and racing. A flourishing mountain-lifestyle culture has in recent years given Jackson Hole
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