Olympics Preview 2026

A special preview of local athletes in the 2026 Winter Games.

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Wednesday, February 4, 2026

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Teton County sends three homegrown athletes to Winter Olympics in Italy.

By Kyle Leverone SPORTS EDITOR

With 16 sports and 116 medal opportunities, at its core the Winter Olympics are the world’s greatest display of athleticism.

Marveling as athletes bomb down paper-white slopes through imposing mountain courses, or watching in awe as they fly through the air in front of an Italian hamlet backdrop, or sitting on the edge of a seat as they bounce over hardpacked bumps is the draw to watch the Winter Games.

But the storylines are what compel us to cheer. Between the gold medals and the world records and the Ralph Lauren ski jackets, the athletes are the Olympic lifeblood.

The 2026 Winter Games begin today, and this year there will be three athletes representing Teton County.

While Jackson Hole has been home to many Olympic athletes, only a handful have grown up in the Tetons. All three competing in the following weeks — Jaelin Kauf, Breezy Johnson and Anna Gibson — are Teton County products, and these are their storylines:

The Rookie: Anna Gibson, daughter of longtime valley residents Les and Maggie Gibson, has excelled in almost every sport she’s ever picked up. From cross-country running to track to Nordic skiing to mountain running, she’s always had a dream to be an Olympian, and now she is — as a ski mountaineer.

Gibson competed in her first professional skimo race in December and won a World Cup race with relay teammate Cam Smith of Crested Butte, Colorado. The sport is making its debut at the Olympics, and so is Gibson. See page 4C.

The Return: In 2022 ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics, downhiller Breezy Johnson crashed during a training run in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. The Teton County athlete competed in the 2018 Winter Games and was qualified to make her second appearance four years later, but because of her injury sustained in the crash in 2022, she bowed out of Beijing.

Now, after wining the downhill and team combined event in the World Championships last winter, Johnson is back as one of the top Alpine skiers in the world. The women’s downhill takes place on Sunday in Cortina d’Ampezzo. See page 2C.

The Favorite: Grand Targhee’s silver child, Jaelin Kauf, is making her third appearance at the Winter Olympics, and this time she’ll be able to compete in her favorite event: dual moguls.

In 2018 she competed in moguls and placed seventh, and in 2022 she took home a silver medal in moguls. Last year, Kauf put together the greatest freestyle moguls season in American history, collecting all three World Cup Crystal Globes. Dual moguls is on the docket for the first time in Winter Games history, and the hard-charging Kauf is raring to go. See page 3C.

Six medal opportunities are on the table for the three homegrown athletes, who will be competing in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Livigno and Bormio, and the News&Guide will be on the scene for all of it. Cheer on.

— Kyle Leverone

PHOTO CREDITS, LEFT TO RIGHT: ALLESSANDRO TROVATI/AP, MIKE LAWRENCE / U.S. SKI TEAM, KRISTOPHER BRAUNBERGER

Left to right: Breezy Johnson, Jaelin Kauf, Anna Gibson

Breezy Johnson

DOWNHILL AND SUPER-G

By Kyle Leverone SPORTS EDITOR

Breezy Johnson started knitting headbands for her World Cup races about five years ago.

Her first World Cup start was a little over 10 years ago, but she didn’t podium in the downhill until 2021, and she collected four third-place finishes that season. Johnson would wear her home-

Age: 30

Hometown: Victor, Idaho

made headbands after races, and then, as she found consistent success on the World cup circuit, she started knitting headbands for every single downhill race.

Ea ch one takes a few days to complete.

“It kind of became a whole thing,” Johnson said on Monday.

“I have a superstition that I have to have a new one in the finish.”

In her 10-year career, she had never podiumed in the super-G, the

Home hill: Jackson Hole Mountain Resort

• One Olympic appearance

• Gold medal in 2025 World Championships downhill

• Gold medal in 2025 World Championships team combined

other speed event in Alpine skiing, but Johnson was determined to race the event in the upcoming Winter Games. Before last weekend, she already had qualified in the downhill, but she needed one solid run in the super-G to earn her way into that discipline.

Three weeks ago she needed some extra luck, so she knitted a headband for the super-G race in Tarvisio, Italy, and she placed 25th overall and earned her first World Cup points of the season in the event. Last weekend in Crans Montana, Switzerland, she did it again. This time, she collected the first super-G podium of her entire career, placing third.

Now, she’ll have to knit two headbands for the 2026 Winter Olympics.

“I’ve always loved super-G as an event,” Johnson said. “It’s incredibly challenging, and in some ways I feel like I was worried that I wasn’t a good enough skier to ever podium in super-G, so getting a podium was really special for me. Sometimes you underestimate yourself, and then you have a moment like that, and you realize how much you’ve been holding yourself back.”

Johnson’s main event always has been the downhill.

This year, she is arriving at the Winter Olympics as the eighth-ranked downhiller on the World Cup circuit. In the last

Watch parties

Jackson Hole Mountain Resort plans to host watch parties at the Tram Dock for both Breezy Johnson’s and Anna Gibson’s events. For updates, visit JacksonHole.com.

“Breezy embodies the grit, resilience and fearless spirit of the Tetons,” the resort said in a statement last week. “Her ability to push through setbacks speaks to her incredible strength and determination. She races with power, confidence and, most importantly, with heart, and we could not be prouder of her as she represents Jackson Hole at the Games.”

four seasons, since she started knitting headbands, she’s ranked fourth, ninth, 11th and seventh in the discipline.

It is the “classic” Alpine skiing discipline, as Johnson described it. It is the longest discipline, and with fewer turns than the superG and the technical slalom and giant slalom events, it emphasizes pure speed. Last year at World Championships, where Johnson won gold in the downhill, she hit a top speed of 86 mph.

Super-G isn’t much slower, and there are more turns with gates closer together than the downhill.

See BREEZY on 8C

Jaelin Kauf

FREESTYLE MOGULS

By Kyle Leverone SPORTS EDITOR

Jaelin Kauf hated skiing moguls.

Her parents Patti and Scott were professional moguls skiers, and her older brother Skyler loved skiing moguls, but when she was young Jaelin Kauf “hated them,” said Patti Kauf. As a kid, though, she wanted to ski with Skyler, and he always

Age: 29

Hometown: Alta, Wyoming

wanted to ski moguls, so that’s what they did.

Then as a 6-year-old she competed in her first race in Sun Valley, Idaho. Little Jaelin fell three times, but she was the only girl in her age group, so she won, and she received a little medal for her efforts.

From then on, she was hooked, and she since has become one of the most talented American moguls skiers of all

Home hill: Grand Targhee Resort

• Two Olympic appearances

• Silver medal in 2022 Beijing (moguls)

• Gold medal in 2025 World Championships dual moguls

• Two silver medals in World Championships dual moguls

• One silver medal in World Championships moguls

• One bronze medal in World Championships dual moguls World

time. In 2022 at the Beijing Winter Olympics, she added to her already impressive collection of hardware — which began with the little medal in Sun Valley and mostly recently includes three World Cup Crystal Globes — with an Olympic silver medal in freestyle moguls.

The 2026 Winter Olympics start today, and Kauf will compete in her third Games beginning Tuesday. The 29-year-old will chase the last bit of decoration that eludes her, a gold medal, and this year she will have two opportunities to capture it, in moguls and dual moguls — the latter, Kauf’s specialty.

However, between the silver medal and Crystal Globes and the Visa and Toyota commercials, it isn’t the accolades or attention that have kept Kauf hauling downhill week after week, year after year. It’s her pure passion for the sport.

“Her legacy is already cemented, and it’s not about her accomplishment on the hill,” Patti Kauf said last week. “It’s about inspiring and helping the next generation.”

Kauf was born in Vail, Colorado, but she grew up in and calls Teton Valley, Idaho, her home. Now the top American women’s freestyle moguls skier, she learned how to navigate the slopes at Grand Targhee Resort in Alta.

From the beginning, that small and devoted community took her under its kind arm and supported her as she pursued a dream of skiing professionally. When Kauf was just 21 years

old, she appeared in her first Winter Olympics as the gold medal favorite in moguls.

All four American women on the U.S. Team were Olympic rookies, and Kauf was still the oldest, so when she placed seventh and was crushed with disappointment, she had no older veteran to go to for guidance. She was like an oldest sibling who had to figure out life ahead of her younger brothers and sisters.

She did have Teton Valley, though.

“It crushed her for the reason that she felt like she let everyone she knew down,” Patti Kauf said. “But she realized that no one cared how she did. Everyone was just supporting her and was proud that she was there and that she was living her dream.”

From then on, she skied for the love of skiing.

Kauf’s motto in life and in skiing is “Deliver the Love.” Whatever she does and wherever she is, she wants to promote positivity and self-confi dence for others. In the four years after the 2018 Winter Olympics she skied with perspective and profi ciency, and she fi nished each World Cup season in the top 10 in the overall standings.

In the starting gate of her final moguls race during the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Kauf readied herself with a smile on her face.

“We always know Jaelin’s going to do well when she’s smiling in the gate,” Patti Kauf said. “That’s the sign.”

With a final run score of 80.23

See KAUF on 7C

Anna Gibson

Ski Mountaineering

By Kyle Leverone SPORTS EDITOR

This isn’t exactly how Anna Gibson drew it up. Growing up in Jackson Hole, she competed in track, cross-country running and Nordic skiing and won a total of 17 individual Wyoming state titles between the three sports. In 2013 as a freshman at Jackson Hole High School, she was named Gatorade Cross-Country Runner of the Year and won the award again in 2016. One year later, she won a cross-country skiing Junior National Championships race and also became Gatorade Track Athlete of the Year.

In college, she competed in track for the University of Washington and helped break an NCAA record in the distance medley relay. In 2024, Gibson attempted to qualify for the Summer Olympics and competed at the U.S. Olympic Trials in the women’s 1,500-meter run. She fell short and last year transitioned to mountain running, which turned out to be a good

decision.

Last June she won a national title in the U.S. Track and Field Mountain Running Championships, qualifying her for the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in September, where she earned a bronze in the uphill race and helped the American team take third overall as a team. Somewhere in the middle of it all, she picked up gravel bike racing, too.

Yet on Friday, Gibson will participate in the 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Milan, Italy, representing the United States as a ski mountaineering athlete after picking up the sport no more than six months ago.

Last month Gibson admitted that deep down, she’s always wanted to be an Olympian, but what sport she thought she wanted to compete in changed by the season. Eventually, after picking up and excelling in a number of different sports in the past decade, it wasn’t her aptitude in just one that got her into the Winter Games — it was a

Age: 26

Hometown: Teton Village, Wyoming

Home hill: Jackson Hole Mountain Resort

• 17 Wyoming state titles in track, cross-country, Nordic skiing

• Two-time Gatorade Cross-Country Runner of the Year

• 2017 Gatorade Track Athlete of the Year

• Nine-time All-American at Nordic Junior Nationals

• 2017 Junior National champion

• 2024 Summer Olympic Trials appearance

combination of them all.

“I’m having a lot of fun with it,” Gibson said two weeks ago. “There’s a level of intensity — I wouldn’t necessarily call it nerves yet, but the intensity has been pretty high, and I think it’s stretching me a lot as an athlete and as a person.”

The one through-line across Gibson’s career has been endurance. Cross-country and mountain running, Nordic skiing and now ski mountaineering — they’re all about legs and lungs with technical skills tied in.

At some point during her successful running season last summer, the United States Ski Mountaineering Association recognized Gibson’s potential, as one of the nation’s top mountain runners who also grew up skiing, and recruited her to join the team.

After the 2024-25 ski mountaineering, or skimo, season, the United States was just outside of an Olympics qualifying spot and needed to beat Canada in the first World Cup mixed team relay race of the season in order secure a place in the Winter Games.

In November, Gibson competed in a selection camp, earned the top women’s spot on the team and found herself lining up in a professional ski mountaineering race in the fi rst weekend of December.

Instead of beating just Can-

ada, she and mixed team relay partner Cam Smith of Crested Butte, Colorado, won the entire race, and not by a particularly close margin. With a time of 32 minutes, 17.6 seconds, the pair beat second-place Italy by more than 50 seconds and third-place Switzerland by a full minute at Solitude Mountain Resort in Utah. Canada came in seventh, a minute and a half behind Gibson and Smith.

Following the exhilarating victory, both athletes took some time off. Gibson went to Patagonia to run and then skied sporadically when she returned to Jackson. Sometime in January, she picked up a regular training schedule again and did one hard skimo-oriented workout per week, one running workout and backcountry skied when she had the time.

Instead of traveling to a training hub, she used her home here in Jackson as her recipe to stay tuned. A bit of Snow King, a pinch of Mount Glory, a sprinkle of skiing in Grand Teton National Park. A mix of everything Jackson Hole.

“The biggest thing I’ve been working on is just trying to maintain and not over-send,” Gibson said. “Because it’s really easy to get super excited about the Olympics and then think that you need to train really hard ... I had a defi nitive conSee GIBSON on 7C

• Gold at 2025 U.S. Track and Field Mountain Running Championships

• Bronze at 2025 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships

U.S. hockey teams pose gold medal threat

By Kyle Leverone SPORTS EDITOR

For the first time in more than a decade, there will be best-on-best men’s hockey in the Winter Olympics.

For 12 years — since the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi — National Hockey League players were not permitted to participate in the quadrennial Games because they occurred during the league’s regular season. Instead, the United States has played the last two Olympics with minor league players and athletes from other European leagues, which paused their regular seasons.

In the 2018 Winter Games, the Olympic Athletes from Russia defeated Germany, and in 2022 Finland beat the Russians. Canada and the United States were most impacted by the NHL’s decision to not allow its players to play in the Olympics because both nations rosters’ were made up, almost exclusively, of NHL players.

Two years ago, though, the International Ice Hockey Federation and the NHL reached an agreement to allow a break in the regular season — as it had done between 1998 and 2014 — and for NHL players to return to the athletic world’s grandest stage.

And although Canada will arrive in Milan as the favorite to win gold, the United States has never been in a better position to challenge its neighbors to the north.

“The competition is going to be unbelievable, and I couldn’t be more excited,” said Utah Mammoth captain and Team USA forward Clayton Keller last month. “You want to play against the best players in the world, and that’s ultimately why the NHL players wanted to be there so badly is to have the best on best.”

The first example of beston-best competition is the 1972 Summit Series between the Soviet National Team and a Canadian professional team. The series lasted eight games, and it sparked global interest. In 1976, the inaugural Canada Cup became the first international hockey championship to allow nations to field

Men haven’t won since Miracle; women aim to recapture gold from 2018.

their top players. Teams from Canada, the Soviet Union, the United States, Czechoslovakia, Finland and West Germany competed. Canada won.

From 1976 to 1991, the Canada Cup was held five times and was ultimately replaced by the World Cup of Hockey in 1996. The United States won the inaugural tournament — its last best-onbest tournament title — and Canada won the other two World Cups that were held in 2004 and 2016.

By the time of the second World Cup, though, NHLers were admitted into the Olympics.

Before 1988, NHL players weren’t even eligible to participate in the Winter Olympics, as the International Olympic Committee allowed only amateur athletes to compete. The IIHF hosted these other competitions in the summer as the only feasibly best-onbest tournaments. In 1988 the IOC finally granted permission to professional athletes to compete in its Winter Games, but it took 10 years before the NHL agreed to pause its regular season and let its players compete, as well.

In the five Winter Olympics between 1998 and 2014, Canada won three gold medals, and Sweden and the Czech Republic won one each.

The last time the American men’s hockey team won gold at the Winter Olympics,

its medal round victory over the Soviet Union was such a shocking outcome, sports broadcaster Al Michaels posed — and then answered — this question to the world: “Do you believe in miracles?”

“Yes!” he shouted into his microphone inside the Lake Placid Olympic Center in 1980. The famed upset became known as the “Miracle on Ice.”

If the United States won gold in the 2026 Winter Olympics on Feb. 22, it would still be a surprise but much less so than 46 years ago.

The U.S. Team is led by one of the NHL’s top goal scorers, Auston Matthews, and scrappy brothers Matthew and Brady Tkachuk. In last year’s 4 Nations Face-Off — which featured only NHL players on Canadian, Finnish, Swedish and American rosters — the Tkachuks started a line brawl on the opening draw in the gold medal game against Canada. Canada won the game 3-2 in overtime, after the United States beat Canada 3-1 several days prior in the preliminary round.

One of the top strengths of the American team’s roster is goaltending. Starting in net will most likely be defending Vezina Trophy winner for the NHL’s best goalie and Hart Trophy winner for the league’s most valuable player, Connor Hellebuyck of the Winnipeg Jets.

For Canada, goaltending

is more of a question mark. Logan Thompson, from the Washington Capitals, is currently injured, and Jordan Binnington of the St. Louis Blues possesses the fourthworst goals against average in the NHL this season. Canada’s top option at this point is its third goalie Darcy Kuemper from the Los Angeles Kings, who has logged a pedestrian .902 save percentage this year.

The rest of its roster will present a major issue for the rest of the world.

Some of the game’s most notable names will grace Canada’s lineup card come Feb. 12 when the team faces Czechia in its first preliminary round game. Connor McDavid is the most talented player in the history of the game, and Nathan McKinnon is a former Hart Trophy and Ted Lindsay Award winner, as the most outstanding player voted on by his peers.

On the back line, Colorado Avalanche’s Cale Makar, who won the Norris Memorial Trophy last year for being the league’s best defenseman, will lead the group. Among the newcomers on the team, Macklin Celebrini is third in the NHL in assists and fourth overall in points. Brad Marchand of the Boston Bruins will add an edge to the roster, as will Washington’s Tom Wilson.

And how could one forget one of the greatest players of all time, Sydney Crosby. The Pittsburgh Penguins captain wore the “C” for Team Canada in 2010 and 2014 and scored the game-winning overtime goal in 2010 during the Vancouver Winter Olympics to win the gold medal over the United States.

The American women’s hockey team is a much more likely gold medal contender than its male counterpart.

Since the first time the Olympics included a women’s tournament in 1998 both the United States and Canada have medaled in every Winter Games. The United States won gold in the inaugural competition and won again in 2018, and Canada has won every other tournament. The only time the U.S. didn’t win silver

in those years was when it earned bronze in 2006.

Two years ago, the Professional Women’s Hockey League launched as the first women’s league to pay its players salaries. Previous leagues were structured as nonprofits. Now, with eight teams — four in America, four in Canada — the PWHL is growing and expanding in new markets. The league has put a spotlight on the best players in the world, and for the first time it will take a pause, just as the NHL is doing, and will send them to the Winter Olympics.

Sun Valley, Idaho, native and four-time Olympic medalist Hilary Knight of the Seattle Torrent will return as the Team USA’s captain. America also has the PWHL’s top four points leaders in Kendall Coyne Schofield, Britta Curl-Salemme, Taylor Heise and Kelly Pannek, all of whom play for the Minnesota Frost. Heise leads the league in assists, and Coyne Schofield is second in the league in goals.

In net for the Americans, Aerin Franklin from the Boston Fleet is tied for the league lead in wins with Ann-Renne Desbiens of the Montreal Victoire and member of the Canadian team. Czechia possesses this year’s top goal scorer in Kristyna Kaltounkova of the New York Sirens.

The American women will play Czechia tomorrow in the first game of the preliminary round. They will then play Finland on Saturday, Switzerland on Monday and Canada on Tuesday. The women’s playoffs begin on Feb. 16, and the gold medal game is Feb. 19.

The men’s preliminary round starts on Wednesday, Feb. 11, and the Americans open against Latvia on Feb. 12. Team U SA will face Denmark on the 14th and then Germany on the 15th. The playoff round begins on Feb. 17, and the gold medal game will be on the final day of the 2026 Winter Olympics, Feb. 22.

Contact Kyle Leverone at 307-732-7065 or sports@ jhnewsandguide.com.

Cowboy coaster pushes her way to Cortina

By Kyle Leverone SPORTS EDITOR

A former University of Wyoming Cowboy is going to the Winter Olympics.

Barring any surprising developments, former track and field athlete Sadie McMullen won’t compete in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, but she’ll have a front-row seat to the action. Two weeks ago the University announced that she had been selected as an alternate push athlete for the USA Bobsled and Skeleton Olympic team. McMullen will travel and train with the team but only will race in competition in case of injury or illness.

Late in 2024, McMullen joined USABS after attending a rookie bobsledding camp and competing at the team selection races. At the time she was a graduate student at the University of Wyoming and

was selected to be one of six push athletes on the nation’s bobsled World Cup team.

Bobsled differs from skeleton and luge in that it is the only one of the three that is predominantly a team sport. Bobsledders start races by pushing their sled to generate speed prior to jumping in and sliding down an ice track in a seated position. A fourperson bobsled team includes a pilot, who steers with ropes that are connected to the sled’s front runners, a brakeman and two push athletes. In competition, sleds can reach around 90 miles per hour.

Skeleton is exclusively a solo event, where athletes run around 130 feet to start and then assume a head-first prone position. Luge is considered the most dangerous, as athletes ride down the ice track on a sled feet first, flat on their backs. Both skeleton and luge sleds are steered by shifts in body weight and angling their descents to turn corners in the

fastest time possible. Neither have brakes.

The track and field to bobsled transition isn’t uncommon. McMullen holds the University of Wyoming’s No. 2 indoor and No. 4 outdoor long jump marks in school history. Of the eight athletes named to the U.S. Olympic Bobsled Team, six have competed in collegiate track and field.

Across the three disciplines — bobsled, skeleton and luge — the United States has won 11 gold medals, 15 silvers and 10 bronze. Vonetta Flowers is one of the nation’s most notable bobsled competitors who became the first Black athlete ever to win a Winter Olympics gold medal. Alongside Jill Bakken, she won the two-woman bobsled race in the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.

Contact Kyle Leverone at 307-732-7065 or sports@ jhnewsandguide.com.

CHARLES KRUPA / AP FILE

The United States’ Brady Tkachuk cross-checks Canada’s Devon Toews during the 4 Nations Face-Off championship hockey game last year in Boston. The 4 Nations tournament was the first best-on-best hockey competition since 2016, and the upcoming Winter Olympics will be the first to have NHL players compete since 2014.

Here comes Diggins, one last time

American cross-country skiing legend Jessie Diggins is top-ranked woman in the world ahead of 2026 Winter Olympics.

By Kyle Leverone SPORTS EDITOR

Before Jessie Diggins, the Unit ed States was an afterthought in the realm of Olympic cross-country skiing.

Between Bill Koch’s silver medal in the men’s 30-kilometer race at the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Olympics and 2018, no Americans won medals at the quadrennial Winter Games. But then the St. Paul, Minnesota, native arrived on the scene.

Now, as she prepares to compete in her fourth and final Olympics, Diggins is the top-ranked crosscountry skier in the world.

Diggins first experienced the feeling of being on top of the world in 2018 as she edged out Sweden’s Stina Nilsson by 19 hundredths of a second in the women’s team sprint at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games.

“Here comes Diggins! Here comes Diggins! Yes! Yes! Yes! Gold!” yelled Nordic sports color commentator Chad Slamela in one of the most memorable calls in recent Olympics memory. For the first time ever, an American had won a cross-country skiing gold medal, and Diggins did it alongside longtime American racer, Kikkan Randall.

The Diggins story

As a 22-year-old, Diggins made her Olympics debut during the 2014 Sochi Winter Games.

She had raced in college at North ern Michigan University and in her first Olympics she placed eighth in the 15-kilometer skiathlon, an event that involves both classic and freestyle techniques in the same race.

Then four years later she put together the greatest performance in American cross-country skiing history. At the conclusion of the 2018 Winter Olympics, the United States chose her to be the nation’s flag bearer during the closing ceremony.

Since then, Diggins and the U.S. Team have been on the rise. In 2018, the same year she won gold, Diggins finished in the top 10 in all six women’s cross-country skiing events. In 2022 at the Beijing Winter Olympics, she completed the same feat and added silver and bronze medals to her collection, becoming the first American to win an individual Olympic medal in a sprint and the first non-European skier to win a medal in the women’s 30K freestyle.

Diggins raised the bar in Beijing, and at the present moment, her bar is as high as it goes.

With three victories on the World Cup circuit this year, she is first in distance standings, sixth in sprint and first overall. In addition to her 5K, 10K skiathlon and Tour de Ski wins this season, she also has collected four second-place, and two third-place finishes.

After 16 years of skiing professionally, Diggins is at the peak of her career, and she intends to go out that way. In November, she announced that this would be her final season. Her last World Cup race weekend is set to be in Lake Placid, New York, in March. At the conclusion of the races, the thousands expected to attend will be able to click into their own skinny skis and glide beside her on the course, according to a November article by The Athletic.

JACKSON HOLE OLYMPIANS

Betty Woolsey

Sis Wigglesworth

Pepi Stiegler

Karen Budge*

Alpine Skiing 1936, 1940

Alpine Skiing 1936, 1940

Alpine Skiing 1960, 1964

Alpine Skiing 1968, 1972

Pete Karns* Biathlon 1972

Martin Hagen Biathlon 1976, 1980, 1984

Kelly Milligan*

Hans Johnstone

Cross-Country Skiing 1984

Nordic Combined 1988

Erich Wilbrecht* Biathlon 1992

Nancy Bell-Johnstone Biathlon 1992

Jim Curran

Megan Gerety

Tommy Moe

Hannah Hardaway

Resi Stiegler*

Cross-Country Skiing 1992

Alpine Skiing 1994

Alpine Skiing 1992, 1994, 1998

Freestyle Moguls 2002

Alpine Skiing 2006, 2014, 2018

Breezy Johnson* Alpine Skiing 2018, 2026

Jaelin Kauf*

Anna Gibson*

Freestyle Moguls 2018, 2022, 2026

Ski Mountaineering 2026

Bolded numbers denote a gold medal won that year.

Asterisks denote athletes who were born or raised in Jackson Hole.

D iggins is calling it “Jessie’s last lap.”

Americans in Italy

But before then, the acclaimed American cross-country skier has six Olympic events to look forward to in Tesero, Italy: the 10K-plus10K skiathlon, 50K classic, fourby-7.5K relay, classic sprint, team freestyle sprin t and the women’s 10K freestyle.

All events will be held at Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium in the Val di Fiemme region. They are set to run from Feb. 7 to Feb. 22.

Joining Diggins on the American roster will be Julia Kern, set to make her second Olympics appearance, and Rosie Brennan, who in 2020 became the second American cross-country skier ever to win backto-back World Cup races. New to the U.S. Team is 20-year-old Stanford

Skiing and shooting

In the biathalon, which combines cross-country skiing and rifle target shooting, the United States lags Europe. Historically, Germany and France have had the most success, and America has not: The sport made its debut in 1960, and it is the only event in which the United States has not won a medal.

Deedra Irwin is considered the top American female biathlete and took seventh in the 15K individual event at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics — the best American individual biathlon finish ever.

Campbell Wright, who competed for New Zealand in 2022, recently traded the Blue Ensign with a Union Jack for the Stars and Stripes and will represent the United States in this year’s Winter Games. He is only 23 years old but is the top American biathlete, having won silver medals in the sprint and pursuit events at the 2025 World Championships. Will there be another Diggins somewhere in the biathlon mix? Worth a thought.

University soccer player Sammy Smith, a Boise, Idaho, native who gre w up skiing with the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation. The top American male skier is Gus Schmacher, currently 10th in the World Cup overall standings. This will be his second appearance at the Olympics. Ben Ogden is also competing in his second Winter Games, as is J.C. Schoonmaker.

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TERJE PEDERSEN / AP

Jessie Diggins of the United States skates her way to win the women’s 20-kilometer pursuit classic, part of the Tour de Ski cross-country skiing event last month, in Dobbiaco, Italy. Ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics, Diggins is the top-ranked women’s cross-country skier in the world.

points, she placed second behind Australia’s Jakara Anthony and won an Olympic silver medal.

“To see her win that silver, it changed her life right there,” Patti Kauf said. “As an athlete, whether you like it or not, you’re defined by how you perform on the biggest stage. And after that, it’s gravy. The monkey’s off your back. Now, you can just go and have fun.”

Kauf continued to build.

Last year, she put together the greatest moguls World Cup season in American history, securing all three Crystal Globes for moguls, dual moguls and overall points.

Every athlete dreams of winning an Olympic medal, but winning a Globe is unquestionably more difficult. Winning a Globe demonstrates who the best skier is across an entire season against a full field of athletes; whereas in the Olympics the field is smaller, and only one set of races matters.

On top of the Crystal Globes, Kauf won her first World Championships gold medal last year in dual moguls, a sport that will make its debut on Feb. 14 in Livigno, Italy.

Moguls skiers earn points from judges for turns, jumps and time, and a perfect score in singles is 100. Turns account for 60% of an athlete’s score, and air and speed are worth 20% each. In dual moguls, racers go head-to-head on parallel courses, and judges compare the two directly. Thirty-five points are distributed between the two. Both events include two jumps — one at the top, the other near the bottom.

This year, in a season that has had several races canceled, Kauf won the only duals event in Val St. Come, Canada, and thus is the top-ranked duals skier in the world.

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versation with my coach where we made the choice to keep training the way that I am rather than trying to reinvent the wheel.”

Last weekend, she competed in her second World Cup race in Spain and placed seventh in the mixed team relay with Smith after strong individual qualifying runs. The day before, Gibson placed 21st in sprints, and Smith took 40th.

At the Olympics, Gibson and Smith will compete in both sprints and the mixed team relay, though Gibson said they are both largely homed in on the relay.

Individual sprint races in ski mountaineering typically last between two and a half to three minutes and involve one ascent and one descent. The ascent includes three stages, beginning with skinning up a slope, then putting one’s skis in a backpack and running up a set of stairs, followed by a final skinned ascent before ripping the skins of the skis and skiing down through gates.

In the mixed team relay, two competitors take two laps, alternately, and each lap lasts seven to eig ht minutes for a total of about 30. One lap consists of skinning up, skiing down, skinning up, bootpacking up stairs, skinning up again, and the n skiing down and tagging one’s partner in. The elevation gain in sprints is standardized 70 meters, or 230 feet, and in the mixed relay it is double that.

The most consequential areas in which athletes can make up or lose time are in the transitions — ripping skins off or putting them back on or putting skis in a backpack and clicking back in.

Luckily for Gibson, she practices

Cup, ‘Who is the one person you don’t want to go against?’ 100 percent of the girls would say Jaelin,” Patti Kauf said. “One hundred percent. She just thrives in that environment.”

Last summer Grand Targhee Resort hosted a sendoff party for Kauf, and a whole crush of people holding cardboard cutouts of the letter “J” lined up to talk to her and wish her well. Now, similar cutouts are hanging from trees and posted all along Ski Hill Road leading to the resort in Alta. Highlights of Kauf skiing through bumps and flipping through

the air play on screens all around the base.

On duals day, Targhee will broadcast coverage of the event and celebrate its athlete, whatever her result may be.

“We couldn’t be happier to have Jaelin on our athlete team and as part of our ecosystem up here,” said Targhee’s senior marketing manager Jordan Wilsted, “not only because of the caliber of athlete that she is, but because of the type of person that she is.”

About 50 of the “J’s,” as members

that on a regular basis in the backcountry with friends.

“It’s honestly crazy how much

it changes your perspective, and especially with backcountry skiing where the transitions take time,”

of Kauf’s entourage calls themselves, will be on site in Livigno, watching as she makes her third appearance on the world’s grandest stage. Watching as she attempts to secure a gold medal.

Watching for a smile.

“This is her dream,” Patti Kauf said, “and no matter how she does, just to get this opportunity, it’s amazing. But she’s obviously gunning for the gold.”

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Gibson said. “It’s when you want to drink your tea and have a conversation and all that, and I just whip through the transition, and I’m just standing there.”

Though ski mountaineering and European randonnee rallies have existed for many decades, this will be the first time the sport has appeared at the Winter Olympics. Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, in fact, used to hold the North American Championships for skimo in the early 2000s through 2010s.

Sprint races will take place on Feb. 19 in Bormio, Italy, and then the mixed team relay will run on Feb. 21. Between Gibson and Smith, about 40 to 50 people — including USA Skimo teammates — will be in attendance, rooting for the only two American skimo athletes at the Olympics.

Before Gibson ever lined up at the start of a World Cup race, the rest of the USA Skimo athletes got the team to where it needed to be in order to qualify for the Olympics. Points from last season carried over, and all Gibson and Smith had to do was get past Canada in December — not a light task — and now they’re going to the Winter Games.

It’s never just one thing that gets athletes to the pinnacle of sport. It’s timing and teammates. It’s tenacity and tact. It’s rigor and rest.

It’s a little bit of everything.

“I wish all of our teammates could come with us, to be honest,” Gibson said. “I also feel like I’m representing a lot more than just myself because they all helped us qualify. I could not have done any of this without the athletes on the U.S. Team, so I feel so honored to be the one that’s going to battle for us.”

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Jaelin Kauf soars off a jump during the World Cup stop last month in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire. Kauf is making her third Winter Olympics appearance in freestyle moguls this week.

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Anna Gibson of Teton Village puts her skins on during a transition during the season’s first World Cup race in December at Solitude Mountain Resort in Utah.

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Johnson compared the two to driving 80 mph on an interstate highway versus going 75 mph on backroads.

“It’s a lot of adapting and pushing really hard, but you have to really understand how to do it, and you have to know how to do it on the fly at those speeds,” Johnson said.

To qualify for the U.S. Alpine Ski Team’s Olympic roster, Johnson had to record one of the top three results among her American teammates in one of the disciplines. With a fourth-place finish in the downhill two months ago in Switzerland, she secured a spot on the team, alongside Lindsey Vonn — who won two downhill races this season — and Jackie Wiles, who placed third last month in Austria.

The qualification window closed on Jan. 18, and Johnson had not recorded a top-three super-G result among Americans, but last weekend she had one last chance to earn a spot in the discipline at the Olympics. The next best American result would compete in the Olympics, and before last weekend’s race in Crans Montana, Switzerland, Wiles held that spot with 19th. Johnson had to beat that, and her third-place finish left no doubt.

Maybe only to others, though.

The entire way down, she said she felt like a “hot mess.” She didn’t feel like she skied a tight line in some spots and then almost crashed at the bottom.

“I crossed the finish line and thought, ‘I hope this is a top-15, but this might be dead last,’” Johnson said. “I was so surprised when I saw it.”

This will be Johnson’s second appearance in the Winter Olympics. Now 30 years old, she grew up in Victor, Idaho, and skied with the Jackson Hole Ski and Snowboard Club. In 2018, she placed seventh in the downhill and 14th in the super-G during the PyeongChang Winter Games.

Ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, she crashed and injured herself during a training run in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, the site of this year’s downhill and super-G.

She could not compete in Beijing, and then in 2023 Johnson was suspended 14 months for three violations of rules requiring athletes to provide daily whereabouts information to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

Last year was her comeback year, and her return was glorious.

At the World Championships in Saalbach, Austria, she struck gold twice — in the downhill and team combined with Mikaela Shiffrin. On the World Cup, at World Championships or in the Olympics, Johnson had never won gold until then.

Johnson arrived in Cortina on Monday, and while many other athletes are excited to bask in the glory of the Olympics and take in every bit

of the extravagant experience, she just wants to race.

“You’re not at the Olympics until you are in the start for the downhill, feeling good, ready to go,” Johnson said. “And then you have to finish.”

She is not planning on attending the opening or closing ceremonies, and instead she is focusing her attention on competing.

“What I love about the Olympics is the competition, is watching the best athletes,” Johnson said.

Johnson isn’t concerned about returning to the course that wiped her out of the 2022 Winter Olympics and says she’s come to terms with it. It’s a classic setting that dives through the Dolomites, and includes a picturesque

jump through the iconic Tofana Schuss (see page 9C for the course map).

But again, Johnson’s no-frills, mild-manner ed and reasonable approach oversees the glamour of the course.

“The hill is a hill,” Johnson said. “It doesn’t love me. It doesn’t hate me. It rewards those that go out and ski it, and it punishes those that don’t do it properly. So, I have to work on the former and avoid the latter.”

Johnson will compete in the downhill at 3:30 a.m. MST Sunday and in the super-G at 3:30 a.m. on Feb. 12.

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Jackson Hole’s Breezy Johnson speeds down a women’s World Cup downhill course two months ago in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

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Breezy Johnson and Willa Faust, 10, a young Jackson Hole Ski and Snowboard Club racer, pose for a photo with Johnson’s two World Championship gold medals last year during a meet-and-greet in Teton Village. Johnson is the defending world champion in the women’s downhill heading into Sunday’s Olympic run.

The twists and turns of the women’s Downhill and Super G course

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Crittenden battling for podium

Bondurant racer who plays long game will begin picking off competitors.

OBy Christina MacIntosh ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTER

n Thursday morning, Alix Crittenden woke at 4 a.m. to deliberate, over coffee, which 16 dogs to put on her roster for the 31st annual Stage Stop race. It wasn’t an easy decision to make.

Because of the forecasted abovefreezing temperatures, Tommy and Debbie, who run hot, had to be cut. Netty, an old favorite, was eliminated because she was actually in heat — and trying to seduce some of her teammates. Four two-year-olds from the same litter — known as the Vodka Boys, as the puppies were named after liquor brands such as Ciroc and Tito — weren’t ready for the big leagues.

The team has a couple of “oldies and dependables” and some newcomers, Crittenden said.

Later that morning, Crittenden took the Vodka Boys for a goodbye run on the Granite Creek Road, trailing them on a snow machine, before leaving them at the Jackson Hole Iditarod kennel. There were still more tasks to be done: vet checks, cleaning out meat buckets, picking up parents from the airport.

Now, four stages into the race, Crittenden, who lives in Bondurant and is the only Wyoming musher in the race, is in fourth place, having moved up a position between the third and fourth stages. She is 14 minutes behind third place racer Bruce Magnusson.

Three stages — one in Kemmerer and two in Lander — remain.

Crittenden, 38, finished in third last year, while undergoing chemotherapy for a bra in tumor. She was in fifth going into the final day of the race but made up 13 minutes — beating out all the other teams that stage — for a podium finish. She beat fourth-place finisher Stéphane Roy by less than a minute overall.

“The idea is to stay with the rest of the pack, but that doesn’t mean

that you will be winning,” Crittenden said Monday evening. “You just want to stay within reach and keep the dogs healthy, because our way of racing is to improve as we go.”

The team has been eating and drinking well , wolfing down their boiled eggs in record time — and making Crittenden fear for her fingers. Handler An na Erqish and former handler Jess Moore have been massaging the dogs, and Erqish has been tending to their feet.

“Despite running on them, they’re not looking worse every

day,” Crittenden said. “They’re looking better every day.”

Teams have now raced the Pinedale and Big Piney/Marbleton courses twice. Crittenden raced each course faster the second time than the first time.

After exercising restraint for four stages, Crittenden will stop holding the dogs back today, when they race in Kemmerer. The Kemmerer stage is one of the two stages Crittenden has ever won.

Race director Dan Carter speculated last week that the dry condi -

tions could make for record times this race, unlike last year, when racers were contending with rain, slush and low visibility.

So far, that prediction seems to be holding true. Crittenden completed the 34-mile first stage in Pinedale a little under 10 minutes faster than last year. She completed the first Big Piney/Marbleton stage 1.5 minutes faster than last year.

Anny Malo, a racer from Quebec, Canada, who has won six of the last seven Stage Stop races, is in first

confident Kings and Queens will fly

Crews are crafting a course for another ‘incredible year of competition.’

By Charley Sutherland GOVERNMENT REPORTER

Despite weeks of marginal snowfall, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort is confident its signature competition, Kings and Queens of Corbet’s, will happen next week.

“We’re feeling good,” resort communications manager Andriana Rogers said about conditions. “Crews are actively working on the competition venue, and the forecast is showing a storm cycle during the event window that should set up Corbet’s for another incredible year of competition.”

The competition is a sight to behold. Hardcore skiers and snowboarders twist, flip and huck themselves into one of the most daunting inbounds ski runs in the world.

Instead of scheduling the event for a specific day, the resort schedules a “weather window” to optimize for the best skiing conditions each winter.

This year’s window is Saturday to Feb. 14. When conditions are right, the resort will make the call and alert fans the night before, Rogers said.

Jackson Hole meteorologist Jim Woodmencey’s Mountain Weather forecast calls for sunny skies and warm temperatures throughout the rest of the

week. Thursday’s high is 48 degrees Fahrenheit. Friday’s high is 49. The storm the resort is tracking is scheduled to hit the Teton region Monday, according to long range forecasts. In 2024, the resort had to call off the competition. The snowpack was too slim and dangerous, resort leaders said.

It was the first time in the event’s history that low snow stopped Kings and Queen’s. Skiers and snowboarders have competed in deep powder snow and low-tide conditions, alike.

Wyatt Gentry, a skier born and raised in Victor, Idaho, is among the athletes slated to participate.

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Alix Crittenden of Bondurant crosses the starting line Friday during the Stage Stop sled dog race’s ceremonial start on Town Square. In last year’s race, Crittenden won third place overall.

Firehole River opening is new holiday

Dramatic variables from snowmelt, cold springs and geyser runoff create constantly changing water temperatures in all sections of Yellowstone’s Firehole River. Favorite trout fishing periods are during the early and late seasons, May to June and September to October. Recent years of increasingly warm summer temperatures encouraged the Park Service to open the Gibbon, Firehole and Madison rivers to fly fishing earlier on May 1. Traditional opening came on Saturday of Memorial Day weekend.

By total accident Yellowstone National Park has turned the new opening day on the Firehole River into a fishing holiday again.

Last week park headquarters at Mammoth Hot Springs reported an earlier May 1, 2026, opening for fishing artificial flies on the Firehole, Gibbon and Madison (the confluence of the first two) rivers. In recent seasons these interior rivers had opened on Saturday of Memorial Day weekend.

Long before the current park fishery regime, inner park waters opened annually on May 24. This marvelous and frequent midweek treat landed between Montana’s and Idaho’s standard weekend river openings. Northwest Wyoming’s Snake River used to open April 1.

I cherish 1970s-’80s memories of those enjoyable and uncrowded midweek Firehole opening days with friends. Overnighting at Jackson Lake Lodge after the Spring Fling positioned me even closer to the open Firehole.

I have difficulty believing the big park even realized it might be helping Montana reclaim its oncerobust fly-fishing tourist industry. Earlier and lengthier summer heat-ordered “hoot owl” stream closings have plagued Big Sky Country angling endeavors.

Gibbon and Firehole watercourses are surrounded by fumaroles and fed by numerous hot springs. These affect overwinter snow buildup and create easier wild animal corridor access. Interrupting wildlife previously has been park reasoning behind not allowing earlier human fishing entry. In recent summers Yellowstone has closed river fishing during periods of excessive heat.

The Firehole River is an internationally famous phenomenon known as the world’s most unusual trout stream. It features wild rainbows and browns. Originally devoid of trout and sculpin, this treacherous lava streambed is tricky to navigate and specializes in shredding everything but the most rugged wader gear. Firehole swimming is not encouraged,

but many anglers, including myself, regularly enjoy quality submersions thanks the stream’s numerous invisible chasms.

I began exploring the Firehole, Gibbon and Madison rivers in the 1960s during September and October Air Force leaves. Key to my early park enthusiasm was Ray Bergman’s historic “Trout,” and especially his Yellowstone park fishing adventures with ranger Scotty Chapman.

All-night fuel stops were few in the early 1970s, but the park’s uncrowded October rivers made hurried cross-country drives rewarding. Adding a custom 20-gallon auxiliary gas tank to my Chevy Blazer allowed my around-the-clock driving to Wyoming, Montana and Yellowstone.

Discovery to Firehole, Madison and Gibbon secrets wasn’t easy. I had plenty of early help from pioneer Yellowstone anglers such as Jim Dan skin, Bud Lilly, Pat Barns, Greg Lilly, Bob Jacklin, Dave Corcoran, Red and Marge Davis, Koke Winter, Paul Brown, George Kelly, John Simms, Jay Buchner, Dan Abrams and Cal Dunbar. My park and general fishing efforts improved greatly upon receiving exceptional entomology aid from Blue Ribbon Flies masters Craig Matthews and John Juracek.

the Firehole changes temperatures, current speed and water conditions. This river is a master class of confusing variables, even to the most experienced.

Previously, few have ever been permitted to access the Firehole, Gibbon and Madison as early as May 1. This season will add an exciting new chapter to Yellowstone National Park trout fishing.

Our man in Belize

A distressing email message in mid-January disclosed the passing of Belize River Lodge co-owner Mike Heusner. Mike was 87.

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My introduction to Belize and its varied jungle, flats and reef fishing came from Oregon photojournalist and fly fishing sales representative Brian O’Keefe. Brian had extensively explored Central America along with nearly everywhere else. Soon after England recognized Belizes’s new independence (1981) after a century of being British Honduras, Brian’s travel reports encouraged fly rod artists from all points to experience it.

From Monkey River to the Turneff Atoll’s surrounding islands along the world’s second-longest living coral reef sprang abundant opportunities to chase bonefish, permit and tarpon.

Heusner purchased Kellers in 1986 and thus, with his wife, Marguerite, began the Belize River Lodge. He emphasized fly-fishing both river and flats as well as a solid catch-and-release philosophy. This was excellent timing for the convenient lodge to enjoy the coming wave of fly-fishing popularity. Being nearby the new airport terminal was even more of a bonus.

Mike and Marguerite were the perfect hosts. They also inadvertently became parent figures to the endless stream of “eternal sons and daughters” who regularly appeared with fly rods. A perfect example and future luminary was Jeff Currier. Jeff thrived at Belize River Lodge back when he wrangled JD Outdoors’ fishing department. Mike, Marguerite, daughter Misha and son-in-law Dirk have become favorite Jackson Hole September “locals” and JH One Fly sponsors.

I’ll always remember my trips to Belize River Lodge. I loved chasing snook and tarpon, barracuda and bonefish. Even better, sitting with Mike in the lodge over an icy glass of “Ship” (local Tiburon Rum) and reviewing Belize stories or spotting cashew trees, monkeys and parrots along his river.

The Belize River Lodge has excelled in designing sensational stories and memories for me. And there was nobody better at warming the rich, mahogany-filled lodge interior than Mike Heusner’s storytelling.

It wasn’t until relocating to Jackson in 1973 that I was able to study early-season park river fishing. High runoffs, sudden blizzards and closed roads were variable conditions suffered by May and June anglers. Firehole nuances especially remain delicate puzzles. These may include dry fly grasshopper activity in early May, the canyon section’s difficult-to-time salmon fly emergence and dragonfly nymphs crawling out on Biscuit Basin’s weeds.

Between all its familiar landmarks like the Iron Bridge, Mule Shoe Bend, Fountain Flat (Freight) Road, Midway Geyser Basin and Ojo Caliente,

Mike Heusner grew up fishing the mangrove creeks and river surrounding Belize City. In 1970 he returned after college in California to work in clothing manufacturing before moving to the recreation and tourism industry.

Ten years later Mike became the manager of Keller Caribbean Sports. This sport fishing haunt originated in Cuba as Vic Barothy’s famous Isle of Pines houseboat bonefishing operation. Barothy survived Castro’s government takeover but soon realized that saving his operation demanded a nighttime escape to British Honduras.

I saved this early June email from Jeff Currier that ended: “Heading down to Belize this week for one last visit with Mike Heusner and family. I’m really hoping he has it in him to take the head of the dinner table. Those were the days!”

So long, Mike. We treasure your friendship and the passion directed to serving your clients and introducing them to Belize’s natural wonders.

Paul Bruun writes every other week about his adventures and misadventures in the great outdoors. Contact him via columnists@ jhnewsandguide.com.

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Sports Review

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Boss pins major milestone in Lander

By Kyle Leverone SPORTS EDITOR

Two weeks ago, just a couple of days after celebrating his senior night with a dual meet victory at home, Jackson Hole High School wrestler Hunter Boss won his 100th match.

The entire week was a full-circle seven days.

Four years ago , Boss was the only freshman on the team and looked up to all the upperclassmen for support. On Jan. 20, he hit the mat during the team’s dual against Evanston as one of the only seniors on the wrestling team, which now has a large group of freshmen.

That weekend, the Broncs competed at a tournament in Lander, the same place Boss wrestled in his first varsity tournament. In his third match of the weekend, he took Torrington’s Colby Sandusky — a former 3A state champion — the distance and won 9-1. Boss had no idea it was his 100th victory until his teammates surprised him with a poster.

Last weekend at the esteemed Ron Thon Memorial Wrestling Tournament in Riverton, he won five matches against Wind River, Tor-

By Kyle Leverone SPORTS EDITOR

Boys’ swimming breaks records

Although the Jackson Hole High School boys’ swimming team has existed for only four years, the times on the varsity record board were set well before by club swimmers who trained in Jackson. Last weekend the Broncs placed fifth out of five teams at the Kemmerer Invitational meet, but in a meter pool they broke four of those preexisting school records.

Freshman Warren Reimer set two new marks with a 26.60-second 50-meter freestyle swim and 1:11.21 in the 100-meter breaststroke. Both records were set several years before Reimer was born.

The other two records were in relay races. In the 200-meter medley relay, Quinten Frobouck, Reimer, Eugene Spankie and Max Heimbouch swam a 2:03.53, and in the 200-meter freestyle relay race, the same four swam a 1:55.29.

On top of the new records, sophomore Drake Wayland punched his ticket to the state meet, as the sixth member of the team to do so, with a 27.74-second 50-meter freestyle. He placed fifth in the event.

Spankie, a senior, also placed second in the 100-meter butterfly, swimming the event 7 seconds faster than he did last year. Frobouck took second in the 100-meter backstroke, as well. Heimbouch came close to qualifying in the 50-meter freestyle but came up just short with a time of 28.81 seconds.

“He’ll get it next week,” Broncs head coach Jim Jenkins said.

This weekend is the conference meet at Natrona County High School. It will be the final opportunity for swimmers to qualify for the state meet.

“We will have our work cut out for us,” Jenkins said. “We will just need to take the meet one day at a time and do our absolute best. We will be shooting for season-best times for all athletes, in all events. We’ll be ready to give it our all.”

Broncs crush Nordic races

Last weekend’s Cody Invitational

Senior Hunter Boss won his 100th match in Fremont County.

rington, Natrona County, Cody and Cokeville athletes and placed fifth in the 157-pound division. Now at 105 victories, he’s set his sights on more.

“Right now, [my goal is to] finish strong going into regionals,” Boss said at practice on Jan. 28. “I’d like

to keep my seeding high for that, qualify with a good seed at state, and then hopefully at state make it to a top three.”

In the varsity division of the Ron Thon Memorial, teammate Joel Magana recorded two victories, as

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Creek course Friday during the varsity boys 5-kilometer freestyle interval start race.

high school Nordic meet was moved to Jackson for the Trail Creek Nordic Invitational due to poor racing conditions in Cody, and both Broncs teams clearly relished the schedule change.

In Friday’s 5-kilometer skate race, Tirzah Ellis led the girls’ team, placing second overall with a time of 14 minutes, 49 seconds. Atten Aronowitz took fourth at 15:08.1; Violet Vignaroli finished in 13th; Kylie Fletcher came in 16th; and Sita Yeomans placed 20th as the fifth Jackson athlete to finish in the top 20. Ruby DuRoss, Stori Weenig, Aubrey Maestas and Hanna Gotham also finished in the top half of the 54-athlete field. Ellery Preheim took third in the skate race for the boys at 12:32.0, and Jackson Mayer finished right behind in fourth. Charlie von MaurNewcomb and Karsten Bessonette finished the third-through-sixth place sweep, following in their Broncs teammates’ tracks. Parker Gotham took 19th; Callum Kuszak placed 23rd; Henry Harrison finished in 25th; Angus Spankie came in 28th; Malcolm Welch finished in 33rd; and Zach Baker took 36th.

The next day was a 10K classic race, and the girls placed three in the top 10: Aronowitz took sixth

well. He defeated Lovell and Powell athletes in the 132-pound bracket.

The vast majority of the team competes in the JV bracket. Last weekend, Travis Timboe went 3-1 in his weight class; Wyatt Timboe took fifth with five victories; and Edgar Sosa finished in sixth with three wins.

Another freshman has also been showing promise this year and has competed in varsity matches: Boss’s brother Grayson.

Last weekend he took fourth in 120-pound junior varsity division at the Ron Thon Memorial with a 5-2 record.

This season marks the first time Hunter and Grayson ever have been on a team together, and the two rarely compete against each other in practice. But the connection adds another ring to the elder brother’s full-circle season.

“I think it’s cool to see how there’s a lot more freshmen this year, and it’s building up and becoming bigger,” Hunter Boss said. “There’s a lot more young kids, so I think it’s cool to see how this sport is growing in Jackson a little bit.”

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in 1:40.21, Kandolin placed second again, Lane finished in third, and Patten jumped up to fourth to sweep the top four spots. Parker Chambers finished in seventh. With a combined total of 155 points between the two races, the boys won handily. Annabel Balsa and Emax Hansen were the only two girls to record points. Both finished in 17th place, and Balsa took 19th on day two. The team’s next set of races is Thursday and Friday in Casper. Star Valley handles Broncs

Last week both Jackson Hole High School girls’ and boys’ basketball teams lost to Teton High School of Driggs, Idaho, and conference rival Star Valley. On Jan. 27, Teton beat the boys 58-28 in Idaho. Junior Ethan Hoffman found his groove again with 14 points, and freshman Kai Tanabe cleaned up six rebounds in the game.

in 36:43.6, Ellis placed seventh in 36:46.0, and Fletcher finished in 10th at 38:30.2 DuRoss jumped 10 spots from the previous day into 13th, Yeomans moved up three into 17th, and Tilly Hoath glided to 23rd.

Preheim was the fastest Jackson boy again, taking second at 28:44.5.

Von Maur-Newcomb improved his place in the longer distance race and placed fourth, just ahead of Bessonette in fifth. Mayer finished in seventh.

The next set of races is on Friday and Saturday in Casper.

Alpine boys sweep Cody

In both slalom races during the Alpine skiing Cody Invitational last weekend in Red Lodge, Montana, the Jackson Hole High School boys’ team swept the top three places.

On the first day, Brett Lane won the race with a two-run combined time of 1 minute, 38.84 seconds. Sage Kandolin finished in second, and Teddy Peightal rounded out the top three in third. Parker Patten and Palmer Kline finished in the top 10, as well, in fifth and seventh, respectively.

On the second day of slalom racing, the Broncs added another to the top of the leaderboard. Peightal won

On Friday, the Broncs lost 68-32 to Star Valley, and Ryder Chapman scored 11, Hoffman eight. Cooper Kintzler, Charlie Allen, Calum Meaney, Max White and Tanabe all contributed points, as well, and Tanabe brought down six rebounds again.

Against Teton, the girls lost 51-35, and Zoe Green led all Broncs scorers with 11 points and six rebounds. Ari Fowler recorded eight, and Hayden Block, Jacqueline Stricklin, Maggie Holland, Trinity Green and Harlie Rommel scored, as well.

In a more closely contended game against Star Valley, the Broncs fell 39-33. Folwer put up 19 points, and Stricklin chipped in with seven. Holland recorded 10 rebounds, and Zoe Green had eight on top of three assists and four steals.

Both teams will travel to face Green River on Thursday and will be back home against Rock Springs on Saturday. The girls will tip off at 2 p.m. against Rock Springs, and the boys will follow at 3:30. On Tuesday, the Broncs hit the road again and will play Evanston.

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make their way through the Trail

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Hunter Boss, a senior wrestler at Jackson Hole High School, goes through drills during a practice on Jan. 28. Two weeks ago, Boss earned his 100th career victory during a tournament in Lander.

Stay strong — with the continued warm temperatures, this will be a good week to move toward higherelevation options like Turpin Meadow, Grand Targhee or Togwotee Pass. Some lower-elevation groomed trails like Teton Pines may slow or suspend grooming operations, hopefully only temporarily. There is hope in the forecast. With elevated chances for moisture toward the beginning of next week, the Nordic season may yet flex its muscles!

Events

The Moose Chase, one of the oldest and most revered races in the valley, will be Saturday, Feb. 14. Featuring 1-kilometer, 2.5K, 5K, 10K and 20K options, it has choices for every skill level and, on the whole, is a low-stress beautiful glide through the woods and fi elds at Trail Creek Nordic Center. What a great way to get out on the trails, meet members of the Nordic community, and get an invigorating workout on a Saturday morning.

Tech tip of the week

Be sure to have an extra dry shirt ready in the car to change into immediately after you have worked up a good sweat. While doing a full change with pants is not practical, removing a wet, cold top and replacing it with a warm, dry one makes for a much more pleasant drive home and helps prevent the winter crud from finding you.

Your body’s glycogen window is open for about one hour after your workout. Now is the time to eat that gooey chocolate chip cookie you have craved, or the sweet pie. The sugars ingested within an hour of the workout will help your body recover for the following day.

If it was a hard ski, plan for a nap or additional rest that evening. Ski workouts do not make you stronger and more fit unless they are combined with the appropriate rest and recovery.

Finally, remember to be thankful and have gratitude for this wonderful place in which we live, and for your body which allows you to go out and enjoy it!

— Scott Horn, Nordic master Nordic centers

Turpin Meadow Ranch

This will be a particularly excellent time to visit Turpin Meadow, with an excellent snow base keeping it in the best condition in the valley, as many other trails slow or stop grooming entirely. Especially with a big race at Trail Creek this week, there has never been a better time to make the drive. Turpin Meadow has every amenity one could ask for, including rentals, tours, guides, lessons, food, even an overnight stay for a romantic getaway.

Groomed daily. Trail pass $25 or $15 for youth. For current trail conditions check the live webcam at TurpinMeadowRanch.com/web-cam.

Trail Creek Ranch

Trail Creek has begun a reduced grooming schedule in order to preserve every last bit of snow they have. When grooming does take place, trails should be more than excellent, the Husky doing a

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magnificent job.

This weekend has two days of Intermountain Division races. Avoid any temptation to even think about skiing on the race course. Woods trails will be accessible from near the Old Pass Road trailhead and, though ungroomed for that timeframe, should remain quite skiable.

Groomed daily. Trail pass $20. Pay online, or leave cash or check in the box by the cabin.

Teton Pines

Conditions are getting a bit sketchy at Teton Pines. Skiing likely will continue to be available, but conditions may degrade in quality. Morning skate skiing while the trails are still solid should provide the best experience. Hopefully there will be enough snow atop the golf course to keep grooming proceeding safely.

Groomed daily as snow permits. Trail pass $23.

Grand Targhee

Public trails

Grand Teton National Park

Grand Teton National Park remains in fine condition at the start of the week, with its more northerly locale blessed with cooler temperatures and deeper snowpack. The groomed trail from Taggart to Signal will be absolutely beautiful this week, with clear skies and warm temperatures. Skaters in particular may benefit from heading out in the morning while the trail remains delightfully firm.

Grand Targhee is a premier location for Nordic this week and perhaps longer. Due to its high location and solid snowpack — including three inches of surprise snow last week — it likely has the best groomed trails in the area. Notably, these trails are quite hilly so may not be for all users. For those who enjoy that sort of thing; however, they will be quite fun.

Trail pass $25 a day. Groomed Tuesdays, Thursdays and weekends. Dog passes available for $5 per day or $50 for the season.

Skiing is free, but access to groomed areas requires a park pass.

Deception Creek at Togwotee Pass

It feels a bit strange to be recommending Deception Creek in February, but this week it may be some of the better free groomed skiing available. It is a bit of a drive to Togwotee Pass, but the kind people of Dubois groom this trail fairly regularly, and it is among the highest elevation trails in the area, making it a great place to ski.

Togwotee Pass in general also is a great place to explore off trail. With thinner snow this year, breaking trail is very doable even for intermediate or below skiers. Instinct can be to stick to horrible and icy trails, but setting a new track can be glorious — not just for the leader, but for everyone following behind.

Tip for the parents: Get your children to burn off that excess energy

breaking trail! Just make sure to have some fun downhills and great snacks along the way for positive reinforcement.

Teton Valley trails

Teton Canyon

Teton Canyon is looking remarkably good. With beautiful views of the Teton Range and gentle terrain, this is a great place to get your skis beneath you.

Groomed Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Please remember to pick up after your pooches.

Southern Valley

A few inches of fresh powder freshened up Southern Valley nicely over the past week. Warm afternoon temperatures should make these trails pleasantly soft and make the steeper downhills much more pleasant for the more casual skier. This will be a great week to check out Southern Valley.

Be sure to support the grooming of this trail and others by purchasing a Teton Valley Trails and Pathways trail sticker, and be part of an awesome group.

Alta Track and Teton Reserve

These trails were benefi ciaries of a very welcome 3-4 inches of fresh snow over the past week, allowing for some major improvement. Colder weather will help them remain in relatively good condition. Otherwise, they may start to struggle again, so be sure to check the grooming page to see what it will be.

These trails and more can be found online at JHNordic.com/ trails. Find something new, or blaze your own trail!

— Gannett Swan

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Beautiful trails can be found this week in Grand Teton National Park.

U16 girls champions once more

For the second time in three years, the U16 girls’ Moose hockey team reigns supreme over the West. Last weekend in Denver the team went undefeated during the championship tournament for the Western Girls Hockey League and capped its title run with a 4-2 victory over the Colorado 14ers.

In 2023, the Moose won the league’s U14 division under the guidance of head coach Paige Asbell, and last winter they lost in the finals to the Utah Grizzlies with head coach T.J. Thomas. This winter Thomas returned with assistants Natalie Smith and Emma Hughes, and the team went 15-1 in the regular season.

On Friday, the Jackson girls — or, really just one girl — beat the Colorado Springs Tigers 3-1, as Dani Fagan scored all three of the team’s goals. The Moose put up 49 shots, and goaltender Peyton Earl got the win. Later, the Moose won 4-0 over the Arizona Kachinas, and Fagan had two. Josie Kramer and Annika Berge also scored one each, and Matilda Turley booked a 17save shutout in net.

The next day, Jackson beat the Coeur d’Alene Thunder 2-1 and the Utah Grizzlies 6-2. Berge and Lincoln Merritt scored in the second period after going down 1-0 to the Thunder, and the Moose scored four straight goals after facing a 2-1 deficit at the conclusion of the first period against the Grizzlies. Berge scored one in the first, Phoenix Phipps netted two in the second, Kramer one, and Fagan with another two. Earl got the win in both games.

On the final day of the championship tournament, the Moose beat Colorado Springs 3-1 again behind goals from Fagan, Berge and Kramer. The victory propelled them to the championship where they defeated the 14ers 4-2.

Jackson went down 2-1 early in the second period after Payton Miles tied the game 1-1 in the first. Kramer then scored two unanswered, and Fiona Morgan sealed the deal in the third. Earl saved 36 shots.

In six games, Fagan scored eight goals and recorded five assists. Lincoln Merritt had a team-high six assists, and sister Hadley Merritt had four. Kramer netted five goals, Berge had four.

Top 10 racers after stage four

1. Anny Malo 8:14:09

2. Remy Coste 8:21:18

3. Bruce Magnusson 8:36:34

4. Alix Crittenden 8:50:35

5. Stéphane Roy 8:54:49

6. Ryan Beaber 8:55:45

7. Liam Conner 9:01:06

8. Tristen Rivest 9:02:00

9. Austin Forney 9:14:19

10. Mike Bestgen 9:21:00

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place after the fourth stage. She is over seven minutes ahead of Remy Coste, a Frenchman now living in Salcha, Alaska, who won his rookie Stage Stop in 2024 and did not compete last year.

Crittenden is competitive and wants to win, but her priority is to take care of the dogs and succeed on her own terms.

“I just want to have stronger finishes and f aster times than we’ve had in the past,” she said.

This year’s fast course has its downsides, making it more difficult to brake and making it paramount to maintain control of the dogs. But nobody has had any issues out on the trail yet, Carter said. Because of the conditions, Crittenden held her dogs back during stage three to avoid injuries.

Halfway throug h the seven stages the races within the race begin, said Stage Stop director Dan Carter. Coste and Malo are jockeying for first. Crittenden, Roy and racer Rya n Beaber are battling to unseat longtime Stage Stop veteran Magnusson for third place.

The third through sixth place teams are all experienced and have quality dogs and training programs. Carter expects to see the most movement in those standings in the coming stages.

Contact Christina MacIntosh at 307-732-5911 or environmental@ jhnewsandguide.com.

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Earl went 5-0 in net with a 1.45 goals against average.

Moose bombard Seahawks

The Senior A Moose hockey team swept the Boston Seahawks out of Snow King Sports and Events Center last weekend with a thrilling 6-5 victory on Friday and a not-so-thrilling 13-3 win on Saturday.

The Seahawks held a 5-3 lead headed into the third period of Friday night’s game, but the Moose charged back with three unanswered goals. The game winner from Ry Dukes left the Seahawks bench in shock, infuriated and out of breath, sucking air out of oxygen cans.

Former Jackson Hole Grizzlies forward, original Moose team member, and current Million Dollar Cowboy Bar bartender Dustin Stolp returned to the ice with the team for the first time in 13 years on Friday, and in his first shift back he found himself in a familiar spot: the penalty box. This time, instead of fighting, as he was known to do in the early to late 2000s, it was for tripping. Stolp holds the Moose’s all-time record for penalty minutes.

The next night, if the Boston team wasn’t already out of gas the night before, they completely ran out on Saturday. The Moose went ahead by several goals in the first, and after the second period the score was 8-2. The Moose scored five more and won 13-3.

Zach Keating scored four goals, Joe Zelenka had three, Jake Leitner and Dawson Speth netted two each, and James Doyle and Ramsey Brame recorded one each. Stolp found his way onto the scoresheet with an assist.

The Moose are now 10-8 on the season and will play again in two weeks against the Fire Department of New York at Snow King Sports and Events Center.

Freeriders fly at JHMR

Teton County freeriders landed on almost every podium at last weekend’s IFSA junior 3-star event at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. Because three-star events are the top junior competitions, athletes from around the country were in attendance to try their skill and luck in Toilet Bowl and Casper Bowl

on Rendezvous Mountain.

In the U19 ski men’s division, which had 80 athletes in it, Jackson Hole Ski and Snowboard Club’s Nico Santelices placed second with a score of 68.30. In the women’s division, Ava Evans from Grand Targhee took third with 60.83. Another Targhee athlete, Conley Rockefeller, placed third in the U19 snowboard men’s group.

At the U15 level, Landon Glover — who used to compete with Targhee but now skis as an independent — placed the highest among all Teton County athletes in the ski men’s division. With a score of 63.70, he placed fourth, less than a point away from the podium.

Alexander Crenshaw from the Ski Club won the U15 snowboard men’s division at 56.86, as did Rylee Watson from Targhee in the U15 ski women’s category with a score of 65.27. Arah Rockefeller from Targhee placed third among U15 snowboard women.

See full results on page 12C.

Downhill open for all

Registration is now live for the Jackson Hole Ski and Snowboard Club’s annual community downhill race. The 2026 Jackson Hole Downhill will take place March 14 and 15 at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, and competitors are able sign up for amateur, fat and baggy, snowboard or telemark races on Saturday. On Sunday, there will be a team race, an individual pro race and a final junior race after one run the day before.

Deadline to enter is 5 p.m. March 13. Prices are discounted prior to midnight, March 1. For more information, visit SkiReg. com/jackson-hole-downhill, or email Jesse Knori at jknori@ jhskiclub.org.

— Kyle Leverone

DEADLINES

Sports Briefs must be submitted to the News&Guide by noon on Monday. Email sports@jhnewsandguide.com, call 733-2047 or stop by the office at 1225 Maple Way.

CHARLIE NICK / NEWS&GUIDE

Eithan Hernandez, 6, of Jackson, high-fives Stage Stop musher, Remi Coste, during the Stage Stop race start. Families from all over the valley came to witness and enthusiastically cheer for the teams as they prepare to take on the first stage of the race.

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Spectators cheer on musher Sean Hildreth, as he readies to cross the start line on Friday. This family event brings community members from across the region to gather in Jackson’s Town Square and witness the start of the race.

CHARLIE NICK / NEWS&GUIDE

Sled dogs wait in anticipation prior to race start in Town Square on Friday. The seven-stage race welcomed 18 mushers to race through BridgerTeton, and Shoshone National Forests, competing for the Stage Stop title.

Back Row: Terry Bernatis, Hunter Boss, Kevin Preza, Greyson Boss, Isaac Goralski, Coach Bell & Genevieve Middle Row: Afton Kunsman, Joel Magana, Edgar Sosa, David Perez, Diana Trejo, Ellie Vasquez, Dana Castro, Front Row: Josh Garcia, Nate Paulson, Austin Morillon, Wyatt Timboe, Sam Perry, Travis Timboe, Fernando Rivera

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Defending Queen Ana Eyssimont will return to the field, alongside fourtime Olympic athlete Sarka Pancochova, who won the women’s snowboard division last year. Other former Olympians include Daniel Bacher and Sven Thorgren, who also is an eight-time X Games medalist.

Fan favorite, former Queen and multiple-time People’s Choice Award winner Veronica Paulsen will not compete this year but will host Jackson Hole Mountain Resort’s livestream coverage of the event with Andrew Whiteford, Randy Strand and Jody Wachniak.The resort has released a full roster of competitors.

“...the forecast is showing a storm cycle during the event window that should set up Corbet’s for another incredible year of competition.”

— Andriana Rogers

JHMR COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER

The resort has separate awards for men and women skiers and snowboarders. But there is still only one King and one Queen, voted on by the competitors themselves.

Athletes will compete for shares of the total $50,000 prize pot. Firstplace finishers in each category will win $5,000. Second will earn $3,000, and third place will take home $2,000. The highest-scoring male and female athletes overall, regardless of discipline, will each earn a $5,000 bonus and be crowned the King and Queen of Corbet’s. Fans can watch the competition in person from the Tensleep bowl or remote via the webcam (see https://tinyurl.com/ CorbetWebcam). Skiers and snowboarders can access the spectator area from the top of the Sublette Lift or by skiing down the East Ridge Traverse from the top of the Aerial Tram. Spectators can’t watch from the top of the couloir.

Contact Charley Sutherland at 307-7327066 or county@jhnewsandguide.com.

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Snow King adds $20 gondola fee

Community opinion split on the extra cost to improve gondola service.

MBy Jasmine Hall STATE GOVERNMENT REPORTER

usic fans are split on a gon dola access fee for the King Concerts series, which Snow King Mountain officials say is neces sary to purchase eight more gondola cabins and improve the capacity of the lift, speeding wait times.

Last week, ahead of the sale date for the popular summer concert se ries, resort officials announced there would be an additional $20 gondola fee on top of ticket prices for every one but season passholders.

The new cabins will increase “upload and download capacity by nearly 20%,” Snow King officials said in response to complaints about long wait times, according to an email sent out Jan. 28. Crowds were often waiting more than an hour in line to download after shows wrapped up last summer.

This change came as a surprise to many Jackson residents who look forward to the concert series that began in 2022. Some told the News&Guide that it was a “money grab” and a burden for locals, while others said it was a reasonable fee in order to get people up and down the mountain faster.

“While venue capacity will re main capped at 2,500 guests, this investment will significantly speed up download times at the end of the night and improve the overall concert experience,” Snow King said in the email, but there is no opt-out option for hikers. “It applies regardless of whether you plan to ride the gondola or hike.”

Trampled by Turtles performs in 2023 during Snow King Mountain Resort’s summer concert

Surprise and more are set to perform this year.

If a $20 fee were added to every ticket for the 18 shows announced so far, the resort would bring in $900,000, based on the 2,500-person cap.

However, the fee is excluded for 2026-27 Snow King Mountain season passholders with the full, unlimited plan. It isn’t waived for every ticket if the passholder buys more than one, only if eligible family members or friends also bought a pass.

An unlimited adult season pass for

In December, enplanements at Jackson Hole Airport totaled 32,453, 4.0% more than the number of passengers who enplaned a commercial airline flight in December 2024. December 2025’s enplanement figure made that month the second-busiest December in airport history, trailing only December 2021 (and then only by a couple of hundred passengers). More strikingly, December’s enplanement count meant that, for the third year in a row, enplanement counts were up at Jackson Hole Airport for 11 of each year’s 12 months. As a result of this almost-continuous growth, during the 2025 calendar year enplanements totaled 580,702, a 10.1% increase over the previous 12 months.

Source: Jackson Hole Airport

the upcoming year is $575 before tax and a family pass starts at $1,350.

Snow King Mountain Resort General Manager Ryan Stanley didn’t answer multiple requests for comment, including questions about an opt-out option for hikers, if the entire fee goes toward purchasing new

MARKET WATCH

By Jonathan Schechter

In December, Grand Teton’s recreational visitation total was 53,905, a sizable 31.6% more than the number visiting in December 2024.

Historically, December vies with November in the race for Grand Teton’s least-visited month. Nonetheless, December 2025 visitation total was the park’s second-busiest December ever, trailing only the COVID-anomalous 2020.

During the calendar year 2025, 3,788,434 people paid a recreational visit to Grand Teton, 4.4% more than visited during 2024. While visitation is not as bonkers as during the height of the pandemic, for each of the last 10 months it has been higher than in the same month in 2024.

Source: Grand Teton National Park

gondola cabins and how much they cost, how many season passholders bought tickets this week and how many people bought season passes in the past five days.

There were many residents who were frustrated with the new fee.

In December, Yellowstone National Park’s recreational visitation count totaled 34,523, 13.5% higher than December 2024’s figure.

Historically, December is Yellowstone’s secondleast visited month. For December, though, 2025’s count was historically quite high, trailing only 2021 and 2023.

During calendar 2025, 4,763,164 people paid a recreational visit to Yellowstone, 0.3% more than during the previous year. This was the park’s second-highest figure ever, trailing only 2021’s 4.86 million.

Source: Yellowstone National Park

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series. Modest Mouse, De La Soul, Rainbow Kitten

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The News&G uide spoke to multiple residents who said it was a “money grab” in response to a bad ski season and led them to purchase fewer concert tickets.

“I personally think the $20 gondola fee feels excessively overpriced, especially when added on top of already inflated concert prices,” Cooper Barbour, a Teton County resident, said. “With rising ticket costs, fees and concessions, this kind of charge comes across as price gouging rather than added value.”

He said it “reinforces the sense that the experience is being mon-

etized at every possible turn.”

Barbour was also under the impression the tickets were more expensive this year before the $20 gondola fee. He said both factors affected how many concerts he planned to attend this summer.

As someone who was very excited about the concert series, he said the fee makes live events less accessible and enjoyable, especially for locals.

Tristan Weisz, a Jackson resident who waited in line in person to get tickets when the Snow King ticket website glitc hed on opening day, wants fee reform. He recommended that locals should be able to show a Wyoming ID and have the fee waived.

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“If you live in town, I feel like you should be able to get up the gondola for free,” he said.

He said if the resort was trying to pay for all of its renovations and “make this the new Red Rocks,” a renowned outdoor amphitheater outside of Denver, then tourists should be taxed.

There were a handful of other residents in Teton County who told the News&Guide the $20 fee was worth it and not unreasonable.

One person said the resort listened to their complaints about long wait lines and it was good to take action to make getting to and from the venue smoother. Another said Snow King Mountain is being transparent

about the fees and where the money is going, which is better than raising prices without explanation.

Supporters also emphasized that there is other free music across the community to take advantage of if they don’t want to pay extra for a Snow King ticket.

Snow King shared a similar outlook in its email on the topic.

“After months of exploring different options, this approach allows us to both improve the overall concert experience and provide meaningful value to our Season Pass holders,” the resort said.

Contact Jasmine Hall at 307-7327063 or state@jhnewsandguide.com.

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WhatYou'llDo: Leaddailyoperations,supportourincredibleteam, andhelpensureeveryguesthasanexceptionalexperience.You'llworkcloselywiththeFounderon strategyandgrowth,fosterapositive,inclusive teamculture,&keepourmission,conservation,education,connectiontoplace,atthecenterofitall.

WhatYouBring: Experienceintourism,guiding,oroutdoored; strongleadership&communicationskills;&passion forpubliclands,wildlife,&people.You'restrategic, hands-on,collaborative,&readytogrowwithus.

Benefits: Competitivesalary(DOE) Healthinsurance&paidtimeoff Opportunitiesforprofessionaldevelopment Workwithapurpose-driventeaminoneofthemost iconicecosystemsonEarth

ToApply: Sendyourresumeandcoverletterto Taylor@jhecotouradventures.com.WeareacceptingapplicationsuntilFebruary9th.Applicationswill beprocessedonarollingbasis.Ifyoudon'thear fromuswithintwoweeksofapplying,we'vedecided it'snottherightfitatthistime,&wetrulyappreciate yourinterestinETA.

HiringElectricians

Wellestablished,local contractorlookingforexperiencedelectricians. Greatworkenvironment, flexibility.Benefitpackage withPTO,healthinsurance,Retirementplanw/ companymatch.7332700

GeneralManager PositionSeekingeffective teamleaderwhothrives indynamicenvironment tosupportourstaffand operationsandtoengagethelocalJackson community.

CompetitivePay

Benefitsincludehealth insurance,PTO,seasonalbonus,skipass Emailresumeto: howdy@handfirepizza.c om

CafeJackson Hole JoinourteamatCafé JH!We'rehiringexperiencedbaristasforyearroundpositions Emailresumeto mike@cafejh.com

NowHiring: Sales Associate Joinourfinejewelry andartgallery Musthaveprovensales experienceand excellentcustomer serviceskills. Weoffercompetitive payandbenefits,housingavailable. 401k,healthinsurance, PTO

Applytoday: 3076901521 Nativejh@gmail.com

ArchitecturalDesigners Wanted!

NorthworksArchitectsisseekinganArchitectural DesignerforourJackson,WYoffice.Weareopen toallexperiencelevels,withastrongpreferencefor candidateswithtechnicalexperienceonhigh-end residentialprojects. Idealcandidateshaveadegreefromanaccredited university,strongdesignanddocumentationskills, andexperiencesupportingprojectsthroughdesign andconstructionphases.ProficiencywithdocumentationsoftwarelikeRevitandAutoCAD,and3DrenderingtoolssuchasEnscapeandLumionispreferred. Pleasesubmityourresumeandworksamplesto employment@nwks.com.Wewillreachoutifyour qualificationsalign.

At FDRG, we believe hospitality is more than a job— it’s a way to connect, take care of people, and hav a damn good time doing it. Come join our excellent team of kind, curious leaders who love great food, thrive in fast­paced environments, and bring good vibes to every shift. Benefits include 50% insurance coverage, vacation pay, 401k match, F&B discounts, and continuing education opportunities. Sound Reach out to kate@jhfinedining.com NOW General

We are now hiring!!! Bell Staff Houskeeping Housmen Executive Housekeeper Banquet Supervisor F/T or P/T Front Desk Agent P/T Night Audit ­ Friday & Saturday Required

Experience a fun and fast paced environment along with all the benefits of our new ownership. Medical, dental and vision benefits

Front desk staff commissions (unlimited potential)

Generous, gifted PTO plan

Employer 401k contributions

Shared ski pass or discounted purchase

Travel and shopping discounts

Please stop by to drop off an application or e­mail liz@lodgejh.com

HELP WANTED HELP WANTED

Currently Seeking: Full Time Maintenance Engineer

Please send resume to jpeters@virginianlodge.com or stop by 750 W Broadway, Jackson, WY to apply in person

InteriorDesigner (2Openings)-Driggs,ID NorthworksArchitectsisseekingtwoInterior DesignerstojoinourDriggsoffice.Weareopento allexperiencelevels,withastrongpreferencefor candidateswithtechnicalexperienceonhigh-end residentialprojects.Idealcandidateshaveastrong designeye,soliddocumentationskills,andtheabilitytocollaboratewitharchitectsandprojectteams acrossthecountry. Pleasesubmitresumeandworksamplesto employment@nwks.com.Wewillreachoutifyour qualificationsalign.

Welcome to your new Career with Teton County! PARKS DIVISION OPENING

If you love working outdoors and want to make a difference in the community, the Parks Division is looking for the right candidate to join our team!

We are hiring a Grounds Maintenance Technician $26.18 ­ $29.46 per hour DOE

This position will clean and maintain grounds, restrooms and facilities; paints, builds and installs fencing, rakes leaves, mows turf, removes snow from pathways and sidewalks, and maintains outdoor ice rinks. Collects litter from grounds and facilities including emptying trash receptacles. Performs preventative maintenance on tools & equipment as well as purchasing. Conducts basic electrical, mechanical, plumbing maintenance & repair; operates tractors, mowers, vehicles and various light equipment. Hours are 7am to 3:30pm during the summer season and 5am to 1:30pm during the winter months.

Excellent Benefits Package includes: 3 weeks paid vacation the first year, sick time & 32 wellness hours annually, Employer paid medical, dental, and vision the 1st of the month after hire date. Ski pass & Start bus pass discounts, generous contribution to the Wyoming Retirement System and much more!

For question email: hr@tetoncountywy.gov or call (307)732­8489

TO APPLY – VISIT: http://www.tetoncountywy.gov/jobs

Teton County is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicant will be required to pass a criminal background.

This role will oversee HR functions, encompassing employee relations and benefits administration, while also and managing office policies and Position requires a proactive individual with excellent organizational skills, a strong as well as proficiency in payroll

Full­time, year­round position offers excellent salary, paid vacation, ski pass privileges, Please submit résumé to

POLICE OFFICERS

Lateral or Entry Level Police Officers, Jackson WY. Hiring Salary Entry $83,600. Hiring Range Lateral $85 ­ $90K DOQ, full benefits. Up to $400/mo Spanish fluency. $15,000 signing/stay bonus. Advancement program, take home car, below market rental housing options available. Testing March 9 & 10 in Jackson. Up to $350 travel reimbursement for testing in Jackson and full reimbursement of reasonable expenses for applicants accepting a job offer.

For a complete ad/job description and to apply, visit: www.jacksonwy.gov/jobs Application Deadline: March 2, 2026 at 12:00 PM Interviews may be conducted and Selections Made Prior to Deadline.

Drug Free Workplace /Substance Abuse Testing/ Equal Opportunity Employer

CAPCServices,LLCisapremieradministration servicefirmspecializedintheestablishmentand administrationofPrivateTrustCompanies("PTCs") WeareseekinganexperiencedTrustOfficerto manageaportfolioofPTCs,trustsandrelatedentities,whileservingasatrustedadvisortoclientsand theirprofessionalteams.Thisroleoffersexposure tosophisticatedfiduciarystructuresandacollaborative,client-focusedenvironment.

KeyQualifications:

-STEP,CTFA,orequivalentprofessionalfiduciary qualificationpreferred

-3-5yearsoftrustorfiduciaryadministrationexperience

-Strongknowledgeoftrustlaw,governance,and compliance

-Excellentcommunicationskillsandattentiontodetail WhyCAPCServices

-Competitivecompensationandbenefits

-Professionaldevelopmentandcontinuingeducation

-Supportive,high-caliberworkenvironment -Commitmenttowork-lifebalance

Pleasesendcoverletterandresumeto lori@capcservices.com

LightDuty DrivernoCDLrequired,FullCoverage HealthInsurance,paywillbebasedonexperience. Wewilltraintherightperson.Musthaveaclean drivingrecord.Paywillincreaserapidlywithtraining andambition.Callourdispatchline8am-4pmtoinquireorsendresumetoemailprovided.(307)7338697,tow@ronstowingjh.com

PersonalInsurance AccountManager Managepersonalinsuranceaccounts,prepare quotes,respondtoclientinquiries,andmaintainpolicyaccuracy.You'llbethekeypoint-of-contactfor clientsandcarriers.

CALL:307-228-6047Leaveyourname,phone number,andbriefworkexperience ONLINE:hubinternational.com/careers,searchfor JacksonHole,selecttheAccountManagerposition.

ResidentialConstruction SuperintendentExperiencedSuperintendentneededtooverseedailyonsiteresidentialconstruction.Responsibilitiesinclude supervisingtrades,enforcingsafetyandquality standards,maintainingcleanjobsites,providing Procoreupdates,resolvingfieldissues,andcoordinatingwiththeProjectManagertokeepprojectson schedule.

Requirements:5+yearsresidentialconstructionexperience,strongknowledgeofcodesandplans,and hands-onleadership.

Competitivepay,steadywork,andateam-focused environment.apply@cbsllcconstruction.com

Join the Housing Dept. Team!

We are hiring a Housing Compliance Specialist to join our team! Come make a difference in your community! We offer competitive pay, great benefits, and a positive working environment. This position is open until filled.

Visit our website, www.tetoncountywy.gov/jobs, to read the job description and apply!

Teton County is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to a multicultural environment and strongly encourage applications from women, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities.

Golf Retail Assistant

$25 ­ $28 per Hour

The region’s premier private club is seeking a Golf Retail Assistant for the summer of 2026. Will work directly with Merchandiser to graciously assist members and guests in our daily operations. Additionally, will manage the cleanliness of the shop, maintain an organized inventory, make sales, book tee times, create and maintain visual displays and fulfill general member requests. Of primary importance is excellent member­service and team attitude.

Benefits include world class recreational benefits including golf privileges and the potential for subsidized employee housing.

careers@shootingstarjh.com www.shootingstarjh.com/careers

TheBank ofJackson HoleiscurrentlyseekingexperiencedcandidatetofillaMortgage BankerIopportunityin ourJacksonMainBankingCenter.

BenefitsInclude -CompetitivePay -PaidTimeOff-Sick andVacation -401KSavingsPlan -HealthInsurance -MedicalInsurance -DentalandVisionInsurance -TuitionReimbursement -AssociateStockPurchasePlan Forpositiondetailsand toapply,pleasevisit www.bojh.com

LitigationParalegal Seekingcivillitigation paralegalwithatleast3 yearsoflegalexperience toassistattorneyswithall aspectsoffileandcase management,aswellas someofficeadministration.Responsibilitiesassociatedwiththisfull-time positionincludee-filing, docketing,calendaring, draftingcorrespondence andmotions,calendar management,making travelarrangements,and otherdutiesasassigned byattorneys.Thenecessaryskillsetrequires competencyinWord,Excel,Outlook;excellent communicationskillsand excellentorganizational skills.Strictattentionto detail,aprofessionaldemeanor,andastrong workethicareessential. erin.myers@omtrial.com

OfficeManager Dave HansenWhitewateris lookingforamotivated, hardworking,andfunindividualwithcustomer serviceexperienceto joinourteamforthe summer! Employmentcommitmentwouldbearound 4/15-10/15.Thisisafull timepostionthatwould includeweekendsand someeveningshifts. Dutiesmayincludebut notlimitedto:Scheduling,reservations,trainingandsupervisingofficestaff,generaloffice duties,andsomemarketingtasks.Paywould beaDOEwithanend oftheseasonbonus. Locallyownedcompany withreallyfunatmosphereandcoworkers. Emailresumeto: info@davehansenwhite water.com

We'reHiring! Withthe upcomingopeningof ournewfacilityat105 Mercill,JHCMisgrowingourcommunityimpact-increasedprogramming,ReggioEmiliainspiredworkshops, andextraordinaryexhibitsdesignedtoignite everykid'spotential throughcreativity,learningandplay.Weare lookingforenergetic, passionateandcreative individualstojoinour team(part-timeorfulltime): -GuestServices -EventsCoordinator -AmeriCorps Visitjhcm.org/careers

TrustOfficer

ASAP Exp. Adult Female in home caregiver 4 70+ F resident. Afton, WY. Exchange 4 room & board. Msg/Txt 323­9794653

Hiring:Project Architect We'reseekingan experiencedSD/PAto helpleadthetechnical developmentofelevatedprojectsinJackson.

WhatYou'llDo: Leadprojects,coordinateconsultants,and carrydesignthrough documentation,QA/QC, andconstruction. WhyYou'llLoveItHere: Health&dentalinsurance,PTO,retirement matching,plusafun, supportiveteamculture. Sendportfolioandresumetodep@gydearch itects.com.

Retailand Ecommerce ServiceExpert Supportboththeshowroomande-commerce operationswithastrong emphasisononlineordermanagement,Servingasaprimarypointof contactforshowroom, website,andemailinquiries.LeaderinCustomerService,Front Desk&SalesSupport. Teammemberwillbe responsibleforCRM, ProductData,Systems Management&Invoice Upkeep

Enjoybeingpartofan enthusiasticteamworkinginafast-pacedenvironment.

FullTime|Holiday Bonus|Benefits(307) 733-0274Hello@elevat edliving.design

FullTime NannyLocal familyseekingexperienced,engaged,nanny. M-Th,8am-5pm.Two youngchildren.$30$35+hr.(307)690-7423 info@jacksonholenanni es.com

FT/YR Line Cook Weekends needed 6:30am ­ 4pm Hourly + Tips gm@picnicjh.com

ExperiencedBike Mechanic Quality-focused shop&strongteamculture.4dayworkweek. Cutthecommutewith shiftsavailableinJackson&Victor.Benefits, tips,commission. wheelwranglers.comfor moreinfo&application.

6week NannyStarting ASAPthroughmid March.2-7daysa week,yourchoice.9am -2pm.1yearoldin Jackson(307)690-7423 info@jacksonholenanni es.com Part Time

PersonalTrainers/Pilates InstructorsExcel PhysicalTherapyDriggs islookingforpersonal trainersand/orpilatesinstructorstorentspacein ourbeautifulnewclinic. Pleasecalloremailwith interest.(307)734-9129 excelptjackson@gmail.co m

PERSONALS

Get Free Email Notifications on routinely searched public notices, save search criteria, print multiple notices simultaneously, or receive automatic search results daily at wyopublicnotices.com. Monitor government actions like hearings, meetings, minutes, budgets, taxes, bids, elections, zoning, foreclosures and more in print and online published by your community newspaper, and Search For Free online at wyopublicnotices.com.

CommunicationsCoordinator

Thispositionwillexecutetheday-to-daystorytelling andoutreacheffortsthathighlightourorganization's impact.YouwillplayakeyroleincraftingcompellingcontenttoengageGrandTetonNational Parkvisitorsandfosteradeeperconnectiontothe stewardshipofoursurroundingpubliclands. Viewthefullpositiondescriptionat www.grandtetonassociation.org/employment.

PERSONALS

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We buy 8,000 cars a week. Sell your old, busted or junk car with no hoops, haggles or headaches. Sell your car to Peddle. Easy three step process. Instant offer. Free pickup. Fast payment. Call 1­877­5820070

BUSINESS

For Sale

TurnkeyDowntown JacksonBusinessFor SaleInventoryAvailable atDiscountuntil2/28307-200-1090-@180N. CenterSt#3FSBO

PETS

SPORTS DaisyDoodle Pup LASTGIRL!Bichon Frise/ShihTzuandpoodle.Vetcheck/1st shots,starterpack.Non -shedding.8-10lbs. Readynow. esthernellis@gmail.com

Ski Equipment

Ski Equipment Sale

• Stockli skis­Model GX, SX, Ax (like new) 170cm • Head skis­E Race Pro, E Speed pro, E Speed (like new) 170 cm. • K2 Mindbender used 1 day. 175 cm

Ski boots

• Head boots­ WCR4, Raptor 120 Like new size 26.5• Atomic bootsRedster TI, CS, STI (all new) 26.5, 22.5 cm.

• Kids Equipmentoutgrown/like new.

• Rossignol Hero Skis110 and 120 cm (used 5 days) • Head Supershape 117 cm. New

• Head Raptor boots new 22.5 size.

Kids ski clothes, snow boots, gloves, misc. Adult ski clothesparkas, ski pants. Call Rick 208­390­2319 to schedule. Sale February 7 at house (9 am ­3 pm) 1008 Miller Ranch Rd (off of ski Hill Road to Targhee) Driggs

REAL ESTATE

We Buy Houses for Cash As Is! No repairs. No fuss. Any condition. Easy three step process: Call, get cash offer and get paid. Get your fair cash offer today by calling Liz Buys Houses: 1­866­759­0710. Houses

Staff Engineer –Spearfish, SD. Responsible for CAD activities, engineering support (office/field), administering the city’s floodplain ordinance. Starting range. PE $96,512.00, FE $87,422.40 www.cityof spearfish.com

Land for Sale

FSBO 1.18 ac in town, scenic, sunny, secluded, home garage & more. 1.6 mil. OBO 307­413­2167

RENTALS

Apartments & Condos

LuxuryPenthouse Apt 2BD,2BA,1600SF,2 Balconies,Recently Renovated;80"TV;2 parkingspaces;2Blks toTownSq;Available Feb,7250/mofurnished 8173239656

MidtownJackson 3BR/2BAtownhouse. Availnowthrumid June.Clean,furnished, 2parkingspots,NS/NP. Mostutilitiesincluded.

$5,100(307)705-9495 wade525546@ gmail.com

2Story, 2BD,2BA Condo1012sqft.Living room,loftspace.Washer/dryer,2parking spots,Nosmoking,No pets.Utilitiesincluded $3,750/mon.Contact: (307)413-7773 cobyslarsen@gmail.co m

2 Bed 1 Bath 880 SFunfurnished AV. 12/1/25. In town on flat creek, $3,750/mo, 1 yr. lease. W/D, DW, 2 parking spaces. Inquiries to info@apexjackson.com 307­732­0943

Victor2BR/2BA Apt Ground-floor,modern unitwithW/D,fireplace, granitetops,vaulted ceilings.DogOK.Avail now,1stmonthfree! $2,195(208)354-2460 cj@pmigrandtetons.com

LIVE in Alpine. NEW Apts. In floor heat. Car charger. 1, 2, 3 beds/ bath @ 19, 25 & 3500/mth 307413JADE 289sawmillroad@gmail. com

2BR/2BAApartment forRentinVictor,ID Spacioustwo-bedroom, two-bathapartmentwith modernfinishesand convenientamenities. Includesin-unitlaundry, AnytimeFitnessmembership,ski/biketuning shop,andmore.Dogs andcatsallowed.LocatedinVictorwithconvenientaccessoverthe pass.$2,750/mo.Call 208-787-4000toscheduleatour.

Luxury 1 Bed / 1 Bath Unit

Available June 1st –1 bedroom / 1 bathroom unit located less than 2 blocks from the Town Square. Spacious open floor plan with approx. 1,240 sq ft of living space and private 580 sq ft terrace Onsite parking and elevator with controlled access No smoking | No pets

1­year minimum lease $4,800 / month Inquiries: jhwyrealestate@gmail.com

1 bedroom, 1 bath unfurnished apartment in town with washer and dryer Available now, $2,600 a month No pets, No Smoking

Located in East Jackson please email rentals@gtpmjh.com or call Tina Korpi, Broker for more information

PrimeLocation! Downtown2BR/1BathStand AloneUnit,Stainless SteelAppliances,LuxVin floors,washer/dryerin unit.$4,300permonth,F/ L/D,Nosmoking,Pets negotiable,Unbeatable locationstepsfromOrangeTheory,Centerof theArtsandBrewPub. Guesthousejacksonhole @gmail.comAvailable April1orMay1.

Commercial

WilsonOffice Space WalktoWilson,1100SF, OffSTParking,NNN 5355law@gmail.com

OfficeSpace -Aspens, TetonPines,Wilson200650sqft-Contact assetmaintenancejh@gm ail.com

HairSalon Hairsalon spaceforlease.1mile southoftown.Perfect for1or2chairs. VA@hoteljackson.com

CommercialSpace 750sq.ft.commercial space.1blockfrom TownSquareonDeloney.Available4/1. VA@hoteljackson.com

CommercialOffice SpaceAvailable Convenientlocationon Westbank.Email: space.wilson.wy @gmail.com

Commercial Retail Space – 500 sq ft –2 Floors

Rent $6800 per month plus CAMS North Cache, one block from town square Available Nov 15 Contact: jhwyrealestate@gmail. com

1bed, 1 bath charming dowtown home near W. Pearl Street, unfurnished, F/L/D. No smoking, pets possible. $3800/mth + utilities. Off street parking 307­699­4375 Houses

4BR, 3.5bth,Avail2-1 inTownofJackson, 2+Garage,Fiber, enclosedbackyard,patio,prefLong-Term12yr-307-690-3118F/L/ D$8,000

Alpine 1 bed, 1.5 bath house newer construction. N/P, N/S, $2,500/mo, year lease. First, last + $1000 deposit. (307) 413­0569 Leave message.

Wilson House 4BR, 3.5Bath (furnished) 2300 SF in Wilson. AV Feb. 1. W/D. No smoking. Owner pays elect. and snow blowing. 2 car garage + lots of parking space. Dogs possible, long term lease $7,200/mo. Short term lease possible. 307413­4706

Alpine:Large 3BR,2 BAhome.Fencedyard. 2cargarage.$2500/ mo.Furnishingsnegotiable.Mostutilitiesincluded.Tenantpays electric.F/Dep.Pets neg.NS. CallWendieKing Broker AdvantageRealty POBox930Thayne, Wy83127307-6904706or307-880-2302 wendie.king@ yahoo.com

AlpineGorgeous, large3BR,3BAhome on2.59ac.Largeshop forstorage/toysand2 cargar.Fencedyard. UpstairsBRshaveown kitchen&separateentrance.Unfurnished.All appliancesincluded. $3500/mo. F/L/Dep.Dogsneg.No cats.NS.Availnow. Shortlease.Alsoopen toroommatesituation. CallWendieKing Broker,307-690-4706 AdvantageRealty POBox930 Thayne,WY83127 wendie.king@ yahoo.com

Storage

10' x15'and5'x10'units availablewithhighceilings.Greatlocationnext toCowboyCoffeeDrive ThruandMaverickGas. office@cowboycoffee.co m StorageUnits/Parking Sm/LgRiverwestStorage 1125GreenLn,Wilson riverwest22@gmail.com

SELF-STORAGE

Want to Rent

drop off and pick up included. Book at 307­284­7055, Hyggehutjh@gmail.com hyggehutsauna.com