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Expansion of area boundaries, gondola and more aim to create a ‘first-class’ ski resort. By Ben Graham and Mike Koshmrl Snow King Mountain Resort decision-makers said this week they will begin seeking approval for a gondola, top-to-bottom zip line and boundary expansion that would make the Town Hill two-thirds larger. The King’s president, Max Chapman, outlined the ambitious plans for Jackson’s historical community ski area at a town meeting Monday. The aim, Chapman said, is to create a ski hill that will serve locals while also holding its own against other resorts in the region and across the country. “The goal that we’re trying to have for Snow King is to create a truly first-class recreational area that will be for the benefit of our locals as well as our visitors,” Chapman said, “and can compete with anybody in the area or anyone in the country in terms of quality and experience.” Other additions grouped into Snow King’s latest plans include lift-accessed mountain bike trails, a “first class” restaurant on the summit to replace the Panorama House, a new road and maybe even an observatory. The zip line, according to Snow King’s website, would be the steepest in the country, capable of reaching speeds up to 70 mph. An environmental review of the proposals is likely to take a year and
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Susan Hindman kisses granddaughter Bailey Chamberland while Del Hindman holds grandaughter Ashlyn Chamberland on Saturday at the Teton County Fair and Rodeo Royalty Pageant. For more, see Valley section.
Artifact trove tells history Evidence shows ancient campsites in Moose-Wilson corridor where game was processed and weapons made. By Mike Koshmrl Two or three millennia ago, American Indians used the flats above the wetlands along what’s now the northern Moose-Wilson Road as a base camp during seasonal sojourns in Jackson Hole. For thousands of years these natives moved through the valley, tossing aside chunks of obsidian — scraps from toolmaking — and leaving behind arrowheads, knife blades and utensils. The circles of stones they used to hold down the edges of their tipis remain in place where they left them, telling part of the story of their passing. Archeologists at Grand Teton National Park are just now
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Archeologists Jacquelin St. Clair and Shannon Dennison investigate artifacts found along Moose-Wilson Road.
Cops get busy destroying evidence ... and that’s good Jackson police tackle decades-long backlog of obsolete items. By Emma Breysse A bonfire of marijuana smells a lot worse than it sounds like it should. At least if you’re also burning the cookie tins, metal grinders, plastic pill containers and glass pipes that
contain it. Given that, it’s hardly a surprise that when the Jackson Police Department disposes of more than 10 years’ worth of confiscated drug evidence, the county’s burn hut smells more like a recipe for lung cancer than for an afternoon high. In one burn June 17, Sgt. Roger Schultz and Det. Andy Pearson disposed of two truckloads of drugs and drug paraphernalia that have
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been taking up space in long-term evidence storage. Some of it was old enough to vote. “You wouldn’t want to smoke this even if it weren’t a crime,” Schultz said. “And we could have one of these burns every week for a year before we ran out of stuff to burn.” Schultz, who took over the Jackson Police Department’s investigations unit last year, is on a mission to do just that. 12A 25A 26A
“I would love to run out of stuff to burn,” he said. The range of items that became evidence in Jackson criminal cases over the years is straight out of a hoarding intervention. Schultz and Pearson, who are spearheading the campaign to clear out the department’s evidence storage, will say as much. “Police officers are basically
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