I worked on the Sublette Chair (aka, The Quad) at JHMR for 2-3 years
in the mid to late nineties and I never saw winds like this. Wow!
Video by Rachel Shaver.
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HOLY CRAP!!!! the wind was pretty stout up here in bozeman but not that bad. the snow was like creamy butter. p.s. randosteve, i’ll order a visor on my next payday. also have you ever heard of a book called jackson hole ski atlas, picked up an old copy at a thrift store for 25 cents. pretty cool.
Been in wind like that a few times, but definitely not stuck on a chair lift. Why was it even open for business??
jernej…if you turn up the volume, it sounds as if the lift IS closed and they are trying to get everyone off of it.
CRAZY!!!!
i heard that during this storm there were some gusts to 150 in the wyoming range…south of jackson.
We found ourselves in whiteout conditions in the trees on the Pass. It was crazy!
I used to work in the JHMR ticket office and we had a link to windspeeds at the top of the mountain. One storm cycle the weather report called for the storm to come in from the northwest and the jet stream to essentially settle over the Tetons at roughly 11000 feet. The wind speed at the top registered at 186. The mountain was on a total hold and they had to go pick up the top trammie and take up the nightcrawler trammie in a snowcat that almost got stuck going up the bowl. Later on we found out that 186 is the upper limit of measure on the wind gauge on top and the wind may actually have been stronger than that.
garry…186mph??? that is freaking out of control…do you remember what year that was???
I work on the Village Road and live in Alpine. Just across the river from the third and final passing lane on the way back home, I saw a 100ft lodgepole pine snap off about halfway up. Been driving the canyon for almost 5 yrs. and have never driven through winds like that.
totally OOC greg!!! must have been a wild drive!
I worked there in the winters of 02/03 and 03/04, so one of those two. I think 02/03 if I remember correctly. At first we thought it was a fluke but some other measurements from around the valley were in the hundreds as well. They stopped running the tram at all, no employees, no patrollers, no one. If I remember correctly AV even blew down and Sublette was reporting winds in the hundreds.
thanks for that garry!
Fun!
Heh, funny video, i was on the last tram on Tue 3/30 before they shut it down and my face almost froze off at the top. half way down the bowl it finally cleared up/slowed down and i got sweet tracks down bivouac. ended up doing a top to bottom since everything was blown down except for teewinot @ 3:15pm
Jernej, it wasn’t open when this video was taken. when you hear the mechanic talking about ten chairs to go, that’s the only public who were able to ride the chair all day. the two people on the chair when the 110 mph gust comes through are a sublette lifty and a lift supervisor.
the day this happened, by 3pm EVERYTHING was blown down except for teewinot, including the gondi and the tram.