At 511 inches, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort Closes In On Season Snow Record

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At 511 inches, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort Closes In On Season Snow Record

Published on March 15, 2023 -- in News/weather

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By Jake Nichols, Cowboy State Daily
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It’s been a Wyoming winter – and then some. ... Across the state, everyone’s talking about how much snow they’ve plowed, blowed and shoveled from one place to another. ... On the slopes at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, more than 500 inches have fallen so far this winter.

Folks in Riverton and Lander are experiencing the snowiest winter since recordkeeping began in 1907. Casper, Evanston and other places all over the Cowboy State say the same. People around Wyoming have the same thing to say about the 2022-23 season: “We’re having an old-fashioned winter.”









Snow is piled high all over Jackson, Wyoming. (Jake Nichols, Cowboy State Daily)

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There’s no mistaking winter in Jackson. (Jake Nichols, Cowboy State Daily)

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[Effete Snob]

1. Is it a hole or a mountain?

[Mister Ed]

2. It's a mountain named for a nearby hole.

Some pioneers would call a broad, flat area encircled by mountains a "hole", because it was seemingly a hole in the mountains. Among those were "Jackson's Hole", and, over on the other side of the Teton Range, "Pierre's Hole".

In Jackson's Hole was founded the town of Jackson. People eventually shortened their pronunciation of "Jackson's Hole" to just "Jackson Hole".

When a ski resort was built in the mountains that rise on the southwest edge of Jackson Hole, the resort was likewise dubbed "Jackson Hole". Its name was later made more specific, and today it is officially "Jackson Hole Mountain Resort".