"Rendezvous Bowl was icy and windswept in its uppers but softer and more forgiving halfway down. I popped out of bounds, did a couple of hikes, and clicked my skis on in a face-gouging wind. When I got to my drop-in, there were a few inches of snow and a foot of wind."
"I skied an open slope that was wind-prone and found mostly scratchy old snow just beneath 0-4″ of new snow. Rutted ice, smooth ice, mini wind slabs, and some very nice wind-buff snow in spots. Mostly, the snow was very loud, but there were about 20 muffled, quiet turns."
"The Jackson Hole Summit weather station is showing 43 mph winds with 71 mph gusts as of 5:00 pm (the latest reading) today. Local radar confirms that the main band of moisture is just to our north in Yellowstone. Fingers crossed it bends back down south to the Tetons this evening."
A storm arrived at Jackson Hole on March 14, 2026, depositing 0-4 inches of new snow over existing base. Rendezvous Bowl exhibited mixed conditions with icy, windswept upper slopes transitioning to softer snow lower down. Out-of-bounds terrain revealed rutted ice, smooth ice, mini wind slabs, and occasional wind-buff snow beneath the new accumulation. Wind gusts reached 71 mph at the summit, creating loud, scratchy snow conditions with only brief sections of quiet turns. By evening, precipitation had ceased while strong winds persisted, with the main moisture band positioned north in Yellowstone. Low visibility and altered landscape features made navigation challenging during descent.
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