Lower Saddle News Today

In June of 2022, 62-year-old Dan Wenker fell into a moat in the Tetons, breaking his leg. His climbing partner helped save his life.

Jim Woodmencey is the long-standing meteorological sage of Jackson Hole. Since the 1990s his website, Mountain Weather, has carried tailor-made forecasts for both the valley and the Tetons — and, he hopes, has kept many a recreationist safe and warm. There was a time, though, when he didn’t know a cirrus cloud from a cumulonimbus. What happens when a mass of air rides a sloping mountainside up to 13,000 feet? Teenage Woodmencey hadn’t a clue. But after enough weather-induced misa...