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Like all organizations, Teton Science Schools had a rough year due to COVID-19, but a wave of leadership staff exiting the nonprofit is complicating its emergence from the pandemic and search for a new CEO. In the past few months, more than a third of the educational nonprofit’s leadership has either left the organization or submitted notice to do so at the end of the school year. The flood of resignations follows allegations of systemic problems and gender discrimination at Teton Science Schools and what some employees say has been a lack of willingness on the part of the school’s ...

To say it’s a relic of days gone by is an understatement. Every ski lift in the vicinity has gone higher-tech, with heated sidewalks to melt snow and hydraulic lifts that pick up speed. To load on the Summit Lift means walking or skidding onto a wooden platform where painted feet tell you where to stand. From there the journey has to be part of the destination because it will take you anywhere from 10 to 25 minutes to get to the top. (The lift changes speeds depending on who is riding it. It slows for sightseers and picks up for skiers. Regular King skiers will see people loading without sk...

Nancy Leon is no stranger to steep and deep. After a life spent on skis — competing on the University of Denver’s ski team, instructing in Chamonix and skiing France’s backcountry — it’s pretty clear that Leon can handle any and all terrain. I should know: I could barely keep up with her when we skied one of the deepest days of the season together at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. “This is what Jackson is about,” Leon proclaimed, perched on Marmot lift as the sky spewed flakes of fluffy stuff. Leon used to only be about hard alpine terrain. She started skiing...