We provide healthy food on all of our trips. Special diets, such as vegetarians or lactose-intolerant, can be easily accommodated. Breakfasts include fruit, juice, hot drinks, scrambles, omelettes and cereals. Lunches are typically served in the field and consist of sandwich meats, cheeses and veggies, snacks such as trail mix and dried fruit, chocolate and homemade cookies. Dinners start with appetizers, like brie and crostini, Boar’s Head …
winter
What is a yurt?
Yurts are round, one-roomed self-supporting structures based on Mongolian nomadic shelters. If you were to go to Mongolia, you might see yurts made of yak skin with a hole in the roof to allow smoke from cooking fires to escape. Our yurts sit on a wooden platform, have a wood stove for heat, a propane stove for cooking, bunk beds, tables and chairs, lanterns and sheltered-pit toilets for outhouses. In the Tetons, yak skin is replaced by canvas …
How cold can it get in the Tetons?
The weather varies from day to day here. Here is a general idea: December is the coldest month with the shortest days. It can also be some of the best skiing because of those two factors. Highs average in the low 20’s or teens with overnight lows dipping into the single digits or below zero. January can be cold and stormy, although we generally get a winter thaw somewhere in the month. Temps can rise into the low 30’s during the days or it …