Topic: Jackie Skaggs

Rescue teams used helicopters to remove 16 injured climbers from an exposed mountain in Grand Teton National Park on Wednesday after a thunderstorm and severe lightning struck the area, a park spokeswoman said. One climber was still unaccounted for Wednesday night.Three separate ...
Grand Teton rangers conduct mountain rescue after several climbing parties caught in stormRangers were conducting a high-altitude rescue in Grand Teton National Park after several climbing parties got caught in a lightning storm.Park spokeswoman Jackie Skaggs said Wednesday that rescuers were going ...

Best U.S. National Park Views

You're somewhere along Yellowstone 's Grand Loop Road, idling behind a hulking Range Rover in a long line of rubbernecking ? In 1916, at age 14, he was scrambling around the glacier-carved granite boulders of Yosemite Valley with a Box Brownie camera. ...

Yellowstone, Grand Teton open for winter

Yellowstone, Grand Teton open for winter, but sparse snowpack limits snowmobilesYellowstone and Grand Teton national parks in northwest Wyoming are open for the winter, but a sparse snowpack so far this season means no snowmobiles yet in Yellowstone.The winter season officially began ...