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Skiing is good. Staff generally unfriendly

In general the skiing is quite good here. The mountain is not big on challenge but there is plenty of variety. Grand Targhee tends to get a lot of snow and we benefitted from this with great snow conditions. The disappointing aspect for us was the general level of unfriendliness and lack of helpfulness of the staff. This was quite pervasive from the restaurants and cafes to the front office to the lift workers. We are long time avid skiers and have skied at over 20 resorts (many multiple times) and this was quite surprising to me as it is something that we have never come across before. It seems that ski hills generally seem to attract friendly and happy people and this has always been our experience. I wouldn't say that the people were outright rude, more just indifferent. Each day I would happily greet the lift operators as we approached. Although I did get some engaged responses, mostly people would look down and away, stare blankly through us, or grunt something noncommittal. If I didn't' initiate a greeting it was rare that they would say anything at all. There was more than one occasion in the restaurants where we would receive only a portion of our order. In this situation, when reminding there staff of the missing orders, they would bring them but acted a bit annoyed at having to do so and there was certainly never anything resembling an apology. We don't tend to go in for luxury or opulence so we are used to a basic level of service but this was something unique. The general level of indifference was so pervasive that I have to think that this is a "top down" culture emanating from the resort administration. I simply don't find it plausible that all available employees from this area of the country are this way.

Family ski trip

Perfect mountain for getting my 11 year old to fall in love with powder skiing.. Had knee high to thigh high powder all 3 days.. Although it is 70% intermediate, there is plenty of pitch and trees .. The only downside is stays so foggy you don't get to see how beautiful the mountain and views are.. Also we stayed at the mountain lodge which was comfortable but not a lot of choices for dinners. But all in all a great relaxing family place