I drove up to Bridger Bowl this morning for my first day there this season. It snowed for a while overnight and Bridger was reporting 7″ this morning. Conditions were very soft, deep in places, and rocky in places. South Bowl was a minefield with good snow covering bare rocks. I only managed to ski one run before the power went out to all of Bridger Canyon. I was halfway up Pierre’s Knob and made it to the top on the diesel backup.

Patrol had no idea when power would be back so I raced up the Fingers bootpack ahead of the crowds for one run down the 3rd Finger. Only one person had been down before me and I took an alternate route through some tight trees and scored knee-to-waist deep powder down the entire chute. My legs were toast from a full patrol day at Big Sky the day before and the bootpack was jammed up so I headed home.

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