Yesterday I woke up and checked the snow report, saw the 11″ of fresh and the little blinking blue light on the Bridger homepage that means powder, didn’t believe it, and went back to bed. When I woke up two hours later it was still … Read More →
Category Archives: Bridger Bowl
Some Photos from Last Week’s Ridge Hike
Last week I managed to secure a beacon for a couple of days of skiing off of Bridger’s vaunted Ridge. Tuesday, Clare, Taylor, and I hiked up from the top of the Slushman’s lift to ski some day old powder down to The Fingers. The … Read More →
Blizzard in the Bozone – 1/22-24
El Nino has not been very kind to the Bridgers this season. However, after a two week drought and some really crappy skiing, we finally got some snow this last weekend. Alot of it, actually. Friday, January 22 We got our 1-2″ overnight, and it … Read More →
Slushmans
Tucker and I rented beacons, probes, and shovels today and headed up to Bridger for our first Slushman’s run of the season. Slushman’s is the new chair (formerly the Peruvian Lift at Alta) that Bridger installed last season to the south of Pierre’s Knob. It … Read More →
Styrofoam Skiing & Hillclimbing
Tim, Tucker, and I got up to Bridger today in time for one run down South Bowl. Bridger continues to be chalk over styrofoam, but it was a good break from the hungover dorm. Yesterday was similar, but the condition on Alpine and North Bowl were … Read More →
Outdoor Pursuits Photography Contest
The Outdoor Pursuits floor of Roskie Hall runs a photography contest every year, sponsored by Outside Bozeman and several shops around town. My six entries are below. Yeah! Photo: David Howland Skier: Sam Willits Alex Photo: David Howland Skier: Alex Davis Looming Photo: David Howland … Read More →
Layer Masks
Fed up with Photomerge and Hugin’s inability to accurately merge my action mosaics together, I finally tried working it out manually with layer masks. It actually worked out way better. I have so much more (read: total) control over how the images are blended together … Read More →
Powder Day! – October 29, 2009
What a difference two weeks makes. We did things much smarter this time. A storm rolled in Tuesday and lasted all night, leaving us with about 6″ of snow here on campus in Bozeman and an unknown amount in the mountains. Everything looked white though. … Read More →
Ridge Skiing – D Route and Z Fan
Tucker and I skied off the ridge at Bridger again this past Wednesday. We took the Slashman’s Chair up, hiked to the top of the ridge, and then traversed north to the south boundary of D Route. There, we dropped down Boundary Chute and crossed … Read More →