Montana Cyclocross in Black & White
I’ve made a small microsite for the best of my pictures from the 2010 cyclocross season. I culled 14 of my best pictures and converted them to black and white. The site is here: Cyclocross 2010.
Big Sunset
The sunset at the end of the day today was stunning. Patrol training finished at around 5:30 and as I walked out into the parking lot, the sky lit up. I snapped a few pictures and a panorama and then tried to drive down to my pre-scouted sunset location. By the time I got to [...]
Snow in Big Sky
This weekend was the Big Sky Ski Patrol Medical Refresher. I spent all weekend, from 8am on Saturday until 4:30PM on Sunday running scenarios and listening to lectures from doctors and patrollers. It was a really interesting weekend, a great chance to get back into the swing of things EMT-wise, and a good break from [...]
Springhill Road
Last night I drove out to Springhill Road north of Bozeman to try and get away from the light pollution of the city. Parked on the edge of a pasture, I took several photos. It was actually kinda creepy as the pasture was full of coyotes that were yipping away quite angrily. This agitated several [...]
First Turns of the Season
Yesterday I cut class and headed up to the mountains. Bridger was crowded, with cars parked all the way down into the second lot. Not bad for the 27th of October. The four of us started hiking up, really wishing we had touring gear. First purchase of the year? I think so. We hiked up [...]
Short Hike to the M
What a difference in Montana this fall. About a year ago I played hooky from class and hiked up to the top of the ridge below Mt. Baldy. There was about three feet of snow on the ridge and more falling as I was hiking. This year there was absolutely no snow…and it hit about [...]
MSU/GAS Cyclocross Weekend
This weekend was the 2010 MSU/GAS-Intrinsik Cyclocross weekend in Bozeman, MT. The race was held at the East Gallatin Recreation Area. The course looped around the pond, through a wicked sand section along the beach with a chicane, and across the lawns and trails surrounding the pond. The shooting conditions were somewhat less than optimal [...]
Hiking Sacagawea
So, finally, after three attempts, I summited Sacajawea. My father and I have tried, my mother and I have tried, and Alex and I have tried. All three times turned back by snow. Well, I made it this time. Here’s the GPS tracks. The full image gallery is here. Summary stats for the hike from [...]
Main Street
Around 2am last night I went down to Main St and took some more long exposure nighttime shots. Unfortunately, it was raining and there were alot of street lights so it was tough to manage to amount of light in the shots, but I got a couple decent pictures.
Experimenting With Star Trails & Long Exposure
I drove up to Hyalite Reservoir tonight to try out my new remote shutter release and to try and take some long exposure pictures of the night sky. I was mildly successful. I managed to get pictures of the stars, but they were either moving too much or not enough. This shot was taken at [...]
Winter Stoke
Snow has been flying here in Bozeman and the Bridgers have been coated more than once this September. I thought it was time for some winter stoke to get psyched for the coming ski season. This picture is of Sam skiing the meadows above the fingers last October 29th. Here’s hoping that this early season [...]
Late April
I got a little delayed from my “post-per-day” strategy this last couple days due to the finals in my EMT class. Both the class final and the NREMT practical final were this week, so I was up to my neck in my wonderful EMT textbook. I still got out to shoot some yesterday afternoon during [...]
Big Sky Mosaic
There are alot more pictures coming as finals wrap up and I have more and more time to update this site, but I’ll start out with this teaser. Tim and I had the run(s) of our lives at Big Sky over Easter Weekend. We hopped in line for about 15th chair on the Lone Peak [...]
Bozeman Cityscape
I shot this last week from the top of the parking garage in downtown Bozeman and failed to see the interesting graffiti in the background. Oh well. B&W Film.
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 over into Z-Chute. The Z-Fan runout was excellent soft snow [...]
Big Sky Ripping
I posted briefly a while ago with a panorama taken at Big Sky on the last week of February. The post detailing our run is here and the rest of the pictures are below. Tucker at the end of the traverse scoping out our line Skiing above The Bowl and Turkey Traverse Tucker charging down [...]
Big Sky Briefly
Tucker and I skied Big Sky on Saturday and made all of one run during the three and a half hours we were there. We took lifts to the top of Lone Peak and then skied down the Otter Traverse to the top of the Dictator Chutes. We put tracks down one of these chutes [...]
Surprise Chowder Day
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 showing the same thing. Forrest, Tim, Tucker, Megan, and I [...]
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 view from the top of the Ridge was stunning. The [...]
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 was snowing lightly all day. Nothing really worth mentioning, but [...]
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 accesses some great, un-demarcated, patrolled terrain. Beacons are required to [...]
