1.27.2012 Bridger Bowl
Bridger was eerily similar to the East Coast today. The snow on the lower mountain was very heavy and wind-affected. Anywhere that the wind was able to scour was scraped down to hardpack and was almost unskiable. I hiked up B-Route once to Sluice Box. It was a gorgeous bluebird day and the views from the top of [...]
1.22.2012 Bridger Bowl
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.
1.21.2012 Big Sky
Driving up Gallatin Canyon on my way to work this morning, I was despondent. at 6:30 AM the temperature was 42F and it was pouring rain. Very much par for the course for this winter. Last week a strong storm pounded Montana, delivering record snowfall in most of the major cities. Bozeman and the surrounding [...]
Quick Shot of the Southern Bridger Range
I took this shot of the sun setting on the southern Bridger Range while I was out testing lens and camera combinations for the eclipse on Saturday.
Cyclocross Weekend Highlights
I shot over 2000 pictures this past weekend, culled those 2000 down to about 450 that I posted in my race galleries, and of those 450 I have three that are my favorites. This guy was a total badass. He had the best moustache of the entire race, no question. I’m really happy with this [...]
Mulecross & MTCX State Championships
This past weekend was full of cyclocross in Bozeman. Saturday was the third running of Team Muleterro‘s Mulecross race. As usual, the race had a killer course, great costumes, and hilarious announcers. Sunday was the first running of the MTCX State Championships, hosted by GAS/Intrinsik Cycling. Their course had challenging technical sections, a spooky barn, [...]
Sypes Canyon Story Mill Super Loop
Today I went back out on the bike and linked up one of Bozeman’s more well-known climbs and a new one that I, at least, haven’t heard too much about. This route goes out-of-town on US 86 towards Bridger Bowl, takes a left turn onto Story Mill Rd, climbs to Rolling Hill Rd, and descends [...]
Sypes Canyon Road Ride
Phew. Yesterday I left my house around 4pm for a road ride and headed out Highway 86 to Story Mill Road. Story Mill heads north from 86 towards the Sypes Canyon area of North Bozeman and climbs steeply through some rolling hills. Last week it dead-ended at a road that was under construction. This road, [...]
Gooch Hill Sunset
Gooch Hill rises out of the farmland of the southwestern outskirts of Bozeman and provides a decent vantage point for capturing the light of sunrise or sunset hitting the Bridger Range. I drove out to Gooch Hill and took some shots this evening. I can’t wait for some snow on the Bridgers to really reflect [...]
Driving from Montana to Massachusetts
I study at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT and summer on Cape Cod. This means that I’m lucky enough to get to drive across the country twice per year. Last spring, starting in mid-May I left Bozeman and drove for seven days back to the Cape. I always try and stop and see National [...]
Late Season Skiing at Bridger Bowl
I started my 2010-2011 Ski Season at Bridger Bowl way back on October 27th. Eight months of skiing later, I finished my season in the same place. View Late Season Skiing at Bridger Bowl – May 11, 2011 in a larger map Supposedly, the mountains picked up 1-2 feet of fresh snow earlier this week [...]
The Big Sky
Sometimes the scale of the mountains in Montana absolutely blows me away. This panorama was shot on the road to the Beehive Basin trailhead looking across the valley to Lone Peak and the surrounding mountains. Adobe‘s Content Aware Fill can really make panoramas a lot easier. In this case, I didn’t capture as much of [...]
2011 Bobcat Classic
The 2011 Bobcat Classic was this past weekend at the Lewis & Clark Caverns near Whitehall, MT. Multiple teams from all over the Pacific Northwest showed up for the race. The course followed the rolling, beautiful state highways around the caverns, looping through Cardwell, and back to the Caverns through a notch. The race finished [...]
“Spring” Skiing
Spring in Bozeman has brought us several back-to-back snow storms that have dumped several feet of snow in the mountains and in town. April 8 in Bozeman It snowed all day and all night and I woke up to easily a foot of snow in Bozeman. The drive up the canyon to Big Sky was [...]
Mad Wolf
5″ or so of cold smoke fell last night and it was a good day to work. I took this picture while ski cutting the Mad Wolf cornice under bluebird skies and had a total “I can’t believe this is my job” moment.
Skiing in Color
I reworked one of my images from the Mt. Blackmore trip and processed it in color instead of black & white. I’ve really been enjoying black & white processing lately, but I thought this was worth sharing too.
Mt. Blackmore Attempt – 2/20/2011
My friend Sam and I set out for Mt. Blackmore last Sunday, hoping to summit and ski some fresh snow. Our snowpack had finally started settling down and we were pretty sure we could and ski Blackmore. Plans change, however. The trail in to Blackmore winds it’s way up from Hyalite Reservoir just south of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
