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 [...]
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Surprise Chowder Day
February 13th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: Bozeman · bridger bowl · chowder · deer park · gully · Montana · mountains · powder · Skiing · snow · snowboarding · Winter
Some Photos from Last Week’s Ridge Hike
February 12th, 2010 No Comments
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 Bridger [...]
Tags: Bozeman · bridger bowl · Bridger Range · Montana · Photography · powder · Skiing · slushmans · snow · the ridge
Blizzard in the Bozone – 1/22-24
January 26th, 2010 No Comments
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 a couple [...]
Tags: blizzard · Bozeman · bridger bowl · deep · fingers · Montana · mountains · powder · ridge · Skiing · slushmans · snow · the fingers · Winter
Slushmans
January 19th, 2010 No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: avalanche · beacon · Bozeman · bridger bowl · lift · Montana · Photography · probe · shovel · Skiing · slushmans · snow · south bowl · weather
Styrofoam Skiing & Hillclimbing
January 17th, 2010 No Comments
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 a little bit better. God we need snow!
The day got [...]
Tags: Bozeman · bridger bowl · Hyalite Canyon · Running · Skiing · snow · Winter
A Month Off
January 13th, 2010 No Comments
For some reason, I haven’t posted on this site in over a month. I spent the month of December skiing, of which I have some pictures to post. December delivered one powder day at Bridger Bowl, and some excellent packed powder days which were frigidly cold. Needless to say, I now have more frostbite on [...]
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Outdoor Pursuits Photography Contest
December 3rd, 2009 1 Comment
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
Strangled Photo: David Howland
Circle Photo: David Howland
Hiking Photo: David Howland Hiker: Jonathan Howland
Tags: bridger bowl · composite · fire · gardiner · Hiking · layer mask · Montana · outdoor pursuits · photo contest · Photography · singing · Skiing · Yellowstone
Layer Masks
October 30th, 2009 No Comments
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 and how they are aligned. I still have a long [...]
Tags: action mosaic · alex · bridger bowl · layer mask · Montana · Photoshop · powder · snow
Powder Day! – October 29, 2009
October 29th, 2009 No Comments
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.
We left campus around 7:30 and were hiking at 8:00.
The hike [...]
Tags: Bozeman · bridger bowl · cold · fingers · Hiking · Montana · pierre's knob · powder · Skiing · snow · the fingers · Winter
Day 1 at Bridger Bowl
October 14th, 2009 1 Comment
My alarm rang at 7:36 this morning. I dragged myself out of bed, angry and confused at why I was awake so early. And then I remembered…I was going skiing! Adam and I loaded the car, the smell of the fresh wax on the skis lingering in the air. I settled in to the driver’s [...]
Tags: Bozeman · bridger bowl · Climbing · cold · early season · Hiking · ice · ice axe · Montana · Skiing · snow · Winter