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 [...]
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Big Sky Briefly
March 2nd, 2010 No Comments
Tags: Big Sky · lone peak · Montana · Panorama · Photography · Skiing · snow · Winter
OP Photography Contest Results
February 20th, 2010 No Comments
About a month ago I blogged about the Outdoor Pursuits Photography Contest. Well, the results came in and I won 1st Place in the Action/Adventure Category with my picture of Sam skiing some really deep powder back in mid-October. Along with a fancy ribbon I won a $20 Northern Lights gift card and a pair [...]
Tags: Bozeman · bridgedale · Montana · northern lights · outdoor pursuits · Photography · photography contest · powder · Skiing
Surprise Chowder Day
February 13th, 2010 No Comments
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 [...]
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
2nd Round of Prints – F Stop and Depth of Field
February 8th, 2010 No Comments
Our second week assignment for photography class was to toy around with F-stop and depth of field, two aspects of photography that I’ve always been interested in. I brought my camera to PetCo and shot some birds.
Tags: birds · Bozeman · depth of field · f stop · Film · Montana · montana state university · pet co · Photography
First Black & White Print
February 1st, 2010 No Comments
Today, I printed my first black and white print while part of the MSU Photography program. I’ve been processing and printing black and white film for the better part of three years now, but MSU’s equipment, protocol, and processes are slightly different (and apparently slightly less reliable). All of which resulted in a pretty “interesting” [...]
Tags: black & white · Bozeman · chemicals · enlarger · Film · Montana · montana state university · Photography
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
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
Yellowstone National Park
December 3rd, 2009 No Comments
My father and I spent the weekend of November 14-16 at Yellowstone National Park. During the winter (pretty much after late October) the only entrance to the park that is open is the Northern entrance in Gardiner, MT. All the roads in the park are closed, except for the road that runs from Mammoth Hot [...]
Tags: bison · buffalo · Camping · cooke city · gardiner · mammoth · mammoth hot springs · Montana · snow · Winter · wolf · wyoming · Yellowstone