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 a break in the storm that we’ve been stuck in for the last couple days. 2.5 feet or so in the mountains this last couple days has everything looking white and wintery again.

Heavy snow falling in the Roskie Parking Lot

A ranch house in front of the Bridger Mountains

A road leading towards the Bridger Foothills

This picture is from way back at the end of September, when we got our first snow here in Bozeman. It was also the day that I got a bunch of fluid pumped out of my lyme-diseased knee and then fainted.

Another shot from last November in Yellowstone, this time of the actual springs themselves. I personally think Mammoth Hot Springs is almost better in winter, as the contrast between the snowy landscape and the incredibly hot spring water is really striking.

I snapped this picture of an unknown racer at Mulecross last Halloween.

A tree and the forest reflected in Lava Lake, MT.

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 Triple. As everyone else headed for the tram, we broke trail across the Turkey traverse and scored three runs of freshies. Waist deep pow down a steep bowl in early April? I’ll take it. Tim snapped this series of pictures of me and I stitched them together into this mosaic. Click here for the full-size version (may take a while to load on a slow connection).

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 but Tucker ran into some huge death cookies. South Bowl was a little on the soft and heavy side, as was the rest of the area. We skied the terrain off of Pierre’s, Deer Park, and Alpine before calling it a day at 4. Not a bad afternoon before class.

D Route South

Tucker traversing along the top of the ridge

Excited and ready to drop in to Z-Fan

Skiing the soft snow of Z-Fan

Montana

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 Gully 1

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 and into the fresh snow below them, down the The Bowl, cat-tracked it to Buffalo Jump, and then down War Dance to the base area. We descended about 4,000 feet on this massive run, and coupled with the altitude and the intensity of the skiing we were both two wiped out to continue.

I shot a panorama from the top of the chute that we skied and have stitched it roughly together below. More photos are to come.

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 of Bridgedale hiking socks.