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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'snow'
Big Sky Briefly
March 2nd, 2010 No Comments
Tags: Big Sky · lone peak · Montana · Panorama · Photography · Skiing · snow · Winter
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
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 [...]
Tags: boston · Bozeman · bridger bowl · Cape Cod · christmas · denver · hotel · Photography · Skiing · snow · Travel · tripod · united airlines
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
Hiking Around Sacagawea
November 22nd, 2009 2 Comments
Veteran’s Day my father and I had another assault on Sacagawea planned. The first trip up got stuck on the road up to the mountain. Literally. This second trip, we parked the car before we got stuck, and hiked up to the Fairy Lake trailhead. We decided, given the snow depth, that we didn’t have [...]
Tags: black and white · Bridger Range · Hiking · Montana · mountains · Photography · Sacagawea · snow · veterans day
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