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Surprise Chowder Day

David Howland — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:19:50 +0000

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 hoofed it up to the hill. We skied a couple runs in North Bowl and Pierre’s Knob before Forrest and I decided to take a run on the Deer Park lift to ski a gully we’d scouted from below. The gully was awesome, with deep snow and a ton of fun drops and woods.

The clouds lifted and the views were awesome.

Twenty four hour snowfall total right now: 24″

Chimney Sweep

David Howland — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:32:48 +0000

I filmed and edited this movie together after the Backcountry Agenda 2008 Tuckerman’s Ravine weekend.

Chimney Sweep from David Howland on Vimeo.

Generations

David Howland — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:10:37 +0000

Winter is Coming

David Howland — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:41:05 +0000

89 days until Bridger Bowl opens!

Zimtstern “Leaves” from Zimtstern Snowboarding on Vimeo.

A Powder Week at Bolton Valley – Day 1

David Howland — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:26:16 +0000

This trip turned up completely by surprise when my friend Matt called me Monday morning to say that his friend had gotten sick and that he had an extra spot open in his car. His plan was to drive up to Williston, VT and spend the night at the Holiday Inn. Overnight guests supposedly got free lift tickets to nearby Bolton Valley. The forecast was for a warm week and conditions up north had been icy, groomed hardpack the previous weekend. I’m never one to turn down free skiing, however, so Wednesday morning Matt and I left Cape Cod for Vermont.

The first night skiing session started at around 7pm in the very cold, windy, and slushy Bolton parking lot. The mountain was hurting for snow, and there were large bare, rocky sections on most of the trails. Thank God I paid close attention to these bare spots that night. The woods were dangerous. And then it started to snow. By the end of the night, as Matt and I left early to ensure we would be able to make our way down the access road, about 6″ of powder had collected on the mountain.

The next morning, after we sidled our way into line with a visiting ski team to get a free breakfast, we crawled, slid, and skidded our way up to Bolton Valley. 18 inches of fresh snow blanketed the mountain, covering all the bare rock from the previous night. It also made the skiing absolutely incredible.