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 'Winter'
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
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
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
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
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
Local Routes
October 13th, 2009 No Comments
Some East Coast stoke from HighAnxietyFilms.
Local Routes from Chris Nelson on Vimeo.
Tags: high anxiety films · local routes · Mount Washington · New Hampshire · Skiing · smugglers notch · smuggs · snow · stowe · tuckermans ravine · Vermont · Winter
Chimney Sweep
October 8th, 2009 No Comments
I filmed and edited this movie together after the Backcountry Agenda 2008 Tuckerman’s Ravine weekend.
Chimney Sweep from David Howland on Vimeo.
Tags: Camping · cold · Mount Washington · movie · New Hampshire · Skiing · snow · snowboarding · Winter
Bridger Ridge Hike
October 7th, 2009 1 Comment
Facing a rather desolate and gloomy week (Lab on Wednesday, classes until 9pm on Thursday with a bonus Economics midterm thrown in for fun) I decided to blow off studying and packing and go for a hike. My goal was 8914′ Baldy Mountain, the first mountain visible along the Bridger Range from Bozeman. The trail [...]
Tags: baldy · baldy mountain · Bozeman · bridger bowl · cold · Hiking · m · Montana · ridge · snow · Winter