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  1. #1
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    Schweitzer Backcountry

    So I've searched TGR, google, hell even the library and i've only seen a few forums and looked at a few topo maps regarding the schweitzer backcountry. I don't want to uncover the locals favorite secret stashes, but how is the schweitzer backcountry? I'm planning to ski with some locals this year and hopefully find some new areas, does anyone have any personal favorites?

  2. #2
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    Dec 2007
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    Plenty of places until the day after the storm. Yes I do have favorites, too.

  3. #3
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    here's some easy access goods just over big blue(north slackountry) last new years day while most of the US was skiing rocks
    embrace the gape
    and believe

  4. #4
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    Hey Board, what are you doing posting a pic of the Wasatch in a Schweitzer thread?

    Everybody knows Schweitzer is flat, has no real sidecountry, and what little snow they get is wet and heavy just like Seattle. Also, all the locals are skinhead fascists, the restaurants serve roadkill, and all the nearby towns are shitholes. Shame on you for steering our new friend dmski wrong like that.

    I just heard Vail is putting in a new gondola.
    "We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. -George Santayana, The Philosophy of Travel

    ...it would probably bother me more if I wasn't quite so heavily sedated. -David St. Hubbins, This Is Spinal Tap

  5. #5
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    are you beeping?

    rog
    SKI THE EAST

    http://vimeo.com/22318330

    cuz it ain't fucking cool

  6. #6
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    Schweitzer has put in a new policy this year, and all backcountry in north ID is closed.

    I hear Big Sky is good.
    Quote Originally Posted by Smoke
    Cell phones are great in the backcountry. If you're injured, you can use them to play Tetris, which helps pass the time while waiting for cold embrace of Death to envelop you.

  7. #7
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    i usually put in a lap or 2 on blue every day i skied last year. always worth it

  8. #8
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    board sweet pic! farmer are you serious? No way that they would do that! do you have a link to that new ruling?

  9. #9
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    farmer's just deflecting traffic from his favorite stash
    embrace the gape
    and believe

  10. #10
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    speaking of traffic, road kill backstraps are the best; quick kill = no adrenalin

    fascist local that thniks skinhead is a bc enthusiast.
    embrace the gape
    and believe

  11. #11
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    and drag em through the dirt har har. you guys coulda had way more fun! how about skiing off of lower loophole or off southridge? do they meet up with the xc trails and are they open enough tree skiing?
    Ya can't get hurt in the air, its those sketchy landings that suck.

  12. #12
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    south ridge to 3rd switchback is a common route
    park a car or hitch back up
    embrace the gape
    and believe

  13. #13
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    I am with The Duke! The locals suck, did not show me around at all. Oh and the snow was horrible that week.

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