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12-12-2016, 08:29 AM #51
Awesome! You guys look like such punks, haha! We are lucky to have you around to tell us these stories Tom. Speaking of other trip reports, although it would be a bit of a selfish request of me, I would love to hear a story or two about your Bridger Bowl days. Specifically the Ridge Hippies and assorted characters of the day...Was Turk a contemporary of yours at all? I wish I had a time machine and could spend a few days following you guys around back in the late 70s and early 80's, although a hapless gaper I would be following in those cold smoke contrails.
"The skis just popped me up out of the snow and I went screaming down the hill on a high better than any heroin junkie." She Ra
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12-12-2016, 10:26 AM #52
Fun to read this, thanks for sharing. Missin' the bridgers!
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12-21-2016, 07:15 PM #53Registered User
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Oh yeah! Turk, Jerry, Pam, Pat Heinz, the whole bunch of us going crazy on the Ridge. Round and round we went!
Really things haven't changed; well a few more folks of course but we aren't constrained by ropes anymore. Some were more "liberal" with boundaries though.
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12-21-2016, 07:18 PM #54
wonder if hippie mike is still around...
Something about the wrinkle in your forehead tells me there's a fit about to get thrown
And I never hear a single word you say when you tell me not to have my fun
It's the same old shit that I ain't gonna take off anyone.
and I never had a shortage of people tryin' to warn me about the dangers I pose to myself.
Patterson Hood of the DBT's
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12-21-2016, 07:22 PM #55Registered User
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Here is a good Bridger story. This is Northwest Passage back when it was not controlled at all! Coombs yelled down to me to take his picture, I had no idea what he was going to do.
He backed up, skated at the lip and dropped in! He landed, lost a ski and hit the wall in the narrows in a cartwheel.
Crazy!
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12-21-2016, 07:26 PM #56mental projection
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"Flipper" woulda ripped it.
Thanks for the awesome stories Tom.
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12-21-2016, 10:09 PM #57Really things haven't changed
In an age of such social materialism, amidst the incessant worship of youth and beauty inherent in ski culture, it is amazing that the same timeless dudes and ladies are still doin' their thing the same way and for the same reasons they have been since bell bottoms were cool. It's such a great example of how to live life you guys have set up there. I think there needs to be a preservation of this history, a book written about it, a documentary, something.
I feel like, nothing, nowhere, and no one has survived and adapted to the intrusion of modernity like Bridger Bowl and it's loyal patrons, many of who's faithful attendance has spanned more decades than most of us have been alive."The skis just popped me up out of the snow and I went screaming down the hill on a high better than any heroin junkie." She Ra
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12-22-2016, 12:14 AM #58Registered User
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Fackin awesome.
This place needed a thread like this for all us old fucks who are ready for sleep.
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12-22-2016, 12:29 AM #59
That's a sweet shot. To bad he cartwheeled. Prob would of stuck it if the clamp didn't pop
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12-22-2016, 02:51 PM #60Registered User
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Well said!
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12-22-2016, 02:58 PM #61Registered User
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Doug Coombs. I think we were in Blackcomb. I am sorting thousands of slides and it is super fun.
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12-22-2016, 03:00 PM #62Registered User
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Steve Ault entering Heavenly Blue at Bridger Bowl
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12-22-2016, 05:12 PM #63" ... I will do anything to go Skiing ... There Is no pride ... " (Miriam , 2005-2006 epic)
Dec21, 2016. LittleBigLost :
" I think about it everyday. It is my reminder to live life to the fullest. I get up early, go to bed late, 'cuz I got shit to do. Like I said, I'm 61. Not going to wait till I'm 81 to do stuff, ...
Get out there and do stuff!
Enjoy life to the fullest!!
See you on the slopes! "
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12-23-2016, 10:18 PM #64
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12-24-2016, 01:04 AM #65
^^^My favorite powder ski at the time. I bought a team stock pair from the Atomic rep in the East known as the "snow bro".
Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
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12-24-2016, 05:51 AM #66
Ditto on the red sleds. My early 90's Jackson two ski quiver was 205 red sled and 203 4S
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12-26-2016, 12:50 PM #67
All this from a Jong with a Nov '16 join date, what is this place coming to?
This is what keeps me around this insane corner of the innertubs, great stoke from great people new and old. Epic doesn't even begin to describe it.
I agree it is a constitutional right for Americans to be assholes...its just too bad that so many take the opportunity...iscariot
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12-26-2016, 06:44 PM #68Registered User
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Wow, legendary thread
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12-26-2016, 09:34 PM #69Registered User
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So good, Tom. Love this thread. Thanks for the stoke and for helping pave the way!
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12-27-2016, 09:32 PM #70Registered User
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Tom, thank you so much for this. Spent several of my prime ski bum years at Bridger in the mid 90s watching Stump films at night and climbing the ridge during the day. Even had the pleasure of once chasing Doug down the whirlpools on a chance encounter. This thread absolutely made my night.
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01-07-2017, 12:11 AM #71
We miss you, Tom.
"The skis just popped me up out of the snow and I went screaming down the hill on a high better than any heroin junkie." She Ra
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01-07-2017, 12:19 AM #72
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01-07-2017, 05:17 PM #73
Thank you, Tom! Awesome! Especially the comment about how it's still going and going - need to get to MT for some skiing! - Cheers!
"When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible."
Mohandas Gandhi
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02-18-2017, 04:13 PM #74Registered User
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02-18-2017, 04:15 PM #75Registered User
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I hope they were referring to me as the latter!
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