Thread: TR; this last weekend at Bridger

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Be sure to pay up on your health insurance policy if you plan on hitting anything remotely south facing with light density snow disguising the coral reef chunder happening up there. Some big ice chunks lurking....

stay positive, stay positive, don't freak, stay positive
I know the Avi forecast only forecasted 2-4" but NOAA was calling 10-18" by Sunday evening. I always go with the Avi guys, but NOAA gives me this false hope and I can't help but want to see it happen.

It causes me great distress...
NOAA

And yes I know I'm the one a few pages back that said stay positive, but that was in reference to conditions not shitty forecasting.

well Ill be feelin yer pain next yr m'brothas, but for today my golf game goes on...
maybe its a powder monday?

Here is a useful link (even if it is NOAA) a little more specific to Bridger via the point and click digital forecast page: http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/wxt...82&lon=-110.92

to Bridger via the point and click digital forecast page

I spent all of last year and this year checking that thing day in and day out and I found that:

THEY ARE ALWAYS WRONG! Except when predicting warmups and high pressure. It is as good as guessing looking at their forecast snowfall amounts. No more reliable than the weather channel for predicting Bridger storms. Gotta just go with the hourly update on the weather station link on the hill.

But, whatever, I still waste my time checking that useless NOAA site anyways.

And as Hick said, I don't know what the deal is with them predicting over a foot of snow with below zero temps. You'd think the weather model computers would have figured out by now that it never happens.

Originally Posted by MildWille

Here is a useful link (even if it is NOAA) a little more specific to Bridger via the point and click digital forecast page: http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/wxt...82&lon=-110.92

oh I'm all about the point and click my man. I am a bit of a junky, but that is what they were saying... worse case of dust on crust I have seen in awhile.

Holy shit, I didn't know whether I was skiing on rocks or ice chunks today. My vote goes for both.

happy i went to mlb and only got 2 core shots

It's usually worth a few when it's good, eh?

I guess the "surprise" Bridger storms that they don't see coming balance out the wildly optimistic snowfall predictions that never come to fruition. The low angle Alpine stuff probably skied best yesterday...fresh tracks on Bobcat and Wolverine...woohoo! Here is a pic from happier times in early January when the "new" south facing D-Route stuff off Schlasman's was $$$.

Did things change thaT much from Saturday? I skied saddle a few times on sat and it was pretty damn good. I did wuss out on the cold yesterday though. My pops gets into town Tuesday and we're going to hit BB, lost trail, maverick, disco and maybe mlb or Bs.

Originally Posted by fez

Did things change thaT much from Saturday? I skied saddle a few times on sat and it was pretty damn good. I did wuss out on the cold yesterday though. My pops gets into town Tuesday and we're going to hit BB, lost trail, maverick, disco and maybe mlb or Bs.

No, what skied well on Sat skied even better yesterday if you could keep warm.

I pussed out today though, have fun with the old man!

Here is some stoke from Monday. It was skiing well, at least on the north-facing stuff, and it was completely empty. All pics of Curtis. A few of you folks have met him in one context or another.

Yeah, still amusing on north facing. I lapped flippers all day and it was actually really fun.

Thanks for the pics, as I didn't make it up this weekend.

I've got a voucher good for a full day ticket at 1/2 day price, good through Saturday, pm if you can use it.

What is the line people are skiing in the daily video on the Bridger website? Can't seem to connect it...

They're all in the Hidden zone I believe. First one is somebody dropping the Larry entrance into Hidden proper, and next the skier in the yellow jacket is in the bottom of the first virtue, which I was lucky enough to schralp first tracks on windbuff in while these guys were still setting up.

http://www.bridgerbowl.com/mediagall...eo/2009/01/29/

Yup, Hidden and 1st Virtue down to the Apron. Was filming with 2 skiers and another camera guy from the Ride Guide, a Canadian tv outfit that was here as part of a Montana road trip to Big Sky/Moonlight, Bridger and Red Lodge. Hidden and the Apron skied pretty well considering we've had like 3 inches of snow in the past 3 weeks Takes awhile to get set up with two cameras...at least it wasn't a pooder day Bonus was riding the Ridge poma for the first time in 14 years...a guy could get used to that!

Looking at next week's forecast, all I can say is dust off the old carving skis! WOO HOO, another week of Euro steeze!

I see that we got -0 inches of snow last night.

North faces, and even some of the sunnier north a-route stuff was still riding quite well today.

Oh, yeah, despite the depressing statistics, today was so much fun! A few blown around inches and some light can do wonders. Some pleasant surprises for sure.

P nut finally got a pair of real skis and now I am feeling the pressure from the old man. Gotta step it up!

I think I spotted MT up there in the afternoon, is that you in the green with the tele skis?

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Yeah, nice. Show' em what we do around here after three weeks of drought.

Today was a little scrappier than yesterday, eh?

Any idea what the rescue was all about today? I left Bridger a little after four and there were a number of SAR vehicles + sherrif's dept. A chopper was flying up Bridger Canyon as I drove home.