sweet baby jesus! thanks much for the early pics fez! Hope no one got caught

ooooh it was a good day indeed. :)

@Telemarc - hard to beat THAT, but, here are some of mine from this day. best day ever??

(p.s. marc - what's that big cliff are you guys sending? is that over on Bitter End? or BC somewhere?)
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so... the last two days at Bridger...
*jizz in my pants*

Schlasmans was freaking amazing today... even with the long lift line. I hope all y'all mags were up there to enjoy it. :)

Oh, and I...

So, I don't have a scanner, but here is a crappy picture of the (already folded) map the patrollers have available at the bottom of the lift now:
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the hard-on these Skipopow vids give me... there are just no words.

has winter returned to Bridger?? (*please please please*)
well, it did for a day at least. :)

http://www.oronaut.com/wp-content/gallery/0809winter3/tele-pow.jpg
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This is probably old news and you've all seen it, but I saw this posted up on the Goat today and it was new to me. And it was hilarious. I mean, watching someone get it in the nutz will never go out...

seriously? no option for the little ski "area" known as the ROCKIES?
MT-ID-UT-CO??

of course, I guess if you're in "business school" this is just par for the course, eh?
I will stop my rant...

man... I wish Montana had more piller's like that

shit! I remembered seeing the patrollers gathered around the traverse there with a sled. I figured someone bombing back to the Bridger lift had finally creamed someone coming out of the gully there,...

sweet man. one of these days I need to get in to CO and check out all these huts!

I wish Montana had better huts...

no, I don't think the other guy raced the day before. (I think he might have said he drank the day before though...) he was more of a big mountain freeride kind of guy sponsored by Moment skis - he...

So, I'm sort of trying to start to kind of get somewhat serious about rando racing this year. :)

http://www.oronaut.com/wp-content/gallery/0809winter2/me-hitting-the-ridge.jpg
me n00bing it on...

So, the other day I was dropping down into the Ravine, because since they put the rope line up it holds the pow-pow a lot longer. :) But when I got down to the crux, above the gully-cliffs, I heard...

It's a little belated, but here's some stoke from the storm at Bridger last week:

http://www.oronaut.com/wp-content/gallery/0809winter2/dicks-air-1.jpg
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holy balls!
I hope my buddy wasn't working in the back kitchen when that hit??
glad to hear (unbelievably) everyone seems to be accounted for and OK.

and now it's raining here in Driggs today,...

It's still sort of a pack, but the Mystery Ranch Broomstick, from Bozeman, is made exactly for this kind of thing:
Link

Pickels- I have found a few guides for Teton Pass and the Jackson backcountry (Granite Canyon, etc). Never been to Stowe. True I've never seen a guide for Big Sky sidecountry... but all the inbounds...

muted and xtrPickels- I'm not necessarily saying we should just toss names out there, willy nilly, and expect them to stick... although I did just that :rolleyes:. It is premature. I do want to find...

muted- They probably do, and if they do, I would like to put them on the map! But all I'm aware of is what's on official trail map, which is just Mundy's and Slushmans. Also, at the bottom of the...

RidgeKid- You do make some good points about safety, and God knows we all hate scraped out lines. I have a few counter arguments though, of course. :)

First, I'm not sure how having more...

So, I just started a new thread to try to name and map the new terrain, a la Stepping Up. Check it out, and feel free to submit existing names or suggest new ones. Oh, and add new/better pictures,...

Calling all Bridger mags! I want to try to get the new Schlasmans lift terrain mapped and named a little, like how the old Stepping Up book did for the Ridge. I see some stuff already has names, like...

man, bad news at J-Hole today - inbounds avi death. Thanks for the info on your blog, Randosteve: Link

keep playing it safe everyone! even inbounds!

I preach the Gospel of Bridger Bowl, so my advice in that area is a given. Very biased, but very strong. The new lift at BB is gnarly, the Ridge has entertained me for five years and counting before...

Targhee was sweet today. 15" (ish) of fresh, and deeper in the trees from the day before. the winds which apparently took all the snow off of Targhee and dropped it on Jackson yesterday buffed out...

the passes are not transferable (and they have your picture on them).

however, if you can get one, they're pretty sweet because (at least last year) you can "reload" them one time for six more...

I might have a couch you can crash on by January... and if I do, you're welcome to it. Also, I'll be happy to ride a backcountry day or two, or midweek Bridger days (the new lift is siiiick - when...

wow. TKB is rocking my face.
skipopow = teh awesome.
monopopow??? = no words...

hmmm, I'm going to have to side with Bozeman tele hotness... represent!

lol. a buddy of mine here in Bozeman just got a speed wing. I don't want to imply he's a bad pilot... but I still need to make sure I'm there to film him, because, well, I imagine this is what it...

I was out touring the Crazies yesterday and spotted these awesome lines up by the Twin Lakes in Big Timber Creek. I'm thinking mostly of that wider notch to the right, but the smaller notch to the...

my 2 cents (or, like, 6 cents):

I went to MSU. 20-30mins to Bridger Bowl means before/after class skiing is possible. It's the closest "real" college to "real" ski resort commute in the...

yo! bummer the turn out was so poor for the movie, but I'm glad to see you guys got up in the Montana hills for some cold smoke!

cheers,

I mean... we did get a foot+ of snow in the Bridgers the last couple of days...

and the forecast is for more precip the next 7 days...

so yeah, I wouldn't bother making the trip. nothing to see...

yeah, it's pretty good up there right now. here's a few pics from the last two days:

the storm on Wednesday
http://www.oronaut.com/wp-content/gallery/0809winter1/bridger-storm-snowstorm.jpg
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Today the new USSMA website went online! Check it out for information about the US "rando" racing series. The 2009 Race Schedule is up!

US Ski Mountaineering Association

The sister-site for the...

I just finished the new USSMA and COSMIC websites:

US Ski Mountaineering Association

Colorado Ski Mountaineering Cup

Check 'em out!

So, I went on a hike to check out the Windy Pass Cabin, which is up on the Gallatin crest. Pretty rad little cabin, but it was not built with skiing in mind. Still, being up in the mountains like...

the alps are so rad! dammit.

hey flingle, do you have a GPS then? that produces the kml file of your route and the elevation profile? *jealous* I need to get one of those! looks sharp on the blog....

glad to see so many people were out there enjoying the snow today! the road was, indeed, clogged with cars. :) we totally saw your group up there, tone_capone, I'd have said hi if I recognized you....

I'm going to treat this like an on-going Bridger Bowl update thread?

anyway, checked it out today with totalimmortal. dust-on-crust conditions (from the recent rain, no doubt) but that was kind...

holy fuck. I had not heard about this.

on a lighter note: if I were to guess I which bar this happened at I probably would, in fact, have guessed "the Scoop".

can't make it to the benefit but...

I first heard about this through a NewWest.net article.

this caught my eye in the write up:


glades, nordic trails and mountain biking without needing to ride the lift? alpine glades with no...

I really liked the simplicity of this app, and used a lot last year (logged 72 days, apparently). It was broken for a while, but it looks like they've fixed it. on the main Snowbook page there was a...

siiiiick. man, we need to play a little catch-up here in MT.

even though I'm from driggs I've never been over to Togwotee for some reason. this year though, it's on. :)

so jealous of that snow cover. damn.

I'm also trying to figure out ski potential of the cabins around SW montana. Too many of the cabins are out of the mountains though, or require a looong skin in. There's a few that look promising...

That knife-edge on Hasler... jesus christo man. Would love to ski that line though! Sickter gnar.

Also, I didn't realize this guy was in Hand Cut, nice.