Nice!

Man, I love the grizzly ridge. So many good afternoons spent there.

Are you back to living in MT now?

If Mario was there in the late '90s early 2000s then quite possibly.

Including my circle. Are they more accurate on their snow reports now?

Awesome!

That website says they just do independent design work now. Unless i'm reading it wrong, they don't make their own line anymore. So I guess they're still around in some capacity?

A good buddy of...

Wooky evidently didn't have the gumption. Just looked them up and they've been gone for a bit.

Oof, evidently my sil broke her humerus a few days ago on some blue cruiser at bs last week. Caught a tiny stump sticking out and splat to the hardpack.. I wonder how many have preceded her and are...

At least it's not raining 10" on your barely existent snowpack like it currently is in the cascades.

But I am glad we are waiting until February for our Montana trip rather than December. Hope...

It's like a quadruple green.

Gnarly. My family in the area says griz activity is at an all-time high, particularly in the backcountry behind the rainbow ranch. Not sure where this took place, but says south of big sky. Yep,...

Old school. I'll have to dig through my wife's families photos. They put a house on the Gallatin back in '76 and she remembers the mad wolf/gondola II era. Amongst other memories - knowing how...

Pretty, but too low for kayaking.

Going to be out there in two weeks and am stoked. Nothing like some green Montana. Hope it keeps up.

I want to be swimmy!

There's a few names on here that aren't even in stepping up I believe. Probably some micro variations. 441326

Wowzers, bb looked amazing. What a beaut!

A vote for April, awesome I'll take it. Wish I could do something other than ride lifts, but I'm with the kids so there's that.

Been a long time since we've been to Big sky in the spring. What's it been like the last few years mid-April conditions wise and are they open midweek until the bitter end? I know this past spring...

Hey, they have a patagonia outlet store there so there's that. Probably not very good deals compared to 20 years ago.

One of my climbing partners back in the day did undergrad there. He was big...

It's surprising he missed his line since it's actually a pretty easy one. He hung on and had a solid roll so makes me think he knows what he's doing to some extent. Overall the mad mile at that flow...

It appears that the road is impassable from each wash out to the next so I imagine one will have to be shored up before they can get the next and so on. I like your optimism but one year sounds...

Wow. That's nuts. That road will be closed for a couple years minimum unless they throw everything at it. We have (less important) roads here in WA that haven't been rebuilt even 10 years later.

Getting a wee bit nervous about my in-laws place on the gallatin. Looks like she is heading to the highest in a hundred years amd they are just a few feet above the river bank.

Juicy. I think it's probably funner around 5000, looks a bit washed out there.

There is a sweet river wide wave a bit below the takeout that forms above 4,500. Hopefully peeps are taking...

Probably because the drunken debauchery at the top of bridger lift got out of hand many moons ago so they decided to kill any fun.

Was just staring up at that today and telling my oldest maybe next year.

Lone tree seemed to hold the best snow on the mountain. Brought my rock board on this trip, but in hindsight didn't need...

I've had exceptional luck the last 4 years coming out there so I really hope I can bring some more flakes from the pnw when we arrive this weekend. The vast majority of my MT core shots were from 20...

Holy fuck, is that what it's up to now? I'll be out there that week using my sister resort freebie passes. My kid's all want to hit the tram but it sounds like a couple more feet are in order? ...

Seriously. Encountering someone else going the opposite way once you were past the dam kept it interesting. Trying to back up in deep snow with a shitty old toyota was not fun. Fingers were always...

My go-to back in the day was axtell's, shed's and cameron's. It was mostly quiet then but who knows now.

Yeah, hopefully they have all the parts they need. Maybe except for that one crucial bolt stuck in a shipping container somewhere. Hot laps on ramcharger for all!

I prefer February but it looks like we may be out there around Christmas this year. Is swifty guaranteed to be up and running by then? I can't imagine not but last time I checked they hadn't even...

Wow, well done!

I saw very few single riders on Swifty this week. Also got asked if a single could ride with us regardless of which line we were in. Kind of weird, but didn't matter to me. The amount of maskless...

Looked reasonable mid-afternoon when I saw it. What was the wait time? I'm not a good judge anymore since I don't know covid capacity. Snowing nicley currently near the corral.

Sad to hear about that. Is that the first fatality in MT this year?

Today at BS was a nice welcome for our first day on the slopes. Didn't venture to challenger today, but hoping it's now filled...

Thanks for the tram info. I lived in bozeman way back so am all too familiar with the andesite aka sandpaper glued to jagged rocks. In fact, a few trips ago out there I managed to break a bone in...

Thanks yeahman, we def do the dropoff most of the time. Hoping to take at least the oldest on his first liberty bowl run if vis is goodish.



Hey man, imma coming from the cascades where where...

We're there all mid-week. I'm liking the temps and forecast as of now! Still bring the rock boards I'm assuming.

Since they are "limiting" crowds this year, has the main parking lot been filling...

Awesome to hear about the snow finally coming for you guys. We'll be in big sky this coming weekend and leaving a nice cycle here so let's see if I can get it to follow me.

Thanks Talisman (and Mattman)! That's a good idea, especially if the trails down there are user friendly and easy to navigate on your own.

We'll be doing BS President's day week. The wife wants to rent snowmobiles for the kids and us from one of the outfitters there for a half-day. We used to ride them right out of her parents garage...

Why the heck haven't you guys gotten any of our systems? Hopefully our fire hose points your way soon.

I'll always remember the 48" in 24 or whatever it was back in 2001. We still heard scraping all over the place from the hardpack below.

Same day 3bar bbq skier died i believe, rip.

I lived in Bozeman in the late 90s early aughts and my wife is from the area. We tease the idea of moving back there, but from our perspective it's changed a fair amount. Since you don't have a...

This was my era at Bridger. I recognize two of those people I think. Man we had some fun last days up there. Does that still go on?

This. My perspective changed after sliding on black ice near island park many years ago and flipping our rig. We narrowly missed a much uglier outcome, but it changed my perspective on winter...

Dang, just hearing about this fire now. I remember kelly and jackson areas being under some evacuations back in 2001, but they never got into the bridgers. Keeping my fingers crossed it all goes...

I think i recognize him from when I worked at the bean. Sounds like a life well lived. Rip