What year(s) did BSSP and MLBSP stop using artillery for avalanche control? I know where the BSSP artillery piece was located, but where was the MLP gun mount?

Thanks for setting me straight on the ownership of these two ultra-luxury real estate holdings around Big Sky.

I could be wrong but I think the One & Only at MLB is the first O&O property in the US. O&O has an international reputation of "crazy opulence" and the gondola is one way to outperform the Montage...

A handsome and wise former patroller once shared the virtues of JB Weld for repairing core shots and early season damage became so much easier to manage.

I've been around enjoying the better than last season ski conditions. A week ago I did see Yeahman and posse ripping up Andesite.

Likely a bad call but I will be skiing other areas of the mountain Friday. The MLB opener was tempting until I heard the first hour was VIP skiing and then the little people can load at 10:00 AM. ...

Would it be easier just to leave the lights up year round?

Damn Swimmy 34-0! No 870 required just post this picture on the corner of the driveway and Lizzy Borden will take her axe to the next house.

Seriously though, bear spray in the bedside drawer is...

This visiting teen's first trout and he was thrilled. In the past three days he has caught mountain whitefish, brown, brook, other rainbow and cutthroat trout. The first one was caught with a...

The only advice I can add is do not ride the subway while your toe is healing. I had two broken toes on the mend and after two weeks a large person stepped on my foot when the subway car lurched. ...

More amazing pictures, no wonder you have a gallery admiring your fishing. Thank you for sharing Swimmy!

Swimmy looks good in front of the camera too! To get critical though; Swimmy's hands do look better holding a large trout.

Nice work!

Don't forget bear spray. Saw this print on a hike yesterday and is likely the biggest Grizzly fore paw print I have ever seen.

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Damn for less than three day tickets at Big Sky at rack rate you have three season passes!

How many season passes are you getting for the 2024-2025 ski season? What does a midweek Lutsen pass run?

Turns out bass poppers from the 1960's still work fine. Thanks Harry for sharing some of your stash of antique poppers!

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Nice tan lines! Your buddy's jetboat looks a lot like one of the Gates of the Mountain tour vessels.

Been in CA for a few weeks doing a bit of work and some fishing in a cement pond with sky blue dyed water and lots of eager large mouth bass. Thanks to a few coaching tips from Harry I have landed a...

How is your shoulder doing?

QFT, Django with Djongo while hard to say repeatedly is a unique experience.

Some fresh snow, sun, spin drift refills and not many people getting after the goods made for a surprisingly good ski day, I am sorry you missed it. I am sure the Billionaires Club appreciated your...

Very interesting TED talk on learning to be fluent in a foreign language in six months and most of what the speaker presented aligned with my experience of learning a foreign language as an adult. ...

Steamboat taking one for the team...

Thanks for explaining the relative meaning of the metric wind run. his is my firs ime considering "wind run."
The easiest way to spot the difference between wind speed and wind run is to consider...

To celebrate my FIL's 90th birthday we went fishing in the Gulf of Mexico and caught 44 pounds of vermilion snapper, released many red snapper and tossed back small vermillion and white snapper. ...

Isn't this one of the confirmed signs of the coming apocalypse?

Great photos and text about times past at Big Sky. Were control charges manually dropped in the high aspect parts of before the original tram? I know that artillery was used at one point.

PSA: MT FWP 2024 fishing and hunting license applications opened online today. Good luck to those applying for additional tags in the lottery.

You should have BB all to yourself with everyone at work or in lectures.

I expected Big Sky to be a zoo as you predicted and it was the calmest powder day in a long time. Even the base area lifts had tiny lines at peak times. Maybe the icy roads enticed people to head...

Very sad news of this boy's passing and especially tough on the parents. May the family, friends, classmates and first responders find peace.

QFT. Not to be Dougie Downer but the local MT snow pack is again in retrograde from sun and warmer than usual temperatures.

Great pictures of the quiet side of Big Sky! The Lone Moose lift has a drive that works now without going into an uncontrolled over speed condition and letting smoke out of the control boards. A...

Should be a great day for pictures in the sun! The temperature is -4*F at the moment.

There should be plenty left tomorrow even if these flurries don't deliver as there is some breeze in the alpine. Holiday visitors are around but don't seem to be tracking out much.

That crown looked like it was 3 or 4 feet thick based on the patrollers being average height. I tried taking a picture of the patrollers with the crown and not being Swimmy the photo looks like a...

Some people get double duty out of a snowmobile helmet.
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That is some old time MN work ethic there! Who says people don't want to work hard?

Of course it is, I am tied up with work this morning. With the snow continuing maybe the afternoon will be more than Swimmy and WRG's sloppy seconds.

Not Harry but he skied with me this morning and headed south just after high noon. Sorry we missed you.

This is going to be great!

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Just be aware the main base area had stupid long lift lines during the prime morning hours yesterday. The good news 2 more inches fell last night to sweeten up the frozen base.

Good to have a few afternoon turns with Harry with today after spending some time reconnecting. It looks like Harry and SingleCross brought some snow with them for the next few days. Looking...

Shameless plug for skijoring so WRG will hook me up with a beverage:

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Fingers crossed those coming from WY, WI and ME bring some accumulating snow with them.

You were expecting more snow?

Lots of people skied Big Scree today including me and yes it was warm up and refreeze situation.

The ratio of skis to snowboards seems off in that picture of super garage organization. Is there another wall of just snowboards?

Water is the key to supporting rampant and poorly planned growth in the intermountain west. LA has a 400 mile aqueduct to take water from the Owens Valley so people can wash cars and irrigate their...

With the long tram lines of the past it was hard for me to justify getting a gold pass. Walk on trams this morning was worth the up charge to ski an totally empty Liberty Bowl to the Bavarian Forest...