LOL, Ok I get it.

Who is Russell Chatham?

Wow, nice pic, I was in that fog bank, and the colors were much more diffuse.

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All four tires off the road, strong work! Permafrost claims another victim. :FIREdevil

I imagine a giant, gregarious, and hyperactive dog with a genetic predisposition to herd anything that moves. LOL!

It used to be, that the scheduled opening was the day after Thanksgiving, but they have moved it back because of the lack of snow that early. Now they shoot for a week into December. It is always...

Part of their contract with Sky Trac, is that Sky Trac is responsible for all maintenance for the first two years. It seems odd that there would be issues with it, however, a short-cut by Sky Trac...

There are two types of skiers, those who fret about the conditions, and those who go skiing.

I haven't seen what you describe.

Having become somewhat involved in houseless activism over the past six months in Missoula, and having learned a bit about our city's government from attending...

I expect Snowbowl will open as usual, the Morrises having done at least the bare minimum needed to pass inspection.

I like Carlino, he's a well meaning kid, but pretty high strung, and prone to sprouting barbs when frustrated. Kristen Jordan is one that sees the actual needs of the whole community, and cares.

I want to qualify that not all on the council are blithe in their disregard for the need for affordable housing (there are at least a couple conscience driven councilors), but the dispensations to...

Well, currently over 90% of families in Missoula don't have the income sufficient to buy a house at the average asking price, and property is being bought up by out of state money, sometimes creating...

RIP Greg Seitz.

I learned today that Greg was killed recently in a logging accident. He was a genuinely good-hearted person, and one of the elite skiers, both tele and alpine, at Snowbowl. He...

Funny, I bought a "new" (used but great condition) set up with Dynafits and DPS skis a few years back, and it saved me all of 8 oz. over my old Fritsche set up. While a lot is made of the benefit of...

Well Stuck, I recommend getting in your car, and while driving, think of all the most frustrating elements of your life, and scream as loud as you can until you are in tears. Then break down and cry...

As long as you park on the creek side you won't be in the way of in and out traffic.

During the season, uphill traffic is closed on area, during lift operating hours, as per the special use permit, and that's why the Neffland approach was developed by folks who exclusively hike for...

You can do it that way, or you can just park outside the gate, go up through the base area, and climb to ski wherever the snow's untracked. The season is over, no one will hassle you.

Incidentally, winter doesn't seem to be done yet.

Tuesday:
Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 30. South wind 10 to 20 mph becoming west northwest in the morning. Winds could gust...

The adult was outside of the halo, the very small child on the inside, the back of the chair swung back toward the halo tilting the riders heads forward away from the halo, leaving the back of the...

Mock if you will (how impressive), I'm a lot of things, but a liar isn't one of them.

So yesterday was the memorial for Ray up at the LRI, which was an amazing gathering of hundreds of people who knew him. One of the most powerful community events I've experienced in life. People I...

https://www.fox61.com/article/news/local/ski-lift-fall-boy-new-hartford-ski-sundown/520-45126c57-822e-47d4-a691-84e56173f240
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Misogyny? Are you daft? You think it a woman hating thing to acknowledge that mothers get mad at fathers when they hear their kids were at risk? Wow, that's a stretch.

FYI, my son's mother...

I can play the same game Root, how do you know this wasn't the case? I've heard the father's version, and I've heard through the grapevine from people I trust more than the offended party (not...

Oh, well that's a horse of a different color.

Thanks for the kind word, it's just really weird, I saw him almost every day this winter, and now never again, fuck.

As much as I have enjoyed watching Stuck in the "Snowbowl apologist" hot-seat, rider error was involved in the Snow Park incident, as it was with the La Velle derail a couple years ago. This...

MT can't handle any more sophisticated thoughts than "Snowbowl bad." MT also has been known to assert falsehood ( like Pat had anything to do with the Transporter's rams getting damaged) to...

It's good that a full review of the chairs will happen. Sounds like the local FS is finally getting around to, getting Snowbowl to get around to, doing what was needful. I suppose forty people...

It's good that a full review of the chairs will happen. Sounds like the local FS is finally getting around to, getting Snowbowl to get around to, doing what is needful. I suppose forty people...

He was one of the most diehard skiers at Snowbowl, anyone who skis daily, or has been around long, knew him.

The man who died was a good friend, as is the man driving. Please don't offer opinions if you are just going to pile on. It's a really bad day for the community.

PS: The Missoulian's is a poor...

That's right, go biking in droves, skiing is so over!!!

I know, right?! :party::party::party:

If he really just blamed the liftie, then I agree, but we only have McLeod's version of what the Patrol Director said, so assuming the accuracy of recall of a traumatized and outraged party is...

Today was as good a day of skiing as I have ever had, fifteen laps on TV, great deep snow, freshies most of every run. The profound thing about The Bowl currently, is that the lower mountain is as...

W00t w00t!!!

It seems like the Morrises have achieved a new peak of bad PR. You'd think a lawyer would know enough not to say antagonistic things to reporters, especially when everything he's saying is going to...

There is a yurt down that road that people stay in, and access the area from, sometimes.

This has been a great storm cycle, I would have mentioned how redonkulously awesome it's been since Friday, but folks seemed so happy talking about the lift. Until this afternoon, the parking lot...

While the plaintiff angry father said that, I expect that the impact was with the halo, or with the halo support, which, since the aforementioned halo bending, is the most likely place for a swinging...

Most problems in loading lifts are due to skiers doing it wrong. Warren Miller used to put a segment of skiers failing on lifts in every movie. Every ski area has lift loading fails, where kids or...

Oh, BTW, all that fun controversy and casting aspersions made me forget to mention, lots of snow, buried sun-crust, very few skiers yestidddy.

Ridiculous!!! After forty oor so folks bounced their heads off of the first couple Halos, and complained about it like sissies, they hung pink tape off'n them (a more than fair extra warning, even...

We used to refer to it as crowd control, but I have come to prefer the term "attrition".

Snowbowl certainly needs to give better training to lifties, and yes, as Jenks said, the Snow Park lift...

Yes that will probably be quite early, unless there is a huge amount of new snow, it's March, most folks are done with skiing.

Most of the mountain was bad, but Griz Chute was corned out, all...

I can't get my mind around how that guy stayed on the chair while that much damage was done to it.

Sure and begorrah, it be Saint Paddy's Day, may the luck of the Irish be with you. Erin go bragh!

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I just skied Tree Chute yesterday, cool pic.