2012 Montana Conditions, Stoke and Whatev Thread

[byates1]

Sounds closed up thar. Tracks on the m. About 16" in the lot at bbowl.

[SUPERIOR]

Skied the M!

Got stuck in M parking lot!

Canyon was stop and go, and many folks in the ditch. Tons of semis and moving trucks too… crazy that they went for it.

Firefighter told me 3 feet of snow in the parking lot at the Gallatin Canyon FD when he got to work.

Maybe hit Bridger tomorrow… if it’s not dumping rain.

[swimmy]

Awesome ^^^

[evasive_MT]

Be sure the roads are open.

The Forest was planning a meeting this afternoon near Neihart that was moved online. They reported 2+ feet, power out in Neihart and Stanford, and trees down over the road.

[Bunion 2020]

[byates1]

Just drove over Bozeman pass to paradise valley, the pass is fine w slow traffic. Only 6-8" of snow. Ppl must have been shit showing hard up there yesterday.

[byates1]

https://www.kbzk.com/news/local-news...-than-10-hours

[yeahman]

That would truly suck.

[toastybroski]

Onion park snotel near neihart showing 52'' storm total. Crazy.

[Norseman]

I know your app shows "new snow amount" but I think it's displaying total snow depth.

NWCC site shows 30" storm snow at Onion Park, 17" S Fk Shields, 24" Shower Falls

[Norseman]

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[Gnar_Shralp406]

Right under the lift and not a single mogul! I could get used to this!

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[toastybroski]

Good catch. It seemed to be working the other day. Oh well.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Northern latitude peeps, clear skies and a good chance for a show tonight.

https://www.gi.alaska.edu/monitors/aurora-forecast

[Gnar_Shralp406]

Dry and lightly breezy at Copper City today

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[byates1]

Quiet time.

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[Bunion 2020]

Should be good No Lights viewing out that a way.

Trail work scheduled for tomorrow and Sunday.

[byates1]

Anyone near Bozeman have a fluid extractor pump for changing your diff fluid w/o cracking the cap?

Also, the ford dealership quoted me 600$ to change spark plugs, they charge 240$ for the plugs and 170$ per hr for 2 hrs labor. Doesn't include the red rag either. That's extra

Motorcraft plugs are 7.20 ea from O'Reilly's. The plugs couldn't be easier to reach in my Ecoboost. No covers nothing.

Unreal. I think I'll just go w the 42$ self plug swap.

[byates1]

https://moneywise.com/real-estate/re...re-montana-man

If this guy is paying 8k a yr in property taxes his place has to be worth 3-4 mil. Probably paid 300k for it. Sell the fucking thing bank the profits build a small simple place live stress free.

[usdatele]

Helena homies, what's going to be rideable this weekend? My most favorite roomie wants to get out instead of going down to the cookie sled fest. We had a sick teaser ride at corbly last weekend and this snow has been detrimental to our decision making....

Bummed I missed the M shred superior! We just did a post work beer canyawn with a pack of federally protected wolves (ive got the papers, man). Not one skimo in sight, they were prolly tryna road bike up bridger canyon that day.

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[byates1]

Far out man

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[yeahman]

Helena homies, what's going to be rideable this weekend?

I think most of the south hills trails have dried out from the soaking we got last week, however I'd wait until Sunday as there is a big race on Saturday.

https://pricklypearlt.org/events/don...rail-run-2024/

[Whiteroom_Guardian]

Got the old DSLR out last night and braved the cold with covid (yes it's still a thing). Not terrible results for being in my driveway. I don't have a super high end lens/camera. If feeling better we may take a drive tonight to get past the light pollution.

No color correction, just some dehazing and a bit of sharpening.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

We drove out to the Shafthouse trailhead and it really blew up between midnight and 1pm. Only a few other cars at the trailhead, but lots of people on the side of Bridger canyon rd all the way back.

I imagine a lot of people went up to Springhill.

[Whiteroom_Guardian]

There were even people in my "neighborhood" who drove out from town. I guess Springhill was also mobbed.

I think tonight we will have to drive somewhere pretty far.