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Thread: Beartooth Pass conditions?
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05-21-2022, 12:55 PM #626
I'm going to keep Sunday/Monday on my radar too. Weather pattern looks fairly active but it's still a ways out so who knows.
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05-21-2022, 02:55 PM #627
Also preemptively planning a beartooth jaunt early that week. Likely Monday for me, but could be a question mark depending on how busy it is
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05-21-2022, 04:13 PM #628
How busy can it be when they are closed? I'll do bfast sandwiches if I'm heading there.
If the weather sucks I'm out..
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05-21-2022, 04:57 PM #629
I remember Memorial Day 2020 being quite busy! Folks all over, and the basin is just a fraction of the traffic. The good steep skiing near Reefer Ridge and the top of the pass is what I’m after. Gardiner Headwall might as well be a ski area some days out there!
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05-21-2022, 09:05 PM #630Registered User
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I have seen moguls on Gardiner, albeit small ones.
IIRC, the first two springs I was out there--2015 and 16--the Basin didn't open. (I'm 100% sure on 15, not completely sure about 2016.) It was still a heck of a scene, and that was before half of Colorado moved to Bozeman to escape the Californians who moved to Colorado.
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05-21-2022, 09:43 PM #631
Lol^
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05-23-2022, 03:58 PM #632
Weather looks meh at best this coming weekend. I might take a ride over the following sun Mon.
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06-01-2022, 04:48 PM #633Registered User
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22 inches forecasted for red lodge mtn...?
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06-02-2022, 02:44 PM #634
Yeah, it happened.
Another cut off low (Similar to the storm in late April) was spinning over that area the last three days just nuking the Beartooths.
My bet was they would open the highway sometime today, but I haven’t checked on it. Should be good skiing up there this weekend.
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06-02-2022, 02:48 PM #635
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06-08-2022, 06:29 PM #636
Looks like they might try to open the road by this weekend, but then more weather coming in Sunday...looking at maybe Tuesday-Thursday next week as a possibility? What's the word?
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06-09-2022, 06:31 AM #637
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06-09-2022, 10:16 AM #638
With gas being so fucking expensive I'm hesitant to even drive to Red Lodge.
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06-09-2022, 07:16 PM #639
Agreed. On the way back I was getting worse MPG than my 250hp boat in AK when I lived there. 5 fucking miles per gallon with a headwind, truck camper, trailer. Cussing the entire way.
Need an E-car to commute to ski this winter.....but none of them have the range in the winter for where I live.
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06-10-2022, 09:54 AM #640Registered User
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pass opened yesterday
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06-13-2022, 07:18 AM #641
Unreal. Vibes to the Red Lodge area.
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06-13-2022, 10:10 AM #642
Decided to risk it and book a site at Rattin campground next week Monday-Wednesday. Seemed like the safest option given all the flooding going on right now. Looks like the weather should stabilize somewhat, hopefully things will calm down by then. Planning to ski one day if it's feasible, probably drive over to the Lamar for a day too, assuming the road is open.
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06-13-2022, 10:18 AM #643
Northern Yellowstone closed.
https://www.facebook.com/10006928965...1982730121380/
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06-13-2022, 10:19 AM #644Registered User
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https://www.facebook.com/10000903015...27419209564475
https://www.facebook.com/jackie.gerd...6806798047082/
Northern end of Yellowstone also hit hard, Gardiner reportedly not currently accessible by car.
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06-13-2022, 10:22 AM #645Registered User
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Current reports suggest that a lot of bridges are out. I wouldn't expect normal travel to be restored for weeks at best, and some stuff probably will take months.
Part of me wishes I was there and could help more directly, part of me is very glad I'm not, I already got to live through one disaster-level flooding event (Killington during Irene). Water shut off town-wide is a big f'ing deal, as is multiple towns being cut off from vehicle access.
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06-13-2022, 10:28 AM #646
Loss of water pressure means they have to flush the entire system. Truly a disaster. My wife is an engineer for a city here and her mouth fell open when she saw that not including bridges which is mostly her jam..
Going to be like 106 degrees here today with heat index. Derecho possible east of here. Can't escape the fucked weather.
Looks like the boys of BB made a great decision to sit this year out and we just feel so privileged to have been able to hit lift served there the last couple of years.
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06-13-2022, 10:39 AM #647
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06-13-2022, 10:47 AM #648Registered User
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More video from in town:
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06-13-2022, 10:58 AM #649
F'ing nasty. I have to admit sitting up here in the high desert where we got a quarter-inch it did not really register with me how bad the situation is.
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06-13-2022, 11:13 AM #650Registered User
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Thankfully, there are a lot of resourceful and community-minded people in Red Lodge, so I have no doubt they'll pull together and deal with the short-term issues as well as can be. Some people are going to take serious financial (who the heck carries flood insurance in Red Lodge?) and emotional losses, and hopefully their families, friends and neighbors will help them out.
I'm more worried about what happens to a town that normally brings in tens of thousands of money-spending tourists during the summer if it takes a full summer (or more) to restore the road-access issues both in town and in the surrounding area. "Normal" washouts can be filled and driven on, but bridges that get compromised or even fully washed out can take a lot more work.
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