Its dumping!

Quite the day that is for sure. I made a really bad decision first run and got sucked into South Bowl. Took forever to get out of there.

I was amazed at how long the powder lasted. And also discovered that Big Stix 106 turn into boat anchors when they are 4 ft under the snow. If you could keep up enough speed they were sweet, but as the snow hit you, you lost speed. Til finally one ski sank, then the next, then you stopped.

Gapers everywhere (Christmas weekend), never saw so many folks looking for skis in one day. oh yeah, and i almost died.

And nice to meet FOS in the grizzly after.

Good god, today was well deep, probably don't get much deeper. I never thought I would say it, but it was almost too deep. People wallowing in the muck everywhere. And this was the cold smoke, about 5 percent density. Like MT said, last years 40 incher may have been better, but no matter cuz its game on now, haven't seen a base like this, this early its shaping up nicely.

After yesterdays debaucle, it could only get better, b/c we didn't open in the thick of the storm. No matter, today was blue bird. Yet again the same possee of locs was in the line early. I arrived shortly after MT and LAD at about 10 with an expected opening of 12. The anticipation was frantic. People were straight up nervous after the briefing from patrol. It was deep, damn deep in not so many words he said.

Flippers was the first pick. MT was a few chairs ahead of me. At the bottom of Flippers the posse stacked up 15 deep, wallowing in the fluff. I came in hot and was able to move to the front of the pack, RIch busted the first mole track out the bottom. Next up MT, LAD and I hit the cliff band on Flippers, each boosting a 20 footer, sticking em clean.

The rest of the day was over the head where you could get enough speed. Tomorrow should be better. Good to finally meet fez.

Guess what I'll be calling in SICK! Oh yeah, ITS SNOWING AGAIN AND 3 MORE FEET ARE EXPECTED. IF you have free time on your hands and you are not in your car driving towards Montana, well your loss :D

MT shredding it
http://tetongravity.com/forums/attac...1&d=1195578410

Snorkeled

http://tetongravity.com/forums/attac...1&d=1195578410

Vid of the day -- http://www.bridgerbowl.com/fs_dailyImages_qt.php -- Doesn't do it justice

Couple more for your viewing pleasure

http://tetongravity.com/forums/attac...1&d=1184877711

http://tetongravity.com/forums/attac...1&d=1184877711

http://tetongravity.com/forums/attac...1&d=1184877711

Damn dude

I hadn't even considered flippers. It's always been one of my favorite runs, but since it's over on ze knob I always forgot about it on a pow day. Every time I hit it, I tried to imagine what it'd be like to be able to charge it full throttle and point it, blindly leaping in. The landing and bumpfest afterwards always stopped me from doing anything resembling that, and you'd have to have a pretty sizable day to pull it off. And you got that - lucky fuckers.

Anyway, enjoy it, spin a lap for me. I'm working all this week, 7 days straight of 12 hour graveyard shifts. Yee-ha!

on another note, surprising it was crowded...I usually found winter breaks to be the lonliest times at bridger, because all my friends were out of town (university students usually clear out for the breaks), and I'd sit at the access gate to the ridge waiting for people to head up that I could piggyback with. I'd sit there for an hour or two and say fuck it (and I couldn't get any patrollers to go up...lazy fucks...). Kinda sucked.

rip it up boys.

You boys keep the reports coming while I'm gone, and spin a lap or two topside for me. Gonna try and catch a few hours of sleep now, and then I'm Audi 5000.

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You boys keep the reports coming while I'm gone, and spin a lap or two topside for me. Gonna try and catch a few hours of sleep now, and then I'm Audi 5000.

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foot of new as of 5am.

Flights can be missed.

Who's gonna be up at bridger tomorrow?

I'm too beat to do a write up now. The day was better than yesterday. 14" new ontop of the 71" the day before. The snow settled a little bit (a little), and made it somewhat more manageable. Neck deep all day long. White room. Saw Slipp in line, Battle of the Fluff II coming soon!

This pretty much sums up the day

http://tetongravity.com/forums/attac...1&d=1184877908 -- Note the cold smoke cloud in the middle, theres a person under there ripping silently.

6 more on top of the 14 from yesterday on top of a whole shitload more

i woke up shaking with anticipation, 2 red bulls are only going to make it worse.

once in a lifetime.

the people that sit around me at work keep wondering why i have a blank expression on my face and keep shaking my noggin' in disbelief. i can't even image.

FUKKIN' GO OUT AND GET THE GOODS!!!!!!! :D :D

slippy hope yer gettin some footage but couldn't blame anyone for just skiing that shit... it'll be good for filmin for awhile with piles like that... I'm in town in two weeks- maybe another helmet cam session in some lines rarely filled in... yafuckinhoo what a week

Hit north bowl for a warm up and immedietly came back and went of DRCS cliffs. Went and did a high t lap and went over to pierre's knob to a surpising opening of the fingers. made a mad dash to the trail and got the first finger only to find the trailbreaking stopped there. said fuck it and went down the first finger for some over the head, straightline tracks. hurried and got back up on the trail and the lead people handn't got much further. so we did the first finger again. god down and went off superman. didn't feel like i went big enough so went back and hit it bigger this time. decided to go and hit the ridge.
C route was the only thing open. Wend over to the nose and dropped in and stopped dead. it was too deep and there wasn't enough pitch. After struggling for a long time finally made it down to some tracks and made extremely deep turns.
For the rest of the day we just went around trying to find a little bit of untracked. Tomorrow should still be could. When the rest of the ridge opens it will be going off!!!!

oh yeah. blue skies all day long

I just plotzed.

Way to reap the pow.

Mountainman is a sheephumper.

http://www.biglines.com/photos/blpic16492.jpg


That is all.

bizump for the beyotches

Let's hit DP, shorter line than Bridger, whirlpools, and maybe peek at south bowl.

DEEP, DEEP, holy-fuggin DEEP!!

Think they'll open the ridge today? Maybe... prolly fingers first... let's ride PK

Holy shit it's open, let's go!

Wow, we're not even to the first finger and we caught up with the pack already.

Let's ski the first, hike back up and get in line behind these guys again.

Hey up there, want us to spell ya breakin trail? No? ok...

Let's ski the second then...

Ok, back in line, let's ski the second again...

Holy shit, are all of ya skiing the third? Serious?

OMG, OMG, OMG, the snow is above my fucking head. I can't even see the horizon line uphill unless I lean waaayyy back..

This could be a big mistake. In order to take one step up, I have to whack the pow aside above my head with my pole, swipe it away, still above my head, with my hands, get it to nipple height, elbow it down, knee it down, stomp it ten times, then step.

Let's keep goin.

You wanna drop first?

uuhhhh.... YEAH!!!!

Don't stop, don't turn, this is serious shit.

HOOOLLEEEE SHIT!!!!!!


SOOOO DEEEEEP!!!


don't turn, keep balance, hands up.

If I auger in now, I'm toast.

Wow, fucking amazing.

Wanna do it again?

Hella ya!!!

I've got vid of this cycle on mini DV maybe sometime I'll get around to uploading/editing it. I actually rode a TGR Hall of Fame powder dump. had a 2wd truck and rallying through the backstreets of BZX and not gettin stuck took some speed. I got stuck twice. But rallying was fun.

Just imagine how many pages this thread would have been if it happened in Summit/Vail I 70 area.

Hi All,

I have been pretty busy the past few weeks , but I am going to be spending more time on the board with all you guys and gals ...

I would like to get my ask Merc. blog going again also ...




Merc.