Bridger Did Not suck Today

**XtrPickels** · 02-22-2006, 03:53 PM

Easily Waist deep off the ridge.
Found real good snow all around. Thought the ridge was closed so we shot over to the fingers and hit Z-fan first. Cut across southbowl and made the Hike. Skied Coneheads because we were the first people into it. Good stuff all around. Wind picked up around 2 so we split, had to make it back to teach tonight anyway.

This is officially the first time I've skied anything deeper then 6-8"s. Man o man did I struggle. Got some faceshots, did some faceplants. All in all it was a good day.

Didn't stop to take any pics and the cord pulled outta the helmet cam so I don't have anything to make this thread more then useless. Hopefully someone else will step up.

Saw some Bro's standing around in line. Tall dude Blue helmet. Didn't hear me asking for change. Made me drool, can't wait for 'em to show up in the mail.

**Scooter65** · 02-22-2006, 03:57 PM

Uh....29".... sittin at the top of the ol TGR Snow Report....Had to be great.

Ps showing up at JHMR Tue 28th,for 5 days, the Reverend Horton Heat at the Moose, major weather shift on the way (....according to NOAA). I thinks we'll have a gooooood time.

**RootSkier** · 02-22-2006, 05:08 PM

Finally..... a weather pattern I can get a stiffy about.

**FreakofSnow** · 02-22-2006, 05:42 PM

Days like this make me really really miss Bridger. Today Snowbowl got a whopping 3", dust on crust. You gotta love that BBC. Get in the habit of calling the snowphone every morn and you will reap the rewards.

Couple shots from the 2003 70" storm

Burrowing down

MT attempting to break trail

I'm somewhere under the cold smoke

**ak_powder_monkey** · 02-22-2006, 05:57 PM

FUCK YOU GUYS HOLY DEEPNESS

**Crinkle** · 02-22-2006, 06:00 PM

Originally Posted by XtrPickels

This is officially the first time I've skied anything deeper then 6-8"s. Man o man did I struggle. Got some faceshots, did some faceplants. All in all it was a good day.

man what an experience for you. Learning how to ski the deep goodness. STick with it, you'll be killin it soon enough, laughing back to the lift line

**milton** · 02-22-2006, 06:28 PM

those aren't tracks, those are trenches, omg.

**Alkasquawlik** · 02-22-2006, 06:41 PM

Today was the polar opposite of shitty skiing.

**upallnight** · 02-22-2006, 07:04 PM

Originally Posted by Scooter65

Uh....29".... sittin at the top of the ol TGR Snow Report....Had to be great.

Ps showing up at JHMR Tue 28th,for 5 days, the Reverend Horton Heat at the Moose, major weather shift on the way (....according to NOAA). I thinks we'll have a gooooood time.

Weather shift? From the bit of snow we've been having?

Only 2 types of people try to predict the weather in Jackson...

**montanamike** · 02-22-2006, 08:08 PM

Originally Posted by Alkasquawlik

Today was the polar opposite of shitty skiing.

Yeah, nice turns man, sweet pillow line...

**Catbert** · 02-22-2006, 08:41 PM

Originally Posted by FreakofSnow

Couple shots from the 2003 70" storm

Holy crap... what north bowl road? It looks like there is a little more coverage this year though; the bottom cliffs in the O's are less than 10 feet right now, when completely skied out.

Super dry snow, first really deep cold smoke since opening week.

**Mountainman** · 02-22-2006, 09:20 PM

No skiing. Just redneck sledding.

Me in da white room.

**baseWeldr** · 02-22-2006, 11:03 PM

good to see you made it up top pick...
heard the lift-served BC was already in full effect too, skintrack rebuild time
I find this post intriguing...

Quote:
Originally Posted by Alkasquawlik
Today was the polar opposite of shitty skiing.

Yeah, nice turns man, sweet pillow line...

like I may one day see that pillow line, hmmm

**FreakofSnow** · 02-22-2006, 11:23 PM

Originally Posted by montanamike

Yeah, nice turns man, sweet pillow line...

Where would this said pillow line be? Can't think of too many true pillow lines inbounds at Bridger. Typically, they pillows that do look good would be nothing but one drop straight to rock.

**XtrPickels** · 02-22-2006, 11:42 PM

Originally Posted by Crinkle

man what an experience for you. Learning how to ski the deep goodness. STick with it, you'll be killin it soon enough, laughing back to the lift line

Yeah, moving to Bozeman from Newhampshire has been a big learning experience. Got to follow Baseweldr and some locals around. That definately opened my eyes. Still making improvements every day I head out. The guys I skied with today were solid, but didn't know the place like the back of their hand so I did an Ok job of keeping up. I just hope to get enough days under my belt to keep base and his buddies in sight when he rolls around again.

On one hand I'm thinking it would've been nice to stick to the bowls more so I could have room to get my powder turns a bit more solid, but on the other hand I'm glad I got to experience the tight lines off the ridge.

I know one of my biggest problem is that I'm not aggresive enough; coming across the fall line too much and not getting into a good short turn rhythm...

I'd end up moving so slow across the fall line that I'd submarine to the bottem and then be stuck (thats frustrating when you're buried to mid thigh with feet of powder on top of your skis)

Thoughts/ tricks/ tips on how to get over this?

**fez** · 02-22-2006, 11:52 PM

dont turn.

**Xover** · 02-22-2006, 11:52 PM

MT is everywhere

**alto** · 02-23-2006, 12:53 AM

holy shit

**GheePup** · 02-23-2006, 01:01 AM

Yeah, the Ghee didn't suck today too.

**Daywalker** · 02-23-2006, 01:08 AM

holy deepness batman!

**Alkasquawlik** · 02-23-2006, 01:19 AM

Originally Posted by FreakofSnow

Where would this said pillow line be? Can't think of too many true pillow lines inbounds at Bridger. Typically, they pillows that do look good would be nothing but one drop straight to rock.

A little creativity goes a long long way.

Oh and just a thanks to the Zebra locals for giving all your money to me on the poker table tonight.

what a great fucking day

**FreakofSnow** · 02-23-2006, 01:22 AM

Originally Posted by Alkasquawlik

A little creativity goes a long long way.

No need to be shy, do tell where you laid your head on the said pillow

**Alkasquawlik** · 02-23-2006, 01:28 AM

Iid tell you but I'd have to...

actually I have no friggen idea the name of the area. but creativity played a role, because it was in the middle of a near mogul field. just a bit of poking around did the trick.

mm slayed it today as well, i think i saw his head about a total of 32 seconds today. the rest of the time it was buried in cold smoke.

**baseWeldr** · 02-23-2006, 07:14 AM

^thought y'all may've been elsewhere sledneckin near mtnman (I see his shiteating toothless redneck grin in that sledpic

) to some exotic Nbridgers pillowline while bein' celluloid heroes with slipness or somethin....
(if you do get out that way keep an eye out for bobdog and his personal portable ropetow thingy that runs off some kind of weedwacker engine, patent pending...

)
be careful on the ridge today, all that snow can make it easy to drop off the wrong side... heh

one last repeat pic from the week after turkeyday bridgerbowlcloud snow machine- hansdog coldsmokin' it

edit- pickles, helmetcam? schweet, let's hook it up when I'm back next month... hope you can get out and "study" yer powturns, I've just got a 16yr head start on ya ragin' 'round our 'lil mountain but I was in that boat once....

MT · 02-23-2006, 08:53 AM

Looks like it's skiing nice. Just rolled back from NV last night, and I'm going to head to Bozeman today to see if I can pick up some scraps from the storm over the next few days.

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