TR; this last weekend at Bridger

[workinforturns]

hey there crazyskir05, i heard that you like to take your Gots and LP's and caress them at night with your teddy bear. is this true?

oh, and i talked with some people up at BB the other day and heres a crazy rumor they told me; Deer Park lift is still in the air as to if the new cog that they bought from europe is truly compatable and fuctional to hold full capacity. If not they may take out Bridger lift and put a 3 person detachable lift(dont know the techy name) in from the bottom of boot pack hill below DPC to the top where Bridger lift is now.

[Sirshredalot]

workin -

I am fairly sure that DP is not able to operate at full capacity at present, hence the every-other-chair policy. The riblet lifts are old and there is some concern about having more parts problems like that. Any scrapping of DP and the current Bridger lift would be several seasons off and would be part of some scheme to improve skier "flow" around the mountain. A detachable would be unlikely in that spot both because maintenance costs are high and because detachables don't do well in wind.

As far as I understand it, the current positioning of the upper-mountain lifts will be placed under review as the expansion happens and it becomes clear where skier "flow" could be improved.

[Bozone]

True true, the prospect of replacing the Bridger and DP lifts with one new lift is an option that is on the table with the powers that be at Bridger Bowl. Things, unfortunately perhaps, move very slowly and it seems unlikely that we will see any other new projects(aside from slushman's) for 2-3 seasons or so.

[XtrPickels]

True true, the prospect of replacing the Bridger and DP lifts with one new lift is an option that is on the table with the powers that be at Bridger Bowl. Things, unfortunately perhaps, move very slowly and it seems unlikely that we will see any other new projects(aside from slushman's) for 2-3 seasons or so.

Its far from unfortunate in my opinion. I don't mind the DP lift being at half capacity... hell there's never a line there anyway, it could run at quarter capacity and you wouldn't notice. Well, maybe lexi... it would slow down his whirlpool laps.
I love the "slow to change", maybe I'm just resistant or stubborn but anytime I hear something new I feel and a little . I can't believe that someone bought land adjacent and are going to develop the area "for the benefit of BB"... when its really for the good of the leachers who bought the land.

[hick]

Its far from unfortunate in my opinion. I don't mind the DP lift being at half capacity... hell there's never a line there anyway, it could run at quarter capacity and you wouldn't notice. Well, maybe lexi... it would slow down his whirlpool laps.
I love the "slow to change", maybe I'm just resistant or stubborn but anytime I hear something new I feel and a little . I can't believe that someone bought land adjacent and are going to develop the area "for the benefit of BB"... when its really for the good of the leachers who bought the land.

Gotta make Bridger look like every other fuckin' ski "resort" (ew, I sound bitter). Leachers is much to kind of a name for these people...

[BigDumbRedhead]

I gotta admit I like the skiing access the new chair is bringing, but the other proposed development around the base turns my stomach.

[mtcham]

If we can get the Pickle Barrel to magically reappear I would like to have the Crosscut Ranch back too. Used to love going to the restaurant and dodging all the bears getting to the car after dinner.

And while we're at it could we bring back the old A frame at Deer Park, and the horse drawn wagon on Main St, and when the most expensive house in Boz was $70,000, and the western shops downtown, and when everybody had guns in their pickup windows, and when the Powderhorn wasn't a yuppy store, and when the lots behind the mall were $2000, and 4 corners didn't exist, and people didn't drive like dipshits, and only a handful of people lived at Big Sky, and what happened to N. 19th being a greenbelt with no commercial buildings allowed, and ....

But if we can't have any of that I too will settle for the Slushman's lift.

Bozeman started losing it's soul when Walmart came to town. They knew way ahead of any of us what was in our future. Greed, unfortunately, is the prevailing mindset now. One can smell it in the air, and it wreaks!

[Sirshredalot]

Amen to that, MT. Replaced perhaps the best bar in town with perhaps the worst.

[KoKopeLLi]

Amen to that, MT. Replaced perhaps the best bar in town with perhaps the worst.

No I think that bar is The R Bar

[lobstahmeatwad]

First of all the pickle barrel is atrocious garbage. Worst sandwich ever. Cheapest meat, bread, cheese, crap. Second, the 317 is definitely ghey but free drinks make me go there on occasion.(I know 5 people in this town and one happens to work there now)
The Zeb was quaint but disgusting, felt like I smoked a pack 5 min. Plenty of dive bars to choose from just not on main.
Progress is a good thing if you embrace it and make it work. If you shun it, and crap on it, it becomes what you hate. You can't work against it you need to make it work for you. That's why downtown sucks, to many people not taking an active role to make it better and just complaining, "why can't it be like it used to", because it can't. That's what happens when a place gets discovered, it changes. Make it better. Don't try and make it the same, it won't work.
-end rant

[KoKopeLLi]

That's why downtown sucks, to many people not taking an active role to make it better and just complaining, "why can't it be like it used to", because it can't. That's what happens when a place gets discovered, it changes. Make it better. Don't try and make it the same, it won't work.
-end rant

Wait until Ted's Montana Grill lights up two neon buffalo on the baxter

[Jumper Bones]

So...what makes 317 so lame? Hit me.

I have my beefs, but I want to see others'. I do vastly prefer it to the pourhouse though, and honestly after some of the places I've visited elsewhere over the past couple years, I can live with 317.

[fez]

i dont know what makes the 317 lame.
good bartenders, probably best selection of irish whiskey in town.
good TVs mlb package, ncaa bball package, pretty much always have a game on. great place to watch a game.

the zeb was a great dive bar, and it's too bad that bozeman is losing those downtown, but at the same time, used to be that EVERY bar downtown was a dive bar. at least now there are options if you want to go someplace a little nicer. I would have much rathered see the 317 replace the R or the crystal or the canner for sure.

and i agree with whoever said the R bar is worse.

and RE the pickle barrell, i worked in restaurants for many years. I know what goes on. maybe three times in my life have i been grossed out as the customer in a restaurant. one was at the pickle barrell.

[Yonder_River]

Ted's Montana Grill is going in the Baxter huh, that might actually last more than a year there. Do they still have Baxter parties when the whole building is swinging? Those were pretty fun, I remember some good Halloweens there. I too enjoyed many a fine (read drunk) night at the Zebra upstairs, too bad it's gone. Change sucks sometimes, but then you get used to it. My wife remembers when the R bar was the ONLY place to go on the weekends. Curious, does anyone still Scoop it up or is that place dead again, it seemed to go in cycles with that place.

[Bozone]

Ted's Montana Grill is going in the Baxter huh, that might actually last more than a year there. Do they still have Baxter parties when the whole building is swinging? Those were pretty fun, I remember some good Halloweens there. I too enjoyed many a fine (read drunk) night at the Zebra upstairs, too bad it's gone. Change sucks sometimes, but then you get used to it. My wife remembers when the R bar was the ONLY place to go on the weekends. Curious, does anyone still Scoop it up or is that place dead again, it seemed to go in cycles with that place.

--No unfortunately the big parties at the baxter have fallen away as a thing of the past. New ownership I suppose, though they couldnt even keep the Robin open so what did they know anyways. I will throw my two cents into the ring, and say that yes 317 is a bit of knobby joint at times, it does have better service than the pour house, which in the last few years has acquired some of the worst bartending imaginable. I as well miss the days of the old zeb. It will be interesting to see the way bars like the scoop will change and probably come back around in 2009 when the statewide smoking ban goes into place.

[corn dog]

Haha this page is a microcosm of Bozeman itself. The rednecks, the urban east coasters, and Fez deftly straddling the fence, blending harmoniously with both

[XtrPickels]

317 is a sweet place to get good Irish whiskey. They previously had some good irish beer, but that has disappeared. I enjoy the place for heading out with a couple friends and drinking a few good drinks. What it is not is a place to get rowdy. Its too expensive and not the right atmosphere, which is where the zebra and the barmudatriangle and the like come in. Different stroke for different folks... or different nights.

Now onto the picklebarrel.... Their steak and cheese is pretty freakin good, but the rest of the sandwiches are hit and miss. I've had many a good one and many a bad.

In other news I suppose that I am part of the problem. I don't want Bozeman to change but I don't remember when 19th didn't exist. I don't remember when Huffine lane was dirt...

[muted]

The Pickle Barrel on the hill was a great place for beers and live music, that's why it sucked when they got booted. Who cares if their sandwiches were any good, you went their to socialize and it was a fun place.

Funny, a lot of the recent downtown changes are directly related to please people who thought The Zebra was 'quaint' and think places like the Pickle Barrel is 'atrocious garbage'.

[Lexi-Bell]

the jukebox rocked.

Best.

Jukebox.

EVAR!!

Oh yeah, skied a foot of pow @ BB today WOOT!!

[jeremiahyawnson]

So... I hate to be the one to bring this back to skiing, but Skiing today was epic today.
3 inches at 5 and 8inches at 8:30

Sure had me scrambling to get out of classes.

[Tink]

To concur and bring this debacle of bar debate back to reality; the skiing was phenomenal. Muchas Gracias to crazyskir05 for some wonderful directions. The girls thank you. We made some awesome turns.

Who doesn't love Chuck? The man was awesome. But then again, some of the chicas down at 317 are pretty cute too, so why you boys are complaining is beyond me. You'd think you wouldn't be opposed to a bar stocked with a bevy of attractive women serving you booze especially in Bozeman where the guy to girl ratio presents some obstacles. And MT, if you hate the 317 so much, why is that one of the only two bars I ever see you at? We all miss the Zebra, but whining about it won't bring it back. Instead hit up the skate party on N. 5th this summer and have a drink at the old bar which they import especially for this occasion.

And the Pickle Barrel. As a local I was raised on the cheese steak. The lack of the PB at Bridger is something I lament each time I try to find non-fried food for lunch, but I also chalk up to economic feasibility. Some things just aren't what they used to be/or possible. Anybody else remember $1.50 fries and the midways?

Tis better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. At least for those of us with the pleasure of experiencing that which no longer exists, we have blissful memories of stiff drinks and greasy sandwiches.

[leroy jenkins]

Boy I sure wish this stoke thread was the way it used to be when people still posted stoke instead of bitching about the bars in town.

Just joking around. BDR pretty much summed up my opinion of the development. I like the expansion, I think its absolutely necessary. How crowded BB gets on weekends is just unreal.

However, the pluses of the new terrain don't even come close to outweighing the fact that bridger bowl of all places is going to become a base villaged resort. I still can't even believe it. I'm sure years from now we'll tell the youngins about how it used to be.

I'd post some stoke to get this thread back on track, but I don't have any recent pics. One of you lazy fuckers get on that.

[Jumper Bones]

I'd post some stoke to get this thread back on track, but I don't have any recent pics. One of you lazy fuckers get on that.

Otay!

[Skipig25]

bridger gully was real fun today. left classes at about 9:15, and skied till close. and I am tired. today was a good day.

[leroy jenkins]

Otay!

That is just not fair. Like, at all.

For the record, I was trying to tail gun in this pic. It was supposed to be funny, and I couldn't even pull that off.


Ok, heres a lame scenic pic of a fun looking line I took a couple weeks ago.