TR; this last weekend at Bridger

**XtrPickels** · 07-31-2008, 07:43 AM

I think I share everyone's concerns for bridger not getting any busier.
The saving grace that I am banking on is that you need beacon / shovel / partner for the new terrain. Anyone who is on that chair would have been hiking anyway. The load is going to be spread out. Plus, with all this new and exciting terrain, the classics are going to see less traffic.

The place is always going to be absurd on the midweek powder day. But I bet the lil 4" storms will really add up and you'll be able to find the goods for longer.

**pnut** · 07-31-2008, 08:40 AM

I was talking to a patroller sometime in May, and he said they
were thinking about eliminating the partner rule for the Ridge.
I thought that sounded awesome. Any truth to this?

**Jumper Bones** · 07-31-2008, 09:27 AM

Oh dear god I hope so. I hike S-L-O-W, and hate slowing down groups I'm hiking with. I get out of the way of faster hikers, but unfortunately my partners get hosed...so I tend to not hike.

That development consortium is way more the enemy of our bridger bowl than this new slushmans' lift is or ever will be.

**FatherOblivion** · 07-31-2008, 09:42 AM

Did you complain when they finally added d-route to the terrain? Seriously, there are some major douchebags, but bottom line is more terrain means more spread out douchebags. They aren't so bad unless they pile up...

Edit: Outing my new identity, formerly bubba-k, just hated that name my buddy registered for me...

**Sirshredalot** · 07-31-2008, 04:11 PM

Originally Posted by Jumper Bones

Oh dear god I hope so. I hike S-L-O-W, and hate slowing down groups I'm hiking with. I get out of the way of faster hikers, but unfortunately my partners get hosed...so I tend to not hike.

That development consortium is way more the enemy of our bridger bowl than this new slushmans' lift is or ever will be.

Well, if you gotta hike slow, you gotta hike slow. It's not a race up there, as much as some people would like it to be. We're supposed to be having fun. I bet the ridge hike is a lot less crowded next year. A lot of folks will be riding the new lift.

**FatherOblivion** · 07-31-2008, 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by Sirshredalot

Well, if you gotta hike slow, you gotta hike slow. It's not a race up there, as much as some people would like it to be. We're supposed to be having fun. I bet the ridge hike is a lot less crowded next year. A lot of folks will be riding the new lift.

Everyone is slow at some point, I figure the difference between a fast bootpack and a slow one is only a few minutes. You can save those few minutes a lot of other ways besides hollering at slow hikers (although I regularly ask faster hikers if they'd like to pass). And as I said before, someones gonna be going north, that will be the long hike, hopefully meaning less traffic. The only thing that's for certain is things are going to be different... hopefully we all find the changes for the better but who knows...

**Lexi-Bell** · 07-31-2008, 06:31 PM

Originally Posted by Jumper Bones

That development consortium is way more the enemy of our bridger bowl than this new slushmans' lift is or ever will be.

Took the words right outta my mouth. I'd rather see ten new lifts than one hotel.

Great how Base is able to visualize the new terrain, I'm still trying to find Exit Chute.

It's funny people complain that BB needs more lifts to spread out the crowd then when a new lift is being put in folks complain it will bring in more crowds. More expert terrain and a (basically) open boundary are hot shit for our beloved hill, and I'm super-pumped for this coming year.

Sure a midweek pow day can be surprisingly busy, and there are bound to be a few tools in the lift line, but most other passholders I've met are good peoples. You want douche-baggery? Try Carter's Bridge on a Sunday afternoon. Fuck me.

And Bubba I love your new siggy.

**tone capone** · 07-31-2008, 06:39 PM

no traverses(maybe)

Let me tell ya something. That slushmans upper meadow is going to have like a hundred vertical feet of traverses. You know how 90% of people ski a little ways down the upper meadow, and then cut over to the lower meadow. That is going to suck. That is one thing about all the terrain up there that will not change with the slushmans lift. Not a lot of consistent fall line. Unless your going to ski the sikter gnar spines that go down into the gully, which are always going to be bombed out or side slipped out. That terrain cannot possibly support lift service. You wait and see fellas. That terrain in slushys is going to be a travesty, but the going south should hopefully make up for it. But yeah, Remember I said that the whole upper meadow is going to be a beater-traverse shit show.

**baseWeldr** · 07-31-2008, 07:17 PM

well then we're just gonna have to find ways to link 'em up fluidly- maybe only blast that top meadow early then work some lines toward no name as the day goes on and keep progressing south, snow safety allowing...

I agree the the gut will get slayed, people will brobrah off something and land on someone or some shit- I'd be lookin uphill right for incoming slashliners if I found myself in the gully proper...

whenever Sfacing stuff's good though, boundry chute zone and the near side of noname have some fun lookin acres to play on...

heres some exithttp://www.bridgerbowl.com/mediagall...eo/2007/02/19/

**FatherOblivion** · 07-31-2008, 09:03 PM

Originally Posted by Lexi-Bell

Took the words right outta my mouth. I'd rather see ten new lifts than one hotel.

And Bubba I love your new siggy.

Totally agreed, and if my siggy aint the truth I don't know what is anymore...

**tone capone** · 07-31-2008, 09:47 PM

well then we're just gonna have to find ways to link 'em up fluidly- maybe only blast that top meadow early then work some lines toward no name as the day goes on and keep progressing south,

That is about the best I can think of. It just worries me that there is a long section of that upper meadow that people traverse over. Ya know what I mean? Everybody goes down to a different spot and then just diagonals for 100 vertical feet to the right. I'm not bitching, just observing what was going on with all the traffic this season.

I'd be lookin uphill right for incoming slashliners if I found myself in the gully proper...

Yeah, that terrain, with a lift up it, I don't know. Some things about it are great for side country, but there will be those kind of problems lift serve. I have come down the spines into the dragons throat before, thinking the people that went like 15 minutes before me had moved on, and then you come down on top of them and they're just standing there having lunch or something.

Anyways, I will figure out a way to have fun over there. It's reality now. I just hope it spreads people out.

**XtrPickels** · 08-01-2008, 12:33 AM

Originally Posted by baseWeldr

heres some exithttp://www.bridgerbowl.com/mediagall...eo/2007/02/19/

I'd recognize that style anywhere

**mtcham** · 08-27-2008, 10:12 AM

Anyone notice Bridger's website promo on passes this year, They are offering a Pass and Pieps combo that includes a shitty Pieps Freeride beacon for $170. Slushman's and the ridge are going to be just a little more crowded I think.

On the upside mambo combo is good again-get to eat for free all winter.

**Sirshredalot** · 08-27-2008, 11:02 AM

Wow, the range claimed by Pieps for that beacon is only 30-40 meters. So the real-life range is probably what? 20-25m? That sucks 500 pound floppy donkey dick. Still, 170 is a good deal and any given beacon is only as effective as the operator, I guess.

**Jumper Bones** · 08-29-2008, 07:44 AM

Originally Posted by pnut

I was talking to a patroller sometime in May, and he said they
were thinking about eliminating the partner rule for the Ridge.
I thought that sounded awesome. Any truth to this?

In today's Bozeman Daily Comical, there was an attached Bridger Bowl packet, complete with handy-dandy trail map...and it lists the Ridge and Slushman's areas as "Tranceiver required; partner and shovel strongly recommended"

So I take it the partner rule is now dead? Fantastic, they should have done that 8 years ago!

**powpowpowderwheels** · 09-01-2008, 06:01 PM

Is it really going to get more crowded? Every time there was more than 6'' of snow the parking lots were full anyways (even weekdays). Can it get more full? I think this crowd will just be more dispersed. Unless of course they are adding parking, which would suck.

Edit: Any status updates on the new lift? Will it be open this year? I heard they were pretty behind due to the late snowpack.

**Jumper Bones** · 09-01-2008, 06:56 PM

Originally Posted by MT

Setting towers with a K-Max. Smells like snow out there.

Definitely feels like snow today. Girlfriend and friends are bitching about the temps and clouds, and all I can do is smile and grin...

Saw the K-Max flying from the airport the last couple days, wondered where he was going. Looked like he was flying south, I figured something in Big Sky.

Thanks for sharing that.

**workinforturns** · 09-02-2008, 09:29 AM

it will for sure be done up there. they are done pouring concrete so now all that's left is each tower, one piece at a time, and then the cable which takes maybe 3 days. done in no time.

**Lexi-Bell** · 09-02-2008, 12:01 PM

I just happened to stumble on this pic of workin' yesterday.

**FatherOblivion** · 09-02-2008, 05:25 PM

Lars, nice to see you hangin' around these parts... must be work time at the library? Anyways, it sounds like things are coming along well, heard from clayton that he and steve almost got smushed by a giant 3,000 lb. concrete block while working with the kmax the other day, sounds like fun....

**baseWeldr** · 09-16-2008, 05:55 AM

nice lil slideshow on the bb site showin the progress on the schlaasman's lift

headed out next week w/the entire weldrBrood (9/23-10/11)- really sux that the hot springs just got tore up by a fire- that place is $$$ w/the kiddos...
anyone down for some beers, discin, rentalhouse roof repairin, or skiporn watchin...

**Jumper Bones** · 09-16-2008, 03:10 PM

Base - when ya go home? I'm out of town until the 28th...

**Snowbeaver** · 09-17-2008, 08:23 PM

Hope there's room for one more. Got into town about a week ago. Been doing some exploring and general dicking around. Finally got out for a ride the other day. Bit different than riding in NY. Met a really cool dude and his lady up at the lake He actually might be riding the intertubes somewheres around here...mentioned he had gotten over 100 days in the BC last season up near big sky.

Not the bridgers, but remaining snow got me extra stoked:

Emerald Lake is OK I guess. I'll eat an orange on this rock and punch myself in the face for not bringing a fishing pole:

God lets me know that even though I'm useless and unemployed, it was still a good choice to come here:

Anyway, any of you Bozetards wanna meet up for a ride, hike, beers, anything that doesnt suck, PM me. You know, ski some bowls, smoke some bowls, eat some bowls of oatmeal, whatever. And if you see an idiot riding a beat to shit Motobecane around town, yell for change, I can usually break a nickel.

**Amphibious1** · 09-18-2008, 12:19 PM

... that water was breathtakingly cold. Looked like more fun on the descent for you. Still working on getting the little lady a bike.

Nice pics. Here's some pics

Off to Moab.

**baseWeldr** · 09-19-2008, 12:33 PM

/procrastination on the honeydo list during kids' naptime post
lookin thru bb daily pic archives thinkin I saw some bozomagg types
there's prob a lot more in there

thought FZ(?) had a coat like that, could be wrong
had another up I think was wrong

bdr methinks

me_mcPoser

one of you other doods I thought...

this you Xpckls?

6r in da $$$

stoneman in the air goin lower sluice heh
love that gulley...

nice light

huh, thought fersure I remembered the workinman's red pants like the pic above and at least one of MT somewhere but then again they take 'em in the morning which isn't always the best time to locate the tgr demographic on the hill- unless it snowed of course... there's a ton of turk pics with either big kev, sanders or phd kevin next on the most frequent daily model list...
post em up- I missed a bunch- lunch over-out

edit for wrongness & I'm hearting bells 2hearted ale, mmmmmm.......