TR; this last weekend at Bridger

[andrewjesaitis]

Part of the "Big Lie" reputation stems from it being such a huge, exposed mountain where the entire gamut of conditions can exist in different areas on the same day. It's understandably hard to give an accurate report on that hill, but their recent claims of base depth have been comical.

This is true. I find that BS needs to be consistently reporting at least 70-80 inches to be skiing well. Less than that and you are just constantly hitting rocks. That said, when BS has snow, I don't think there is another mountain in the lower 48 that rivals it terrain wise.

[tone capone]

I did find some nice steep skiing off Challenger yesterday, and didn't hit rocks. Imagine that. Pretty fun day actually.

[baseWeldr]

skiin 'round challenger ystrdy wuza goodtime, looked like bridger w/all locals around.... sawya from afar tone, cheers to MT bein in MT again, top2bottom runs put on a good earlyseason burn 4my old legs anyway- goodtimes sliding down the tilted world, reunited and it feels so good...

edit to add-I had my total rockskis and barely hit a thing, watch for huge sharkfins tho in the runout below BeRTs main in front there, bigone almost gotme, bamboo worthy I thought...

[toast2266]

I was up at BS on turkey day. They did'nt have much open and sooo cold, six runs and outa there. Saturday was much better. Rode Challenger most of the day. Rocks were felt on every run, but that can happen any day of he season. I would say snow depth ave. about 18" to 24" up there, great day and its good to get started on the season.

You must have been in the wrong place. I was there too and skied knee deep pow until 3 (at which point my legs stopped working). It was definitely cold though.

Friday-Sunday weren't bad either.

[bushman]

I was riding swifty and I was told that the only other lift operating was ramcharger. Temps took a lot of joy out of the day.

[single]

powpowpow in the BC. I am starting to regret buying a pass at all.

[BobbyBill]

We interrupt the Big Sky chatter on the Bridger thread to announce Bridger will be open full-time 7 days a week starting tomorrow, Friday, Dec. 3rd! No more uphill travel allowed 24 hours a day now that the season is fully on. See ya out there!

[igBand]

^^Yee-haw

So this means the Doppelmayr gang and BB crew got that part over to Billings, fixed, and back to BZN and installed in 4 days??!!

[Lexi-Bell]

We interrupt the Big Sky chatter on the Bridger thread to announce Bridger will be open full-time 7 days a week starting tomorrow, Friday, Dec. 3rd! No more uphill travel allowed 24 hours a day now that the season is fully on. See ya out there!

W00T-W00t!!

FKNA just in time for another cycle, the maggots are ready, fire up Schlashies!


Props to Randy and the entire crew @ BB for making this happen, STOKED!!

[andrewjesaitis]

Today did not suck...at all.

Bridger was spinning nice smooth all day long. And they didn't open Slushman's (unless they did right after I took off to get to class), so you weekend folk will get first crack at it.

[WMD]

Today did not suck...at all.

Bridger was spinning nice smooth all day long. And they didn't open Slushman's (unless they did right after I took off to get to class), so you weekend folk will get first crack at it.

Today definitely did not suck. Awesome day for my first Bridger day of the year. I don't think Schlasmans ran. Should be excellent tomorrow.

[Norseman]

Sitting in SEA-TAC, hours to go
Can't wait to get back, travelling woe
Bridger's been dumped on, of course when I leave
Stoked to read SNOTELs, chillin at Gate C

Flew out to see NAVSEA, the torpedo yard
Had a few interviews, nothin too hard
I had the right answers for Walt in Division 23
He called me up later, said he's got a job for me

So I went out for seafood in celebration
Wound up at the bar, sea-side inebreation
Hung over ferry ride, sea mist on my face
Pondering making a home of this place

The mountains are rad here, Ranier's fuckin huge
And the monstrous Cascades make me want to splooge
But today back to Bridger, must go shred that shit
And finish out my 21st season, maybe my last... for a bit

[fez]

love it Norseman, I'm in a similar spot, but I'm not nearly as poetic. I took 12/10 - 12/22 off to start the season right, try to use up some vacation (got ~240 hours right now) and hit opening day. I got out all three days over thanksgiving, but a co-worker quit (for a job with a recruiter who contacted me first) and i was sent to Connecticut for a week. Then i ended up stretching it out to visit my parents, so now i'm sitting in their house in the adirondaks watching the 'cats on the net and wishing i was skiing.

ah well, be back soon, and i still got the 10th - 22nd off. gonna be a hell of a season.

[single]

Norse, bridger is tracked and bumpy. Give me a call and we will go for a tour. Knee deep untracked all morning. Does.not.suck.

[wood'nplenty]

good god, my legs are blown! what a day.

[Skipig25]

ditto on the above. 5 laps on slushmans at opening before heading out. wish I had a camera

[tone capone]

Norse, bridger is tracked and bumpy. Give me a call and we will go for a tour. Knee deep untracked all morning. Does.not.suck.

^^^Pickin yer battles now eh single... I don't blame ya! I tried to ski crud today after some amazing powder and it wasn't pretty. What an early season, what a week, so much good stuff going on out there, I am one happy skier right now.

[single]

^^^Pickin yer battles now eh single... I don't blame ya! I tried to ski crud today after some amazing powder and it wasn't pretty. What an early season, what a week, so much good stuff going on out there, I am one happy skier right now.

Yeah man! I have skied the resort half a day now... Just not motivated. You free tomorrow? Tour?

[vailcat]

Decided to open a week early I guess when they heard the bison were headed to town. Looks like y'all don't have to worry about football anymore this year. The kittens were put to bed today so ski away

Oh and the snow made the week sweet. The throttlin was just icing on it

[butterscotch]

Norse, bridger is tracked and bumpy. Give me a call and we will go for a tour. Knee deep untracked all morning. Does.not.suck.

Getting a little uppity, aren't we?

IMO, Saturday was as good as it gets for being sloppy seconds and all.

So who did I accost about his homemade skis ("like a skinnier S7") on the ridge on my way out to boundary chute?

And also, who the fuck skied Job 3 on Saturday?

[jeremiahyawnson]

Yeah man! I have skied the resort half a day now... Just not motivated. You free tomorrow? Tour?

single = Jaded local

[mtflyer]

So who did I accost about his homemade skis ("like a skinnier S7") on the ridge on my way out to boundary chute?

Did they say "EPIK" or "EK" on them?

[butterscotch]

^^^ I didn't notice any markings. They had a dark cherry woodgrain topsheet, and were mounted with dynafits.

[mtflyer]

Oh well never mind then...

[Skipig25]

that would be lobstahmeatwad I believe