This post is from the second day of our mini-week vacation.
- Tuesday: Big Sky: Lone Mountain
- Wednesday: this post
- Thursday: Midweek Rest Day at Big Sky
- Friday: Revisiting the Best of Big Sky
We logged 26 miles on the GPS Wednesday. Tyson had a goal: steeps and powder. We enrolled Isaac in ski school, then, Tyson led Mom and I on the hunt for steeps, trees, and powder.
We found blacks so steep Tyson tumbled down them on the end of the Stillwater bowl. We found traverses with blowing snow and flat light obscuring drop-offs that we only found when our skis grew light and our hearts rose to our throats. We found steep trees, and moderate trees, and a few trees with stashes of powder no one else had discovered.
Over the day, we worked our way over to Madison Basin. Too soon we had to turn back for the Mountain Village. From the Stillwater traverse, we looked up at many double black gullies even steeper than we’d skied. Maybe Tyson and I will attempt them another day.
Some of the trails we skied were
* Jay walk
* Forbidden forest
* country club
* highway
* St Alphons Trees
* BRT Road
* Blue Moon
* Elkhorn
* snake bite
* Cinnabar
* Stillwater Traverse
* lookout ridge
* Trap line (maybe)
* silver fox gully
* fast lane
* Lobo
* Calamity Jane (with Isaac)
All posts from our trip to Big Sky
All Photos
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- Challenger Triple to the top of Stillwater Bowl -- Comments (0)
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- Trudy and Emilie at the top of the challenger triple. -- Comments (0)
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- Trudy skiing Highway -- Comments (0)
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- Tyson couldn’t see the moguls on Highway -- Comments (0)
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- Emilie skiing Highway -- Comments (0)
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- The snow blending with the sky behind Tyson and Trudy -- Comments (0)
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- Pausing for a rest on Highway -- Comments (0)
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- Tyson happy about the powder -- Comments (0)
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- Emilie skiing St Alphons Trees -- Comments (0)
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- Trap Line -- Comments (0)
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- Trudy in the powder near Trap Line -- Comments (0)
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- Isaac exiting the trees after his lesson -- Comments (0)
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We seem to be pushed into making similar choices. The on-line news letter for the Natural Bridget Appalachian Trail Club will be using MailChimp as well for distribution.
John (A.K.A Dad)