Snow’s Up
According to their website. Bridger has gotten about 20″ of new snow since wednesday. Which has made for an excellent, tiring, and brief, weekend. There are so many places to explore out there. I feel like everytime I go I find something new. Its a seriously different mountain then Breckenridge was. Even though its a lot smaller I would say Bridger has a lot more varied terrain.
Something I have yet to do it hike to the top and ride down the ridge. Coming down from the ridge requires a mandatory hike because the lifts don’t go all the way. Also, you are required to to carry a shovel and avalanche tranceiver (to find others and be found, just in case). I was reading a book on hiking the ridge called “Steppin’ Up”, describing the different descending routes. I found it interesting that on more than a few, a 20-30 ft huck off a cliff was casually mentioned as required. Thankfully, not every thing is that crazy and I shall be seeking one of the more tame ways to be my introduction.
I took this picture of a cloud from my car window as I came into the parking lot this morning at Bridger. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen something like that. The cruddy cell phone picture does not do it justice, it was a spectacular cloud.
What are these mountains? A magnificent picture.
And what is a “huck?” Do you mean jump?
Sweet cloud, and sweet picture.
How many pictures did you stitch together for that? It looks really good
I think there is a UFO in the cloud.
I too want to know what a huck is, and hope your avalanche tranceiver is extra avalanche-proof.
future shredders, to “huck” means roughly “to launch oneself”. I believe it has a more powerful connotation that to merely “jump”. if you are “hucking” you are truely “in it to win it”.
and davy, with the quality of a picture you might have imagined that i stiched together a dozen or more pictures, but that is not actually the case. what you are witnessing is exactly what occured, as interpreted by the extremely tiny lense and rudimentary processing power of my phone.
I totally love these photos. Thanks for a real day brightener, Michael.
I will be happy never to huck.
But gladly would I view “Geyser Frost” in person!
Those are some pretty awesome pictures. I think this is the culprit in the the first one. It doesn’t look too much like a lens, but lenticular clouds are most common in mountainous areas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_cloud
I’m glad you’re getting the snow that we’ve been missing out on… although it might be nice to get some good snow here soon so that I could try to snowboard again, humiliate myself, and then go back to skiing and humiliate myself… but make it down the slope.
Excellent Eben, that is an exciting bit of science there. It always good to have something to say that’s a little more interesting than “neat cloud”.
those mountains in the second picture are the “Crazy Mountains”
….from a very quick google search from http://www.bigskyfishing.com….
“The Crazy Mountains are one of the more impressive mountain ranges in Montana. Lying at the western edge of the vast Montana prairie, these mountains rise sharply and steeply, towering more than 6000 vertical feet above the prairie below. More than 20 mountains rise to more than 10,000 feet in elevation.”