We headed out to Bridger for the 5th day in a row...the first time that has happened since we arrived in Bozeman. One thing or another has gotten in the way...temps dropping to -32 degrees for three days and then Bill decided he had a cold so we didn't head out to the slopes. Maybe we were on to something since both of us now have some very tired legs. Too bad we have stairs up to the apartment.
On the other hand we would not have missed the last four days of powder...Tuesday's 1 inch which doesn't sound like much, but it makes the board run so nice. It was followed by 3 inches on Wednesday and then a whopping 10 inches on Thursday. Which really brought out the powder hounds and created a mass of happy people at the start of the day. We actually made the 'rope drop' at 9:00 AM.
Today's 4 inches wasn't quite as grand, but we had a full fledged whiteout to ride through...WOW! As we headed up the lift with some fairly heavy snow falling we made the comment "how nice it would be to have snow falling all day". By the time we reached the top of the lift the wind was blowing pretty darn hard...with the snow flying and blowing off the trees it created a total whiteout. We decided to head down through what we thought would be a more protected chute. It certainly wasn't clear, but we could see well enough until we reached the bottom...then nothing but white swirling around us. We made our way back to the bottom trying to see any objects that could be in the way...trees, lift poles, people. Not a comforting feeling at all.
Once we made it to the lift we decided to bail and wait it out in the lodge. We were not alone. One of the Ski Patrol guys walked in after us and stated the obvious "Holy crap"...within 10 minutes the lifts where we had been all were on wind holds...which lasted until after 1:00 PM. Thankfully other lifts on the far side were still running and basically wind free. It ended up being another terrific day on the slopes.
Crossing our fingers that the 'big storm' being forecast for Sunday and Monday occurs...we may have become Powder Hounds.
Another short video of Thursday's boarding....
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