February Continues

Sat Feb 8

Jamie and Jeremy came for the week. On the drive up to Whitefish, the Missions were clear and inspiring. Fireworks for commence at our arrival and burst low in the cold around us. Sunday was clear at the top of Big Mountain. We were lucky to have views of Canada and the park. Jamie is an impressive skier and was so strong all day! Jeremy had a skills day and learned really quickly.

Monday a trace of new snow had fallen overnight and skied much better than it sounds. After warm up runs we were off to the steep and bumpy back diamonds. Towards the end of a long day we ran into Matt and his brother and teemed up for some steep tight trees and extremely good snow. Jamie had no fear in the steepest double blacks of the trip.

Tuesday tired legs all around didn't stop us from skiing the four new inches of powder! Jamie loved the steeps in connie's coulee and Adri just rips. Terrific three days on the mountain with my family. Back to Hamilton in the evening.

Wednesday raining in the valley, snowin' in the mountains! Rest day.

Thursday Lost Trail was all Powder! Not the hero snow we all think of, but more delicate and difficult to ski. It was heavy on top and light underneath. This combination worked Jamie and Jeremy in the morning. After lunch we found that the wind had whipped up a cocktail of creamy goodness and kept pouring rounds every lift ride. Jamie couldn't get enough of outlaw. A steep rollover double black. Jamie worked on linking turns in the steep bumps. She's got it! What a day!

Friday, enough is enough. Legs worked from yesterday's challange we decided to change it up a bit. We toured the "backyard" on snowshoes and snowmobile. Jamie and Jeremy each accompanied me on  powderful and thrilling side by side rides up forests roads that were narrow and steep. It seemed like there should be some good skiing around somewhere... We all celebrated with dinner at the Plonk with Jamie's good friends L.C and Joel. It was good to meet Joel, who was inteligent and had inspireing words. The company and conversations were memorable all around. A memorable day!

Saturday was terrific. We headed up to Missoula again to see Jamie and Jeremy off, but not before having some fun... Jeremy was really impressive in his first day at the bouldering gym. He got the concept and completed routes impressively. Then to the Brewery for local brews and darts.

It was so good to have Jamie and Jeremy around. I hope they consider a more permanent recreational forecast.

February 1st & Second too...

... None

Saturday

Matt, Matt and Ben

8000 vertical today.

Sunday

Adrienne charged today. "Missoula start", 3300 ft. Met Eric and Dan who informed me of some serious anti blog sentiment in the rut.

Since I am nearly positive less people read this than I have seen skiing any where other than Gash Point. Not too worried.

January Week 4

1/26/14

Path: 13.44 miles long; 9146 ft gained; 9157 ft lost.

1/27/14

Fishin with Adri in town was fun though not very productive. We had never fished in town and the water was pretty good. We'll be back often for some post work sessions come summer!

January Weekend # 3

Saturday

Sunday

January Week 2

January 11th:

Rain in town, Rain for 12 miles on the sled and lots of snow above 6400 ft which we did not ski.

Ben, Jon and I put forth our best effort to find skiable snow. In the end, Mountain Max was outmatched and we decided skinning in the rain wasn't worth it anyway. Cold, wet, no skiing, large wet slides... enough on that topic.


January 12th:

Skiing Lost Trail with Adrienne. AMAZING! Bouncy powder all day. The tree clearing efforts at Lost Trail have paid off. Chair 4 opened at the end of the day resulting in two nearly untouched powder runs.

'14 - Week 1

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