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It really wasn’t as tedious as it sounds. We gave ourselves two days to get out there, seven on the ground, and two days to get back. Even with some of the poor road conditions on the drive out and back, it was really only a day and a half going out, and a day and a half coming back without any...

Oh yes. I did the storm driving, but she got most of the after-dark driving, which was a big help.

After skiing until the lifts closed at Lost Trail on Friday March 24, we drove to Philipsburg, MT. In light of the weather and the advice of locals we took a longer route to avoid Hwy 569. Lodging options are limited in Philipsburg. We stayed at the Kaiser Hotel where Tony and Liz stayed...

After three days of spring skiing at Whitefish we headed south to chase predicted snow, first to Lost Trail on Friday 3/24, and then to Discovery over the weekend. It snowed less overnight than the forecast had predicted. LT reported just three inches in their morning snow report. However, with...

A couple of months ago, my wife and daughter and I decided to ski Montana and/or Fernie and Castle over spring break. We picked the region for its low-hassle factor, with an abundance of quality skiing in resorts with comparatively-affordable lift tickets, low skier density, free parking not far...

The two bowls off Limelight offer a multitude of runs that are not just seriously pitched, but also easy to efficiently lap with just one lift ride and no, or very little, traversing. My ski area count isn’t particularly high, but it is difficult for me to think of another area I have skied with...

The MRG single chair safety bars do not fold down and have never folded down. Instead they are connected to the foot rests and both face straight forward when open and rotate inward to close, so Liz may have been right.

My point is NOT that a brand new Telluride or Palisade might be easy to steal. Let’s review. Hyundai/Kia sold a “couple million“ cars in the U.S. that really could not be simpler to hotwire. They are so simple to steal because a technology that had been industry standard for many years was...

I sure as %$&*@# wouldn’t consider the Palisade/Telluride. Read the news. Even if those models are not silly easy to steal (I don’t know if they are or not) the fact that Hyundai and Kia put such a simple to steal ignition system in any of their cars and then refused to recall all cars...

Don’t let tseeb fool you. He was consistently in the middle of the pack and, Sierra skier the he his, once again skied the wind slab we encountered just below tree line on day 3 better than any of us.

Sorry about that. I’m more like the Rickey Powell of amateur ski vacation photography than the Richard Avedon. On another topic, I‘ve been scratching my head a little bit about why our vertical totals were so low on days 2 and 3. Undoubtedly, the soft cat roads, the high wallow factor, the...

I’ll just leave this here:

Very interesting that our guide turned out to be Nancy Greene's younger brother. I mostly agree with Tony Crocker that Red is somewhat "powder dependent," although it was clear on 2/16 that we could have found more decent off-piste chalk if we had paid more attention to the compass rather than...

Regarding the depth of the snow we skied on Sunday (day 2), in the spirit of “a picture is worth a thousand words,” this series of Brett (on skis) and Graham (on a board) may be illustrative: This one of Chris is pretty good too: All of the above pix were taken from the...

More details about Monday's avalanche near Revelstoke from Avalanche.ca: "On Monday, a serious skier-triggered avalanche incident occurred in the Selkirks near Revelstoke. The avalanche was on an east aspect at 1900 m. It occurred on a steep, unsupported open slope below treeline and failed on...

In the thread that followed from EMSC's report of his tour with Mustang, we discussed Avalanche.ca's warning that this year's snowpack in the region may be the worst in 20 years, including a layer of faceted November snow at the bottom of the snowpack that is likely to continue to pose problems...

Kudos!

We‘re considering the region for some dirtbag-roadtrip-spring-break skiing, prioritizing flexibility. We were just comparing non-stop flights on Delta for a small variety of dates in mid-March from MSP to Spokane, Missoula, and Kalispell. The flights we found to Kalispell are considerably more...

Thanks. As is often the case, a picture is worth a thousand words. I'm glad you at least had a good day 3.

Ugh. I’m sorry to read the storm came in so warm. I’m glad to read that you had some “decent” skiing by the end of your tour. The map of your runs is very telling with respect to both how confined you were relative to the acreage and vertical range of Mustang’s tenure, and how clearly you...