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Apparently, Warren Miller Entertainment was here in January. http://player.vimeo.com/video/71989338 There's three glimpses in the trailer - probably means 30 seconds in the actual movie. My understanding is that 5-7 minutes of the film is in Montana, which includes Big Sky, and maybe Red Lodge as well, so how much time will we get? I do know that they were shooting something with a guy named David Steele sometime last season..

A local guy picked up a pair with bindings from that sale for $349!

Just a tip. If you like Nordica, there is a sale going on at Start Haus for the last couple weeks of skis with cosmetic blemishes. I picked up a pair of 2013 skis there for Siblet for $299. I missed the sale last year, damn it, it started just as I picked up my newly-mounted skis. This was advertised on Epic and I understand 100 of us have already hit it hard, but there appear to be many skis left. http://shop.starthaus.com/store/pc/2013-Nordica-Blemish-Ski-Sale-c311.htm?m=1&ProdSort=1&catviewall=t&idCategory=311

I'm not a mountain biker, but apparently we have a pretty good setup here: http://www.mtnadvisor.com/article/the-best-bike-parks-in-the-mountain-west/?id=239

He'd probably follow me into the trees, and then the contest would be to see who left whom in the tree well.

You're heading to Seattle or something?

I haven't even been to Fernie or Schweitzer. However, before we moved, I'd been to Banff.

We have an airport. We have trains. And we are only 60 miles from the Canadian border. Spokane is just slightly farther than Missoula. 5.5 hours to Calgary. 4.5 to Spokane 3 to Missoula

Just to give you an idea of the impact... The population of the town was just over 6000 at the last census.

Summer is our (the town's) high season. Out of 760,000 visitors, 400,000 are summer visitors, just July and August. Don't forget, Glacier National Park is right by us. Not only is there mountain biking at the resort, but zip-lining, an aerial obstacle course, the chairlift, guided nature walks, etc.

The gondola is only used in summer - notice no place for skis. They alternate the gondolas with chairs. I don't use them because they are hot and the plexiglass is all scratched. But they are good for people with small kids or slightly-better for those with fear of heights. We have extensive mountain biking and hiking here in the summer and the Summit House is open for lunch and beer on the deck. You can ride up or down winter or summer.

Summer chair

North Bowl in the summer: Cold, fresh water coming down the hill:

I guess I skied at Camelback 1974 to 1976, then 1979 to 2003. Was on the old CB board before this board started.

I grew up in West Chester, moved to Connecticut after grad school, then to Hillsborough, NJ. Moved here in August of 2003. Used to ski with Ray Panella. Saved me a lot of money in skis.. We still exchange Christmas cards.

Wow, stunned to hear it's still in existence. I got my first skis and boots there. Thirty eight years ago.

Well, I think the OP is trying to narrow down the number of brands he should look at. Since some brands seem to be better for certain shapes of feet more than others. I can't wear Lange, for instance. Hopefully he's not trying to do this so he can buy on eBay, sight unseen. The only way to buy boots is to go to stores, narrow it down, then work with a good bootfitter. Hopefully, the bootfitter is at the same store as the boot... And not every guy selling boots knows what he is doing!

The comeback crash. http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/story?id=99762&page=1#.UeYZEPPnaaw

But.. He's not dead, yet, right?

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200

More cold lake

More pics from that day: Polebridge, Northern Lights Saloon: The Merc in Polebridge:

You'd be wrong. Siblet is the warrior. She kept her cool, and was ready.

Don't think so as we were coming up a rise and he was below us coming out of the lake. Siblet heard him shaking off. She then said, calmly, "Hey, bear." I was behind her and said, "There's a bear?" We started backing up and he reared up on his haunches, checking us out. We backed up a bit more, then headed off the trail up a hill leading away from the lake, because if he took to the trail, we wanted him coming up hill if he decided to charge. He, however, headed up hill parallel to us. We stopped moving. He angled above and around us. I was worried he was trying to get his own higher ground, but he kept going, thank God. I really wanted to take another picture, but they were afraid the camera clicks were going to piss him off.

It definitely saw us. If it had chased us, I wouldn't be here. Even though both Siblet and my husband had their bear spray out and ready, we would have had about three seconds or less to react. Although we backed up the trail, then left the trail to him and climbed up the hill above him, he went uphill as well, cutting an arc around us. Was definitely within 50 feet. This was actually our second bear of the day. One was walking along the road between Columbia Falls and Polebridge. Definitely a black bear, maybe 100 pounds less than this dude. We were in the car at the time, which is definitely my preferred viewing position.