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For Doug and Kyle: Today, looking towards Canada. Spent the PM taking EpicSki guy around some more. Took him in Stumptown for some nice fresh powder. Canada wouldn't be the nearer peaks, but the more distant peaks.

Just looking at my Pic of the Day album on Facebook, I'd say 30% of the time we can see Canada. The rest of the time we count the chairs we can see.... Those stats may change as spring comes.

Yes. As the crow flies, it's less than 45 miles to the border.

And, a SkiDiva....Too bad we didn't connect. That Sunday was the best day ever! http://www.theskidiva.com/forums/showthread.php?p=160427&highlight=whitefish#post160427

Yes, let's hear why...

Well, they probably are, but the whole SPIRIT of the thing is that they were "harvested" en route.

They're too busy skiing, I bet.

I agree with the race program comments. Siblet runs rings around me and she started racing sort of late, 12 years old. One of the fellow race coaches here told the kids she (Siblet) is the best skier of all the coaches. She owes her smooth, powerful, style to race instruction.

Is Alpine still around? Other than that, I'd vote for Shawnee.

Random stoke video from here. I had things to do today, but will be there tomorrow. And it's still snowing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pFfG5rMGIM&

But, you'll never get to them, because you keep going back to the same place. Fortunately, its beauty is little known. Mon-Fri most of the chairs are empty. We regularly have days where there are only 200-600 skiers spread over 3000 acres. Personally, I don't need gapers like Doug to provide variety in our clientele. We've already got the Texans.

Yeah, the snow here sucks.

glad to hear this

I was too far ahead of them.... Actually, they didn't take many pics when they skied with us. They were by themselves (without me) all of Wednesday, which was the blue sky day. And I only skied the middle of Thursday with them and just a smidge of Friday with them.

Carvemeister and the gang come to Whitefish

You like this better, Glenn? Lift served.

Although we're a "destination" ski area, the bulk of tickets are sold to Montanans. The locals who skin up are for the most part season ticket holders who like a lot of exercise. I knew about Bridger, don't understand the issue there, but don't understand the ownership there either. The various parties here (National Forest, WMR and the uphill people) outlined the issues on either side of the problem and made it a goal to reconcile the issues so that everyone is happy. Now the biggest problems are with the tourons who are not aware of changes to the policy, which HAD been a free-for-all. You'd come around a blind curve and there would be these idiots all in a bunch on a narrow trail across a cliff face. F-in ridiculous. Now they have routes that make sense and signs designating the routes. Since downhill skiers can see the signs (I think "Caution" or "slow" is on the flip side towards downhill skiers and "Uphill Route" is on the side facing the skinners), it isn't really an issue. You've been told to watch out and slow down for that type of traffic. Most of the uphill traffic here is early AM or late PM, anyway. There used to be idiots walking straight up Ptarmigan Bowl in midday. That's done with. Some of the uphill people had gotten into it with the guys trying to groom. That, I think, is over. I think there might be approved hiking hours as well, so that the groomers still working say, at midnight, aren't going to have problems grooming the uphill routes because of people still climbing when it's totally dark.

So, you're saying you hiked it? Pictures or it didn't happen.

Maybe it's just not "cool" anymore. There are almost none on ours this season. I can't believe a "hardcore" woman would do this, personally. Both Siblet and I are pretty hard core, but taking off clothing on a chair lift ride is not on our list of things to do.

What the heck? I don't get this at all! By the way, uphill skinning is a tradition here. He should move. There was a huge local uproar here when they tried to end it. After meeting with local citizen groups, they now have official uphill routes. But, since this is National Forest land for the most part, there was felt to be some obligation to allow access, even if they were allowed to control HOW it was done.

Looked them up. You've got 23 (save everyone looking). Doug's got 21, not counting JH, so had 4 to that, for a total of 25. Jeff's got 38. Didn't know there were people with "private" stats going. I'll have to keep checking that.

The ultimate gaper outfit.

Nice snow. Totally different kind of trees there. Looks like a lot are pretty close, but at least you can see around them, more like gates on a race course than the trees we have here. The last one is more like what we have here. Can you shrink the size of the pics a bit, tho? I have a 24 inch screen and still have to use the scroll bar to get a look at the whole picture? Maybe half size would be better?

Wow, that's a totally different video than I remember, lots more stuff in it.

So, are you cleared to do tricks again or are you done with that stuff? As a mom, of course, I hope you're going to take it easy for a few years.