Whitefish today pic

sibhusky · February 21

Day 41. Missed a whole week of powder due to the flu. Had a shaky first day back and it's a different season. Went from polar conditions to early spring.

sibhusky · February 24

Day 42. A real mixed bag. First run was a confidence-destroying slog through windpack, looking for blown-off areas or chopped up stuff. Headed to back and found Saturday-level crowds. Then went over to Chair 2 for mashed potatoes and cottage cheese.

sibhusky · February 25

Day 43. The worst fog I've been in, in 25 years, on the Ant Hill today. I couldn't figure out where "down" was to look for the next fog ball. Tried following people, but they rapidly disappeared and I had to wait for another.

Fortunately, Flower Point wasn't as bad and there was skiing bliss to be found on its silky snow. If only that lift wasn't so slow!! Mixed in a few chair 5's to break it up, but it's no speed demon, either. Could have skied that stuff all day but the slow lift and dumping graupel finally sapped away any warmth.

sibhusky · February 27

Day 44. The morning web cam showed it was going to be a glorious day and it was. But this is too much "Spring", too early.

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GrilledSteezeSandwich · February 28

@sibhusky James from Rise and Alpine visited the Big Mountain Montana. His mantra is ski fast and rip ass!!

sibhusky · February 28

Day 45. No Name was worth repeating, but is tough to lap. There are a ton of ski clubs here that I wish would leave. They seem to predominately consist of the clueless.

sibhusky · February 28

3 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

@sibhusky James from Rise and Alpine visited the Big Mountain Montana. His mantra is ski fast and rip ass!!

He was here Monday. He should have come a week sooner. I can't believe he went to the Firebrand.$$

Monday was a mixed bag, definitely not the best. His chair buddy sent him to Flower Point, which was a good choice early in the day. He then ignored them and went to East Rim. That would definitely have warmed him up.

Edited February 28 by sibhusky

sibhusky · February 28

I lost the rest of my comments due to a time out. Probably just as well. Not going to subscribe.

GrilledSteezeSandwich · February 28

And sorry, that was Lucas Catania..he was on his way back to Utah after skiing in Canada.

sibhusky · March 2

Day 46. It's spring here. I skied until the slop and crowds were getting excessive.

sibhusky · March 4

Day 47. Everything hard as granite all day, including a damned normally-groomed area that I like to hit, but you can't exit once you get there and it wasn't. Rock hard mush in lumps, chunks, and ridges. Glad I survived that mess.

Did find skiable trails here and there.

Benm · March 4

57 minutes ago, sibhusky said:

Day 47. Everything hard as granite all day, including a damned normally-groomed area that I like to hit, but you can't exit once you get there and it wasn't. Rock hard mush in lumps, chunks, and ridges. Glad I survived that mess.

Did find skiable trails here and there.

Sounds like blue on a 7.5/10 day

sibhusky · March 4

3 hours ago, Benm said:

Sounds like blue on a 7.5/10 day

At least there's a lower number of skiers per square foot here.

sibhusky · March 5

Day 48. Forgot to take pics until the last run since I was skiing with friends.

sibhusky · March 6

Day 49. More spring skiing with friends.

Edited March 6 by sibhusky

sibhusky · March 7

Day 50. More sunshine. This is not a good thing.

GrilledSteezeSandwich · March 8

1 hour ago, sibhusky said:

Day 50. More sunshine. This is not a good thing.

Congrats on hitting 50…high five. I’d be there around now if not for my dern knee.

sibhusky · March 8

I missed over a week due to the flu.

sibhusky · March 9

Day 51. Same old, same old...

sibhusky · March 11

Day 52. Spent the day baby sitting a visitor from MN. Will not do that tomorrow. Needed a stiff drink when I got home.

PSUFrankenstein · March 12

How have the conditions been at Whitefish? looks pretty good from the recent pics, especially Sunday's post. I may do a day at Whitefish depending on where I end up on Montana at the end of the month

sibhusky · March 12

Day 53. Winter is back, with more snow on the way. Not a moment too soon. Today's was medium density, good for coverage, but skiable. Unfortunately, lower on the front got packed and was like a marble floor with lumps in areas with a lot of traffic. Scary as hell with meat missiles who can't ski for shit. The trouble is, you can't stay on the back forever, you must return home via some route or other through that hell.