Montana 2/22-3/3

[indiggio]

I looked up the royal 7...it's $47 a night and the reviews say there were skeet stains on the sheets, bed bugs and all sorts of critters.  Makes where I live and the 49er in Jackson hole look like the Ritz Carlton in comparison. 

I searched for bedbugs and found no evidence. I didn't bring my UV light to. Heck for stains.

[indiggio]

Omg, have stayed at the Royal 7.  Did they ever have a maid do your room?  Probably ten years ago, it seemed to be an issue.

Yeah, they came through. Whether they did anything more than just reset the bed covers is questionable. The towels looked like they've been there since the gold rush days!

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

6 minutes ago, indiggio said:

 

I searched for bedbugs and found no evidence. I didn't bring my UV light to. Heck for stains.

 

The nicest hotels fail the black light test. It's why I wear sweatpants as opposed to shorts when I sit on the recliner in the room at the 49er..I don't want to get a rash. 

[indiggio]

Big Sky - Day 2

Snow began falling around 7am and was coming down at a pretty good clip and avy guns again going off on the mountain.

The plan for the day was to head over to the South Face right off to take advantage of the falling snow. We headed down to Mountain Village and checked the big board to make sure both Shenandoah and Dakota lifts were good and both were green, sweet!

Rode up the Sweet quad to make our way to the backside. At the top of the lift we catch a sign that both the other lifts are closed. WTF? Is the big board right or these? We decided to take a chance that the lifters forgot to change them last night and went over to Paradise, not Blue's green version by any stretch! At the bottom of Paradise we found to our dismay that the big board was wrong and the lifties had it right. Let that be a lesson to all!

Took Middle Road all the way back to the base and decided to hang out on Andesite for the morning. Took Ramcharger lift and proceeded down Crazy Raven which had some nice, partially filled bumps down to Everett's Anger. At that point, the group took a right, heading down to Big Horn, but me and another went left, deeper into the woods...mistake. The farther we went in, the steeper it got to get down to Big Horn. We did eventually find a route down which had pretty thin cover to which the nicks in the bases would attest.

Up the Thunder-Wolf and down Mad Wolf which had some gnarly bumps all the way down the liftline. Next lap, some went back to the bumps, me and another decided to go tree searching, as we can ski bumps back st Blue but not many trees. We headed down to check out Shady Chute which was ok, but nothing spectacular. It was shot and we popped out too soon and went straight back down to Thunder-Wolf. Others wanted another bump repeat, so we tried Broken Arrow. It was a little like Shady, but more open with some huge bumps at the bottom. They had enough bumps so we all went down to the Bolivia woods area. Lots of fun and good snow were down there. Last run through we pushed right into Marlboro Country where they have a bunch of avalanche fencing and a tight, bumped corridor next to them, pretty cool!

We broke for lunch and asked SP about South Face who confirmed it was open. It was still pumping snow and we had probably received a good 4-5" by now. We made our way down Spotted Elk under Ramcharger which was a lot of fun.

We made it around to the South Face the same way as in the morning and took the long run past the Yellowstone Club which we heard some wild stories about from people in the lift. Must be nice to have gobs of money...

Up the Shenandoah and down Sunlight and Mike Skinner to the Dakota. We marveled at Kircher's Cliffs off in the distance and wondered how one would extract themselves if the had got too close to find themselves cliffed-out. It's some pretty wicked terrain out here and you better know what you're doing! Evidence of a fresh slide was still up there.

We ended up lapping the trees under the Dakota which were all freshly filled, so finding powder was as easy as going around the next tree. The weather was a bit fickle on this side, as at the bottom of the lift it was barely flirting, midway up it was dumping snow and at the top, it was sunny!

It was after 2pm now, so we decided to depart and make our way back to the house. As we came around to the other side it was still snowing hard and there were still untracked runs to be found. At this point, my legs were noodles and I just wanted to get back. Some decided to make a few more runs, which for one member, wasn't the smartest of ideas. He went off a little roller, spun around and torqued his Achilles bad. No need to push it when you're tired!

Beer, dinner (Shrimp Scampi), Johnny Walker and a movie, to which I didn't pay any attention because it was so boring. I didn't even get the title.

[Shadows]

12 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

The nicest hotels fail the black light test. It's why I wear sweatpants as opposed to shorts when I sit on the recliner in the room at the 49er..I don't want to get a rash. 

Yet you live in one.

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

40 minutes ago, Shadows said:

Yet you live in one.

I don't have a recliner 

[sibhusky]

On 2/26/2018 at 3:54 PM, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

Sibhusky do you still keep track of vertical?

Yes.  Having a bad, bad year personally.  The skiing is great.  But I'm having a ton of migraines and my brother died, so have not racked up much.  

[enjoralas]

38 minutes ago, sibhusky said:

Yes.  Having a bad, bad year personally.  The skiing is great.  But I'm having a ton of migraines and my brother died, so have not racked up much.  

Sorry for your loss. Hope the headaches  get better.

[indiggio]

Sorry for your loss. Hope the headaches  get better.

Ditto! Hope you feel better soon!

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

2 hours ago, sibhusky said:

Yes.  Having a bad, bad year personally.  The skiing is great.  But I'm having a ton of migraines and my brother died, so have not racked up much.  

Hang in there. We're glad to have you back on PASR!!!  Do you post on ski divas now that Epicski is defunct?

[indiggio]

Big Sky - Day 3

The morning started out pretty much the same as the others, get up, eat, write TR, etc., go ski.

Today was the day after the storm bluebird day, unfortunately it was a bit windy, more on that later. Since it was bluebird, we could get up to Lone Peak with good visibility, unlike all the previous days, so that was the goal.

Took the Otter up and then down to the base to see a pretty large crowd had already formed at the Swift. Looks like everyone has the same idea as to where to go.

Headed up the Swift and down to the Powder-Seeker. Up the PS and down to the Tram to a small corral of people, not too bad. Took a bunch of pics and watched a skier come down the Big Couloir, followed shortly after by a boarder. Midway down the couloir the boarder fell and tumbled a couple of times. To the crowd's amazement, he miraculously popped back upright and continued the run down to the line. He was wearing brown pants for good reason, we thought!

Up the Tram to the top where the winds were howling. From the top, the decision was made to head down the South Face, as they had been here before and found a nice powder field there after a storm. Well, that decision quickly came back to haunt us, as the storm's winds were out of the West and had blown Liberty bowl almost completely bare of powder. Oh to be a local!

We picked our way down Liberty and down to Dakota and lapped the trees a couple of times. Riding up Dakota I was drawn to Kircher's Cliffs, looker's left. There were some avy explosion marks in the snow and a few tracks. I wanted to check it out but the others wanted to do another tree run. My curiosity got the better of me and I told them I was headed to the cliffs, but none followed.

Headed down past the blue Badlands and the an avy gate and made my way out a traverse to the base of the cliffs and a wide-open Hanging Valley perder field all to myself. Skies down that and found the way back to Dakota and the others. Of course, they now wanted to check it out! Having done it once already, this time I pushed even further South, going around a cliff and further South some more to the avy pockmark to score some more Fresh tracks.

We grew tired of South Face and made our way back around to have some lunch. Since the snow was better on the North side, we headed over to Andesite and lapped the bumps on Mad Wolf a few times. Departed Andesite by way of Spotted Elk which still had some freshies and made our way back over to Challenger as its close to the house.

We lapped Challenger liftline bumps and the trees around there until we had had enough and made our way back to the house for some homemade guac and beers. One of the local bars supposedly had poker and a ping-ping table, so we made our way there after dinner only to be skunked on both fronts. Poker night was Thursday and the ping-pong table was no more.







Yellowstone Club

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Nice report.  Either the steak is small or the plate is huge!!!!  

[Shadows]

thats probably the most boring meal thats been posted on here  but its a normal good looking meal.

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Just now, Shadows said:

thats probably the most boring meal thats been posted on here  but its a normal good looking meal.

#Truth!!!  At least Indiggios poops for the next day or two should be interesting...reminds me of Cornholio

[indiggio]

Nice report.  Either the steak is small or the plate is huge!!!!  

Plate is large and bought way too many potatoes and corn, so they were extra large helpings. Nice having a grill out back to fire up the steaks. Luckily there's plenty TP in the house!

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

1 hour ago, indiggio said:

 

Plate is large and bought way too many potatoes and corn, so they were extra large helpings. Nice having a grill out back to fire up the steaks. Luckily there's plenty TP in the house!

 

Way to get after cooking for yourself on a ski trip.  Did you stop at Albertsons in Bozeman???  

[JFskiDan]

8 hours ago, indiggio said:

 

Plate is large and bought way too many potatoes and corn, so they were extra large helpings. Nice having a grill out back to fire up the steaks. Luckily there's plenty TP in the house!

 

That looks super tasty btw. 

[enjoralas]

20 minutes ago, JFskiDan said:

That looks super tasty btw. 

Like a "Before" picture of date night at Doug's  h̶o̶u̶s̶e̶ hotel. 

[toast21602]

4 minutes ago, enjoralas said:

Like a "Before" picture of date night at Doug's  h̶o̶u̶s̶e̶ hotel. 

That's assuming he gets a date. 

[enjoralas]

30 minutes ago, toast21602 said:

That's assuming he gets a date. 

The date is on the plate

[toast21602]

1 minute ago, enjoralas said:

The date is on the plate

Oh I'm aware. Even mashed potatoes are repelled. 

[sibhusky]

On 2/27/2018 at 9:30 PM, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

Hang in there. We're glad to have you back on PASR!!!  Do you post on ski divas now that Epicski is defunct?

Not often.  Probably post more here.

 

I'm on Pugski.  I looked at some others, but really nothing has clicked.

[indiggio]

Way to get after cooking for yourself on a ski trip.  Did you stop at Albertsons in Bozeman???  

Yeah, that's where we stocked up an entire SUV worth of food and booze. Had to go to an Exxon station for the beer.

[indiggio]

Big Sky - Day 4

Off day, mainly because I bought a Maxx Pass which only provides 5 days at a mountain and I didn't feel like buying the extra day and also wanted to see the area a little bit.

Hung out, drove into town which consists mainly of a single circle surrounded by mostly realty offices, a couple of ski shops, a small market and a few other trinket shops. The circle is surrounded by mostly townhouses and the further you get away they change to single family homes. There's some construction going on at the one end of town, but didn't investigate what they were building.

Walked around the shops a bit, then stopped at the Lone Peak Brewery for beer and lunch. Had a Lone Peak IPA which was decent and a chili verde rice bowl which was quite tasty.

Decided to go see what we could of the Yellowstone Club for shits and giggles. Drove out of town and up the road that leads to the club. Lots of multi-million $ houses line the road. Finally got to the gate which was pretty unimpressive, so we turned around and headed back down a different road.

On the way down, we passed some new construction going on which will obviously continue down the road we are on. As we approached a turn, there's a moose standing right next to the road! The thing was massive! I tried to get my phone up for a pic, but the thing moves fast for such a big animal and headed down a culvert. We continued down hoping to cut it off, but the culvert got deeper and the road changed direction. Bummer!

Headed back to the resort for a couple of beers, then back to the ranch for leftovers and then put on G.N.A.R. The Movie which most of the others never saw.

[indiggio]