kingslug
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Finaly decided to go somewhere else..from Utah that is. hooked up with the Diamond Dogs ski club out of NYC and headed to Montana for 6 days. Its a long trip, they routed us to Atlanta! We stayed at the Huntley Lodge on the mountain which turned out to be a pretty nice place. Its like a little village up there at 7500 feet, had to get used to that. Several restaurants and bars, several ski shops, groceries, pretty much anything you need. And the beer is good!
The mountain rises 4350 feet and is pretty well spread out, you won't get bored! Several high speed lifts, doubles, triples, and a tram which gets you to a pretty intimidating summit. The summit has some pretty steep runs off the face, the main chute requires you sign up with patrol and have avi geat. Sadly I didn't get to go down it as the weather socked it in..and I like to see things. We did go down the dictator chutes which while a little scary getting to where fine to carve down. Around the corner is liberty bowl, an easier but very long run. Going off that bowl into the mogul and tree fileds affords you a very long run, about 45 minutes to get back to the base. One thing this kind of vertical gets you..loooong runs. they have miles of mogul runs of all degrees. Glades everywhere, some steep, some not. Tight tree skiing is not my thing so this is where I found my limits.
Met up with lokyl who posts here and has lived there for over 20 years. To say the locals can ski well is a big understatement, they are way above any ability I will ever have. We toured through the tight trees which I found pretty difficult..but we got some untouched powder as a reward. Also learned some local lore which is always a plus. We survived a few hours with him and broke for lunch, sadly we didn't get to see him again as a storm hit and he had to work. The strom hit pretty hard and afforded us the powder skiing we where hoping for. Since its not a crowded place we managed to score some untouched lines off the triple chair, had to skirt some rock faces to get it but what the hell. It just got better and better as the storm dropped freshies every day. We left with almost a foot of freah on the ground but after 6 days non stop I was shot.
While it may be hard to get to this place is a must do. I like the fact that it is not over developed.A real last frontier, very down to earth. I will return.
At the summit...
And down the Dicatator chute we go..
Just head in there, bang a left, and keep your speed up!
The mountain rises 4350 feet and is pretty well spread out, you won't get bored! Several high speed lifts, doubles, triples, and a tram which gets you to a pretty intimidating summit. The summit has some pretty steep runs off the face, the main chute requires you sign up with patrol and have avi geat. Sadly I didn't get to go down it as the weather socked it in..and I like to see things. We did go down the dictator chutes which while a little scary getting to where fine to carve down. Around the corner is liberty bowl, an easier but very long run. Going off that bowl into the mogul and tree fileds affords you a very long run, about 45 minutes to get back to the base. One thing this kind of vertical gets you..loooong runs. they have miles of mogul runs of all degrees. Glades everywhere, some steep, some not. Tight tree skiing is not my thing so this is where I found my limits.
Met up with lokyl who posts here and has lived there for over 20 years. To say the locals can ski well is a big understatement, they are way above any ability I will ever have. We toured through the tight trees which I found pretty difficult..but we got some untouched powder as a reward. Also learned some local lore which is always a plus. We survived a few hours with him and broke for lunch, sadly we didn't get to see him again as a storm hit and he had to work. The strom hit pretty hard and afforded us the powder skiing we where hoping for. Since its not a crowded place we managed to score some untouched lines off the triple chair, had to skirt some rock faces to get it but what the hell. It just got better and better as the storm dropped freshies every day. We left with almost a foot of freah on the ground but after 6 days non stop I was shot.
While it may be hard to get to this place is a must do. I like the fact that it is not over developed.A real last frontier, very down to earth. I will return.
At the summit...
And down the Dicatator chute we go..
Just head in there, bang a left, and keep your speed up!
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