Jewel Basin

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hell yeah dude.

May 20 2007 12:35AM

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Pictures:

The parking lot ( the outhouse is open and ready for business)

A shot from the ridge to the west of what I skied, I dropped the rightmost part of the main snowfield.

May 20 2007 12:44AM

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Stupid.

A shot of Picnic lakes. The lower one is completely snow, and the upper has only a tiny bit of water showing.

What Ineous looks like. I need to go back and hit that soon.

A shot from the bottom after ripping my line. If you look carefully, you can see that I made about 4 turns the whole way down.

May 20 2007 12:46AM

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where is that? like located near etc...

May 20 2007 11:00PM

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a bit north of bigfork

May 21 2007 12:34AM

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looks sick

May 21 2007 12:42AM

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For all those who want to go, the FHS Alpine club is doing a skinning/skiing/boarding/ (?sledding?) trip for those who want to hit up some snow on Sunday, June 3. We will meet at the Echo Lake Café at 10:00 am.

May 24 2007 1:05AM

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will it still be good the next weekend?

May 26 2007 1:39AM

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For sure. I have had complete lines on the back of Ineous in August.

May 26 2007 9:33PM

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i will go if there is a weekend you are going since i dont know my way around back there

May 29 2007 2:23PM

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REMEMBER! THIS COMING SUNDAY, WE ARE GOING! Meet at 10am in the parking lot at the Echo Lake Cafe, and we will go from there.

May 31 2007 12:19AM

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i would go but thats the day after my graduation

May 31 2007 12:28AM

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Me too. Great way to get outside after sitting around all day.

May 31 2007 12:50PM

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i am staying up till 4 am sunday morning for the senior party. i dont think i want to drive 4 hours and ski after that. believe i would love to go though

Jun 1 2007 1:18AM

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I am also going to the senior party, but I am definitly going skiing.

I went up today, but didn't do any skiing because I got to where you can park right now, and realized I had no water. I was not very happy about that...

Jun 1 2007 1:59AM

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And so, to avenge the loss of yesterday, today I returned with 2 waterbottles.

The snow is a bit further up the road, but I parked in the same place, which felt really annoying at the end of the day because I had to go 1/4 mile on a dirt road in ski boots.

This is Ineous' summit and north face at the moment:

Looking north towards columbia falls.

A bit of cornice came down sometime in the last week or so. I was pretty sketched about this, but nothing happened while I was there and I was a long way back from the edge.

Me on the summit

My rad line of, oh, 5 turns?

And the place that would be amazing to build a jump on Sunday ( with added graphics for your viewing pleasure)

Sunday will be rad!

Jun 2 2007 12:51AM

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JUNE 3rd.

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Jun 9 2007 1:01AM

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Ben (amonieve) and I went up today. Ben basically straightlined the face and then ate a ridiculous amount of shit at the bottom, partially snapping his board and screwing up his ankle. Pics later.

Jun 10 2007 12:57AM

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Jun 10 2007 1:37AM

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Some lines we skied:

Jun 10 2007 2:39PM

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dave that looks sick, i need to get up there asap

Jun 11 2007 12:16AM

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these pictures are sweet! thats what i need to be doing. the only skiing ive done this month is scrape together some of the snow that fell this past week and build a sketchy little kicker. fun, but not like these shots.

Jun 11 2007 3:36PM

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As the snow melts, the lines only get more interesting because of the rocks that start to appear. Come on up and join the fun.

Jun 12 2007 2:09PM

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is that all up by glacier?

Jun 12 2007 2:28PM

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how long does it take you to hike that shit?

Jun 13 2007 1:46AM

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Ben and I can make it up that face in about 25 min or so. The hike in is about 2hrs, but so worth it. And don't forget the jump and pond skim possibilities too.

Jun 13 2007 9:58PM

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david i might ahve to come adn visit you one day!

Jun 14 2007 2:15AM

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Yes! Come!

And LMP and friends as well as amonieve and friends and I will be heading up on Saturday. It will be epic!

Jun 15 2007 12:14AM

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dude that trip was so epic! we made it home in 3 hours and 15 minutes and drew only managed to offend one person, when he asked a lady if she wanted to see a picture of his pregnant friend. i will try to upload some pics when i get a chance

Jun 17 2007 8:25PM

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CORNICE GETTING OWNED BY NONE OTHER THAN DAVID STEELE AND PAT TICE:

https://newschoolers.com/web/content/videos/id/145231/

Sep 5 2007 1:02AM

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Jea boys! That just made my day.

Sep 5 2007 11:41AM

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where is this?

Sep 6 2007 12:15AM

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the trail head is about 8 miles east of big fork, not sure how far we hiked but it took about 2 hours with ski gear on our back to get to that bowl

Sep 6 2007 12:48AM

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The cornice has its revenge here and owns me:

https://newschoolers.com/web/content/videos/id/145273/

Sep 6 2007 12:49AM

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where is big fork?

Sep 6 2007 1:43AM

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by Kalispell, i think that its on the north shore of flathead lake but i could be wrong

Sep 6 2007 11:00AM

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Bigfork is about 20 minutes south of Kalispell. The parking lot for Jewel Basin about an hour to 45 minutes from Bigfork, and then the hike up to Aneous is about 2 1/2 hours beyond that. Sick skiing though. In the winter, the road is only travelable on snowmobile.

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yes, i do believe that was alot of fun

Sep 7 2007 12:38AM

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hey, hows the road looking? how far up can you drive?

May 21 2008 10:45PM

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Who knows. I wonder if my grandparents flew over there the other day.....

May 22 2008 2:22AM

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im so stoked to get back to jewel basin. i bet this year it will be epic

May 22 2008 5:06PM

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As of yesterday, you can drive up to the big switchback (~ 1mi. from the trailhead). There was about a foot of new, wet snow up on radio ridge, that was sliding on some aspects as a wet slide. There is still lots of snow (looks like April or May snowpack).

Jun 9 2008 5:14PM

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sick dude, did you get to ski at all?

Jun 9 2008 8:18PM

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Yeah, it was raining at the car, so you had so suffer through the wet until you got up near the ridge, where the precip turned to snow. The snow on the backside was heavy, but still fast and creamy( we skied north of the radio tower), but the frontside back down to the car was pretty wet and sticky, but still fun.

Jun 9 2008 11:37PM

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thats sick, i want to get back up their this year. did you boot pack or skin up?

Jun 10 2008 12:53AM

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We skinned in. However, as of yesterday afternoon, there was like a foot of snow on the road, and you could only drive about 3-4 miles up. There was like 18" in the parking lot of new, dry snow-- this meant bonafide face shots in june.

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