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Anyone heard of Bridger Bowl?

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Powder*Whore
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I am currently residing here in Salt lake going to college, but for the last 17 years of my life i have been a resident of Bozeman, Montana, and a skier of Bridger Bowl, since my young years. Just wondering if anyone has ever really herd of it, I have had more than I can count snorkel days their and will always think of it as my home mountain.
Nov 13 2007 5:49PM
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king.tubby
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yup, worked there 3 winters ago. first time i skied there,my first time ever skiing out west, there was about 25 inches of fresh. i had no idea how to ski powder but loved every minute of it. bridger is great.
Nov 13 2007 5:54PM
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Skipig25
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kind of go to MSU, so yeah
Nov 13 2007 5:55PM
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eheath
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Skied there from 7th-12th grade, less and less every year tho do to me getting into park. Bridger is amazing, best pow skiing ever, and powder stays for days.
Nov 13 2007 5:56PM
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ATLskier
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yes.  I plan to go there at some point in my life, hopefully soon
Nov 13 2007 6:29PM
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ChronicLines
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yeah son, ski there every weekend.  I get a free pass so it's pretty tight.
Nov 13 2007 6:32PM
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drewishish
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im yet to go there. im really looking forward to going there for the first time this winter.
ive been with in 3 hours for YEARS now, and just never made it.
Nov 13 2007 6:35PM
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TheButterHashira
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Heard they have awesome steeps and no gapers. I want to find out how true that is.
Nov 13 2007 6:36PM
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bigkicker
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lived in MT for 4 winters and never skied there and prob never will
Nov 13 2007 7:04PM
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schmies
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Heard of it? NO, what is it a ski hill?
Nov 14 2007 12:49PM
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eheath
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100% true.
Nov 14 2007 12:57PM
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Tolz
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yeah dude!
Nov 14 2007 1:00PM
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ajax
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been up there twice this year, it's probably skiable right now
Nov 14 2007 1:07PM
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Billiards.
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I know people who love it. Ive been there in the summer months and definately wanna rip it sometime.
Nov 14 2007 1:13PM
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Skipig25
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maybe if you hike the ridge. it's kind of lacking on snow right now though, beartooth and sac are your best bets, but both a little icy
Nov 14 2007 1:19PM
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2bi40s
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Friend named Lee works there on avy duty.

Bridger Bowl is pretty well known otherwise.
Nov 14 2007 5:06PM
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4ReeL_
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bridger was alright nothing to special unless there was 20+in of fresh, got boring after 4 or 5 hrs
Nov 14 2007 5:12PM
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bdowning
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yeah i've heard of it, but its unfortunate Big Sky is in the same state
Nov 14 2007 5:19PM
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Aenigma
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I've been skiing there since I was five and the terrain still hasn't gotten boring yet.  There are way too many lines off the ridge for anyone to ski in a lifetime.
Nov 14 2007 5:21PM
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dan4060
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Heard lots of great stuff about Bridger.  One of the sickest mountains out there, great steeps, great snow.  MSU would be a great place to go to school.
Nov 14 2007 6:08PM
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Tmcchesney
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Personally i think it sucks unless you want to hike the ridge all day. The lifts are slow as hell, its only good if it snows a lot the night before, and everything besides the ridge gets skied out really quickly.
Nov 14 2007 6:50PM
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49rider
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almost went to msu, bozemans a sick town, and the one time i went to bridger it was tight.  so in response, i have heard of bridger bowl
Nov 14 2007 7:24PM
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tjski
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say what!!!?????

i havent skied there for years but its sick and like a miniature alta..except with boarders..........
Nov 14 2007 9:22PM
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evtic
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Ouch, this hurts me.
Nov 14 2007 11:00PM
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cmo
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skied bridger on a 34in day back in feb of last year..had the best day of my life...end of story
Nov 14 2007 11:36PM
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d.spong
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probably know the wilsons eh?
Nov 14 2007 11:42PM
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ChronicLines
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the who's?
Nov 15 2007 1:10AM
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bibs_skibum
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i skied it yesterday. long hike to get to good snow but overalll it was a pretty fun preseason day.  my window from the dorms faces right to the bridgers and its freakin beautiful.  oh by the way for you bozeman residents, theres a couple of rails set up behind roskie.  pretty small hits but fun as fuck.
Nov 15 2007 9:13AM
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ajax
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those rails are suprisingly fun, i'll probably be out there this evening
Nov 15 2007 6:30PM
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freeridinskier
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i skipped two exams that day, and that was definitly a good decision.
Nov 16 2007 12:03AM
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Will_B
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bridger is the best place ever. seriously, its one of those ski areas where you dont need a park to break up the day..just ski and find fun crap everywhere. its my home hill where i learned to ski and ive rarely, if ever, got bored.

great powder days too.
Nov 16 2007 12:20AM
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2bi40s
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yeah well i dropped out of a class so i could ski tracked out 10 inches of powder.

Nov 17 2007 10:40PM
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televback1
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same from bozeman, montana ski the ridge and bridger gully alot as well as apron bridger is sick
Nov 18 2007 1:14AM
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overthehead
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Yes.  bridger junkie right here.


Could you have guessed by the name?
Dec 28 2007 12:48AM
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Sam_rydell39
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Hey, I'm heading up there mid-February....anyone know how the season has been over there???
Jan 22 2008 8:18PM
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ajax
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I've had some good days there, but i was gone all christmas break and this is my first winter here, so i'm not sure how it compares to years past.
Jan 22 2008 9:01PM
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Literature
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 An awesome place to ski.

Killer old school vibe.
Jan 22 2008 10:10PM
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ChronicLines
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It's been pretty good so far.  Around 20 inches last week/ weekend.  Pretty sick.
Jan 22 2008 11:24PM
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overthehead
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no, its a really good thing because all the rich gapers go there, and Bridger is like a local's mountain
Jan 23 2008 1:20AM
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Caveman.
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hell yes i love that place, skied the phone booth a couple weekends ago and scared the shit out of myself
Jan 23 2008 1:34AM
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Calvin.
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Pierre's knob is where its at. Not very challenging runs, plus you can hit the south bowl.
Jan 23 2008 1:40AM
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Skipig25
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yea, it's doing real well so far as far as snow.
Jan 23 2008 1:41AM
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Calvin.
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*but* you can hit the south bowl.
Jan 23 2008 1:44AM
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freeridinskier
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i am convinced that nobody or very few skiers up there even know where the hell to go. Because I will ski up there on a deep day with all of the rest of bozeman and super long lines, and then come back two days later and still find powder stashes. sure, the north and south bowl are skied to shit but those two areas really are the only place that the hordes of people go. I also am convinced that, despite many very good skiers, the vast majority cant ski worth shit, which is probably why only lift served north and south bowl get totally skied out.  not that i am a bad ass skier, cuz i am not, but many people there are cruisin around with their hands at their side, knees not bent at all, and skiing the tails of their skis. maybe i just am noticing this because i was up there during msu bobcat ski day and all the college students that dont have passes were there. anyways enough of this, bb is sick
Jan 24 2008 1:06AM
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Aenigma
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You just gotta know where to go and you can ride powder for quite a while after a storm goes through.  Of course, the open gate policy makes this a lot easier for those who don't want to look as hard (FYI, it all SUCKS!)  I looooooove when people come here and just ski everything you access by not traversing or hiking, then go around telling their friends how much Bridger blows.  Because they're right hahaha.
Jan 24 2008 1:18AM
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Mykel
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Been skiing here for over a decade. Some fun stuff, but you really really have to know where to look, and have the endurance to hike. After 11-12 years I've skied pretty much every inch of that mountain in bounds. Sadly I won't be around next year to skied the new terrain they've been talking about opening for the ... well I remember ski patrol saying "next year or so" the first year I started skiing.
Jan 24 2008 2:27AM
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Sam_rydell39
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So if this is my first time there and i wanna hit some pow stashes that aren't in the north or south bowl where should i go????
Jan 26 2008 12:25AM
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Skipig25
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start on high-T
Jan 27 2008 11:12PM
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406
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sorry but i was there this weekend at it was the shittyest snow ive ever skiied, complete ice. i dunno if this was because i didnt know where the good spots were but it was really dissapointing
Jan 27 2008 11:27PM
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Skipig25
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nah, this weekend wasn't all that great. actually it was the first weekend I haven't gone since it opened and I've been here
Jan 27 2008 11:31PM
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406
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ya i thought it was terrible. i was talking to a kid on the chair and he said bridger got like 20 some inches just 3 days ago and i was shocked because the pow was just non existent(at least where i was skiin)
Jan 27 2008 11:43PM
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