April 29 - Bridger Bowl Deepness

It seems that Bridger always get a huge storm after the ski area shuts down. This year 42" fell in 48 hours. I dragged Katie out bed with promises of going out to breakfast after. Unfortunately, the rest of Bozeman had the same idea. As we skinned up, we saw lots of natural avalanche activity and chose a route that was both mellow (i.e. not steep enough to avalanche) and not in a major slide path (so no one else could bury us). As it happened, we saw a skier tirgger a small avalanche that came close to a skier below. Anyway, it had warmed up enough that the skiing wasn't epic, but whatever. Afterwards at breakfast, we were the only dirtbags in ski gear (and quite proud of it).

It was so deep that you couldn't reach the bottom, getting up after a fall was difficult. Katie demonstrates.