Cooke City Chronicle: January 2013

1/31/13

1/30/13

the Ghost effect

Ski touring over 10,000' today.!

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1/29/13

Surface Demo Fleet

Beartooth Powder Guides' quiver of Surface skis for friends and clients.

Lot's of appreciation! Please support Surface and grassroots ski culture.

1/28/13

No kidding. Skied right up on a Puma today. Maybe a once in a lifetime experience.
At about 9,000'. Very atypical for a cat this size to be cruising around amidst a 6 foot snowpack. I'd hypothesize that powder skiing with a mountain lion is directly correlated to the wolf pack we've seen around Cooke City the last couple weeks.

1/27/13

Backdoor line. 5pm.

"I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'" -K. Vonnegut

1/25/13

"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand." -Kurt Vonnegut

1/24/13

In case you are curious: we snapped a nine day sunny spell with 6-8" this morning. There's been wolves on a carcass down near Warm Springs (heard them howling while we were skiing). They're thinking about shutting down the Post Office. The school kids went on an animal-tracking field trip with the Good Doctor. I had a crampon fall off half way up an ice climb (2nd ing). And there were two moose on Broadway yesterday... So it goes.

1/23/13

1/22/13

Pebble Creek

1/21/13

1/19/13

The moon is not going anywhere.

Got about four miles north of town this morning, before the snowmachine decided to spew out all its antifreeze.. (so back to town we went)

Still skied a new route though.

1/18/13

field testing...

Stoked to have spent the last couple days working with the gear gurus of Patagonia.
(mad scientists)

It's pretty cool to hear "that was the best run of my life", from more than one..

(music to a backcountry ski guide's ears ;)

1/17/13

tracking

With a thriving ecosystem and an abundance of wildlife, there is no shortage of animal tracking to be done around here. I also find it quite entertaining to track fellow backcountry skiers and boarders. You know who skis with: scales, skinny skins, fat boards, who skis with which dogs, where they ski, how they ski, who they are, which way they are skiing, what they are probably thinking... (A perk of having a small ski community.)