Skiing in powder past my shoulders!
 

Well day two here at Big Sky and there was about 20" of powder on the upper part of the mountain. It was INSANE! Here you can clearly see my right pole and my left hand (black glove). Everything else covered by powder rushing over me.

http://www.scheides.com/albums/bigsk...1089.sized.jpg

A few more turns and I stopped, and the snow was past my knees!

http://www.scheides.com/albums/bigsk...1093.sized.jpg

More pics and high res here:
http://www.scheides.com/gallery/bigsky2007

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Holy crap! Looks like you are having a great time!! :banana:

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You should be snowboarding ;)

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I hate you........

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Dude, if you have room in your trip for an extra person next year PLEASE let me know. I'm dying to snowboard in some deep powder.

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Insert scareface reference here to "powder"

-A. Swift

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wow! looks awesome!

*hopes you have a search beacon in case you get lost in that powder* ;)

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Yeahhhh!!!! Hit that powder.:skiing:

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Me as well!!

Damn Ive never skied in anything like that! Looks like a blast!

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well I was wrong--it was 24" total for yesterday, and another 8" last night. 2-4" more expected through the day woot!

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Bastard. Actually we are supposed to get 3-7" today too. ;) Its fricking april!!

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It's snowing here in Moorhead also. Stupid cold fronts.

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I 2nd on the snowboarding in poweder. The sucky thing is when you slow down on a board you start to wobble. Kinda sucks but powder is sweet.

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No slowing down when you're on a 50 degrees slope! :D The steeps make the powder fun, and the powder makes the steeps fun!

My brother's girlfriend came with on this trip and unfortunately took a hard spill as she was learning to snowboard. She's now in a splint, and will have to have surgery and a full-arm cast when we get back to the cities :( She's in pain and upset, but still in overall good spirits. 45 here today so shit's getting melty!

Her and my bro, Ian:
http://www.scheides.com/albums/bigsk...1100.sized.jpg

A little cliff-jumping action:
http://www.scheides.com/albums/bigsk...1225.sized.jpg

More pics to come...

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Looks and sounds like you had fun!

I just got back from the Caribbean...hopefully you were able to drink as much as I was on your vacation ;)

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Just got back to my parent's place last night, soooo hung over. We had 2 cases of beer left to drink before we left and we ahhh, finished them between three of us! Quite a fun time. I'll post some more pics lata tonight.

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I just did Crested Butte in Colorado. There was so little snow some of it was turning brown. Turned around and went to Monarch. Got a full day of fresh powder :) I'm still sore from the crazies I was with taking me down the damn double blacks.

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When was this? I was out in the Grand Tetons, which isnt all that far from Big Sky in Feb. We spent most of the time snowmobiling, but I got my snowboarding in too. :)

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This was last week. Did you ride Jackson or Targhee? From the peak of Big Sky, you can see the peaks of the Tetons, it was a sweet view!

http://www.scheides.com/albums/bigsk...0590.sized.jpg

http://www.scheides.com/albums/bigsk...0610.sized.jpg

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Damn, how much do they have left for a base now? We went snowboarding at Targhee. It was about 40 degrees out then and all the snow was getting pretty slushy so it kind of sucked. I'm surprised they have much snow left.

On the snowmobiles we were all over in this area, we clocked in about 250 miles on the new sleds in 3 days. That was a blast, all that powder on sleds... Hell yeah! :)

Coming back to MN after a trip out west is kind of depressing though. Haha.